Monday, December 10, 2012
Published in the Sangamon Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Wednesday, January 24, 1849
The Columbus Ohio State Journal relates the following incident: A good steed is a bad fix. One of our neighbors, Mr. J. L. Gill, called on us yesterday morning with an invitation to witness the exercise of certain powers of control over horses and other animals, possessed by a Mr. Fancher, now staying at the […]
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Monday, December 10, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, February 14, 1849
Mr. C. D. Trusdell, of Oregon City, has built a horse boat, of which the Spectator gives the following account:- The horse-boat Mr. Hellen, built and owned by C. D. Truesdell, Esq. left this city on the afternoon of the 27th inst; for Portland under charge of M. K. Kellogg, Esq., as master, and returned […]
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Monday, December 10, 2012
Published in the Sangamon Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Wednesday, February 28, 1849
On Tuesday last, we are informed, Mr. Clinton, of New York, accompanied by a lady of Niagara Falls, crossed the suspension bridge in a carriage drawn by a spirited horse from this place. On returning, when nearly in the center, or that part of the bridge torn up during the late dispute, their horse was […]
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Monday, December 10, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Wednesday, March 7, 1849
You may make any horse follow you in ten minutes; go to the horse, rub his face, jaw and chin, leading him about, saying to him. “come along,” a constant tone is necessary. By taking him away from other persons and horses, repeat the rubbing, leading and stopping. Sometimes turn him around, all ways and […]
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Saturday, December 8, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Thursday, March 16, 1848
This singular personage, says a late Nashville paper, has been in this city for several days, and his wonderful skill in the management and taming of horses hundreds can testify. A few experiments that I saw with my own eyes would satisfy the most incredulous. A few days since, in front of the Union Hall, […]
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Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, August 29, 1922
There are bees and flowers whose random meetings result in a curious phenomenon. On the single dahlias and gaillardinias of the garden, bees are often to be seen in a maudlin state and these bees are more frequently of the black and yellow banded kind. If you take such a bee off the gaillardia the […]
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Saturday, December 1, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, April 15, 1882
One of Barnum’s elephants sits in a chair, drinks from a bottle, wipes his mouth with a napkin, and then calmly fans himself. This entirely upset the gravity of Evangelist George Pentecost, who was one of the visitors to the quarters on a recent afternoon; and when he saw the napkin deftly picked from the […]
Saturday, December 1, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 19, 1865
A correspondent of an English paper transmits the following: On Sunday morning last I had the pleasure of witnessing a most interesting ceremony, which I desire to record for the benefit of your readers. Whilst walking with a friend in a garden near Falkirk, we observed two bees issuing from one of the hives, bearing […]
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Saturday, December 1, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, May 28, 1881
A traveler from Pekin to Siberia, across the great desert of Gobi, tells us that whenever a camel’s feet have become tender and sore from long marches, the poor creature lies down. His driver knows at once that his feet hurt him, and looks to find out if the thick skin of the feet is […]
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Friday, November 30, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Sunday, August 20, 1843
A moving incident, illustrative of the extraordinary strength, as well as the attachment of the Arab horses, is given by Lamartine, in his beautiful travels in the East: “An Arab Chief, with his tribe, had attacked in the night a caravan of Damascus, and plundered it; when loaded with their spoils, however, the robbers were […]
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