Saturday, December 15, 2012
Published in the Sangamon Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Thursday, September 18, 1845
The Quincy Whig says that it is assured by a gentleman of veracity, that a cat-fish weighing two-hundred and two pounds, was caught from the steamboat Falcon, on her passage from Galena-and that on being opened a pig of lead weighing 70 pounds was found in its stomach; and what is still more singular, the […]
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Friday, December 14, 2012
Published in the Sangamon Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Saturday, November 23, 1833
An occurrence which took place under our own observation, adds another to the thousand instances of devoted and untiring fidelity of the dog to the human species. An old negro who lived in an adjoining county, owned a dog, which during the whole course of his life had probably never had the benefit of a […]
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Thursday, December 13, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Saturday, October 26, 1833
On Monday the cars on the Camden and Amboy rail road were started for the first time with a locomotive engine. From Amboy to Bordentown the cars went over finely, and back as far as Heightstown. There an unlucky hog got under the traveller of the locomotive, and in endeavoring to run out between the […]
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Thursday, December 13, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Saturday, October 26, 1833
It is said that a lady near Galena this season has found between 50 and 60 bee trees.
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Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, August 16, 1848
A few days before the overthrow of Robespierre, a revolutionary tribunal had condemned to death am ancient magistrate who was a most estimable man. His faithful dog, a Water Spaniel, was with him when he was seized; but was not suffered to enter the prison. He took refuge with a neighbor of his master’s, and […]
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Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Published in the Sangamon Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Wednesday, August 23, 1848
A writer in a Cincinnati paper, describing a midnight visit to the animals of Raymond and Waring’s menagerie, in the winter quarters in that city with Driesbach, the famous keeper, says: “It was a sight worth walking ten miles. We found, contrary to assertions of natural historians, an elephant lying down. It has always been […]
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Wednesday, November 22, 1848
Astley’s method was to give each horse his initiatory lesson alone, and when there was no noise or any thing to direct his attention from his instructor. If the horse was interrupted during the lesson, or his attention in any way withdrawn, he was dismissed for that. When perfect in certain lessons by himself, he […]
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Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Published in the Sangamon Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Wednesday, February 14, 1849
A novel exhibition was presented in Washington street, Boston, and on the neck yesterday, which drew off attention for a time from the racers. Herr Driesbach made his appearance in an elegant sleigh with his pet tiger by his side; not the tiger of English comedies, but a bona fide four-legged tiger. He seemed to […]
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Friday, April 6, 1849
The editor of the Manchester Democrat tells of a man who had a large nose, and who in crossing a corner of Lake Winnipisiogee to reach the wood where he was chopping, cut a hole through the ice for the purpose of quenching his thirst. A large trout, mistaking, for some tempting prize, the nose […]
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Monday, December 10, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Thursday, July 17, 1845
The Richmond Whig says that there is a “horse tamer” in that city, who professes to be in possession of a secret which enables him to tame the wildest horse. The Whig gives this account of an experiment he made in Richmond on Thursday: “The experiment was performed at the circus. The exhibition to the […]
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