Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Saturday, March 9, 1839
A courier relates the following incidence of canine sagacity:-An instance of canine sagacity occurred in this city a few evenings since, which deserves to be recorded. A dog belonging to a merchant in State street, having been shut out of the counting room, was heard pawing and rubbing against the door for a long time, […]
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Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, July 23, 1881
We all know the nursery story of the tailor who pinched the elephant’s trunk when the intelligent animal was soliciting sweets through Snip’s open casement, and how the wise beast, on returning the same route soon afterward, regaled the tailor with a shower of muddy water she had carefully sucked up from the roadside, just […]
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Saturday, June 29, 1833
Leibnitz tells of a dog in Germany, that could distinctly pronounce thirty words. Goldsmith informs us that he once heard a raven whistle the tune of the Shamrock, with great distinctness, truth and humor.
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 22, 1881
One of the wealthiest and most eccentric nobleman in Europe, Prince Joseph Sulkowski, Duke of Bielitz, arrived at Copenhagen a few days ago, on his way to Norway, where he proposes to spend the winter in bear hunting. He was accompanied by a numerous suite, consisting of a highly salaried lady companion, a maitre de […]
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, February 9, 1899
Miss Ellen Walker, Near Chamberlain S. D., Captures Big Animal With a Running Noose. Miss Ellen Walker, who owns a stock ranch a few miles north of Chamberlain, S. D., has brought in the scalp of a large timber wolf which she captured herself. All fall she has been troubled with this wolf, which was […]
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Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 23, 1919
A cat belonging to a young lady residing in North street, St. Andrews, Scotland, went missing. A search was made, and the loss was advertised, and all hope of the return of puss was given up. After the cat had been absent for 24 days a maid, on cleaning the drawing room of the house […]
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Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 23, 1919
In nearly every army race meeting held in France during the war there was provision for a mule race. Some mules, a London Times correspondent says, were remarkably fast and handy, while others were satisfactory so long as it was a straight course. At one meeting of the Picquigny course the distance was four furlongs, […]
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Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Saturday, May 11, 1833
From the Galenian. I was bit by a snake and in fifteen minutes my foot swelled to double its size, and in fifteen minutes more, my foot was entirely cured, by putting it into a large bucket of new milk. If the orifices are not well opened by the snake’s teeth, open them with an […]
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Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Saturday, May 4, 1833
A hawk confined in a cage and placed in the garden or field is found to be much more service to frighten away birds than other scare crows, including a sleepy boy.
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Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Saturday, September 20, 1834
Howes’ New York Menagerie was in town last week. The keeper’s familiarity with the Lions and Tigers when enclosed with them in their cages, is hardly a safe business after all. Few men have the nerve deliberately to “beard the lion in his den,” and rarely, since the days of Sampson, do we find one […]