Monday, December 31, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal-, Springfield,Illinois on Saturday, November 23, 1833
Elephants are now used in Ceylon for plowing the rice fields, and in preparing new grounds for the cultivation of coffee, pepper, Etc. An elephant will perform the work in one day which twenty bullocks [oxen] were in the habit of performing before.
Monday, December 31, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal-, Springfield,Illinois on Saturday, August 17, 1833
The earliest account of a animal of this general description is furnished by Pantoppidan, Bishop of Bergen in Norway, and author of an old Natural History, in the first editions of which is a picture of the serpent. This gives him a mane-an appearance doubtless caused by his rapid motion through the water. He says, […]
Sunday, December 30, 2012
Published in the Sangamon Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Saturday, December 21, 1833
Several years ago, a farmer in Scotland kept a gander, which not only had a great trick of wandering himself, but also delighted to lead forth the geese to play truant and stray among forbidden fields. Wishing to check this vagrant habit, the farmer one day seized the gander, just as he was about to […]
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Sunday, December 30, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Thursday, December 15, 1831
It is mentioned in a late Philadelphia U. S. Gazette, that one of the men employed to clear the streets of swine, had taken a noble porker, but while engaged in tying the legs of the prisoner, the bristly-back animal seized the victor by the nose, and nearly destroyed that prominent member.
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Saturday, December 29, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Thursday, May 15, 1845
The New Haven [Conn.] Courier relates the following interesting incident, which occurred a few years since in one of the villages of Connecticut: “A young lady, confined to the house by protracted indisposition, was in the habit of feeding a sparrow, which had a nest on a tree near the door, with crumbs of bread. […]
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Saturday, December 29, 2012
Published in the Sangamon Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Thursday, June 5, 1845
We see, by our French contemporary, that two Englishmen in Belgium have formed a company to run a letter express on the railroad, by harnessing greyhounds to light cars and suspending bits of meat before them by a rod extending forward from prodigious velocity, and have the advantage over engines, of giving out no cinders […]
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Friday, December 28, 2012
Published in the Sangamon Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Thursday, July 13, 1848
The journal of Commerce, speaking of a large haul of fish recently made in the East River, near N. Haven, states the number to have been two millions, while many estimated the number at three or four millions. This is no ordinary fish story, as some of the incredulous editor may suppose. It has been […]
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Friday, December 28, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Thursday, November 28, 1844
While the ships of England and America are coursing the oceans in pursuit of guano, I would call the attention of our agriculturists, to a manure of similar origin, and possessing the same properties, that abounds in many places in their own forests; which may be had for the labor of collecting. I allude to […]
Friday, December 28, 2012
Published in the Sangamon Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Thursday, October 14, 1847
In a quarter of the town of Hingham, known as Rockynook, there is a pond where a little girl not six years old, who resides near the bank, has tamed the fish to a remarkable degree. Gradually the fish learned to distinguish her footsteps, and darted to the edge whenever she approached; and now they […]
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Friday, December 28, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Saturday, August 11, 1832
The Captain of a trading vessel, who now resides at Brighton, picked up lately a dog at sea, more than twenty miles from land. This circumstance may throw some light on the fact of dogs, which have been sent to France or Ireland from England, finding their way back. The present earl of L….., sent […]
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