Friday, November 30, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, June 4, 1881
In Forepaugh’s Great Show, which is to exhibit here on Monday, June 13th, there will be presented the extraordinary spectacle of twenty elephants all performing in the arena at the same time. The Philadelphia News, alluding to this feature of Mr. Forepaugh’s show says: “This mighty herd of mastodons file into the grand amphitheater like […]
Friday, November 30, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, November 7, 1874
The contractors engaged on the Boston water-works, had a valuable cart-horse injured some time ago. The animal was led home to the stable, where about fifty horses were generally kept. The hostler had a water spaniel, who for some months had been among the horses in the stable, living on great terms of intimacy with […]
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, December 9, 1865
A cat is not generally considered a very teachable animal. But there is one in a store in Concord, N. H., that has been taught to cut with its teeth the twine with which packages are tied, and performs its work with much dexterity. It is even impatient to execute the feat before the package […]
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Thursday, November 29, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 19, 1881
A traveling party lost their dog at Leipzig, and ten days afterward, when at Berlin, about one hundred miles distant, the animal joined them again, ragged and gaunt. The dog had not before been over the road.
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Thursday, November 29, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, June 13, 1849
A short time ago, my host Stewart, of the Denton Hotel, purchased a rock fish weighing about sixty pounds. Upon opening it he found in it a certificate of membership of the Methodist Episcopal Church, which is as follows: Member Methodist E. Church, Founded A. D. 1784. Quarterly Ticket, 18 Our light affliction, which is […]
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Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, August 22, 1849
During the height of the fire on Monday morning, a woman was sitting near a fence, out of danger, surrounded by a few articles of furniture, and two fat pigs. She appeared perfectly unconcerned in regard to the progress of the fire, and was absorbed in scratching the backs of her pigs with a hoop-pole. […]
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Thursday, November 22, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, October 24, 1849
Chews Tobacco Like a Man. A friend has just related to us a curious fact in natural history respecting a dog. In North Attleboro, Mass. there is kept, in a manufacturing establishment, a large mastiff, who takes as much comfort with a quid of tobacco, as does the most inveterate lover of the weed. So […]
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Thursday, November 22, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Tuesday, November 27, 1849
The following fact occurred yesterday: A beautiful and high spirited horse would never allow a shoe to be put on his feet, or any person to handle his feet, without a resort to every species of power and means to control him. At one time he was nearly crippled by being put in the stocks; […]
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Thursday, November 22, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, December 5, 1849
Capt. Seabury, of the ship Minerva, which arrived at Lahaina on the 15th of August, reports hearing from the ship Alert, Green, in the first part of the season, who, being on the Tartary Coast, sent two boat’s crews in after wood. They not returning as expected, he sent a third boat, which was also […]
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Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, September 17, 1881
It is well known that geese and ganders become greatly attached to persons who habitually feed them and treat them kindly. But the attachment is seldom so great as that manifested toward an English miller who keeps a flock. The faithful creatures had repeatedly followed him a mile to the village on week days, when […]
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