Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Published in the Sangamon Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Friday, April 6, 1849
In one of the stored on Commercial wharf a lion lately received from Africa is kept in a cage. Yesterday, a small Irish boy, with his chip basket, wandered into the store, and in some way placed his basket against the bars of the cage. The lion, nothing loth to make a slight luncheon, seized […]
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Sunday, February 15, 1880
Where There Are 1,000 Cobras to the Square Mile-Remedy Worse Than the Bite. Times of India. The statistics show that during the last year the amount of rewards paid for the destruction of wild beasts and venomous snakes in British India was 99,189 rupees. As far as regards the destruction of wild beasts, the money […]
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Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Published in the Sangamon Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Thursday, October 21, 1847
A writer in the New York Dispatch, who professed to speak from “a degree of experience,” says: It takes a prairie horse a long time to appreciate the merits of grain-they snuff their noses at it in disdain, at first, and wonder what you mean by offering them white pebbles to eat. Having never been […]
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Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Published in the Sangamon Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Wednesday, November 22, 1848
Commence showing your friendship by rubbing the horse’s face with your hand, then snap and explode percussion caps with your hand, then snap and explode percussion caps with a pistol; let the horse frequently smell the powder and smoke, then you fire small reports, until all fear is removed, then overhead and behind the horse, […]
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Monday, December 10, 2012
Published in the Sangamon Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Wednesday, December 20, 1848
The Icelanders have a most curious custom, and a most effectual one, of preventing horses from straying, which is peculiar to that country. Two gentlemen for instance, are riding together without attendants, and wishing to alight for the purpose of visiting some object at a distance from the road, they tie the head of one […]
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Monday, December 10, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Thursday, August 21, 1845
We have heard a rumor of a very tragical occurrence in Washington county, Indiana. According to a statement made to us, a young couple in that county went to a house and were married last Thursday night, and a large number of persons, agreeably to a prevalent custom, surrounded the house with tin horns, etc. […]
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Saturday, December 8, 2012
Published in the Sangamon Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Thursday, July 3, 1845
At New Haven, yesterday morning, from 1,000,000 to 1,500,000 white fish, as nearly as could be estimated, were hauled ashore by Mr. Davidson & Russell’s seine, on the west side of the harbor. These fish weigh about three quarters of a pound each, and are used for manure by the farmers of adjacent towns, who […]
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Saturday, December 8, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Saturday, October 12, 1833
Instances of female heroism have been cited of late; but among them all we know of none more daring and praiseworthy than the following, which happened to come under our own observation. A young lady, teacher of a school in this town, on opening her school room a few days since, found to her great […]
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Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Thursday, April 17, 1845
The New Orleans Bee of March 10, says-“We learn by a gentleman who came passenger last evening on the steamer Princess, that the large male elephant of Messrs Hopkins & Co’s Menagerie, on Saturday morning killed the person who had been for some length of time employed to take charge of it. It appears that […]
Published in the Sangamon Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Thursday, July 17, 1845
A pleasant child just able to walk, wondered away from home and into a wolf den. The young wolves had just consumed a larger and commoner prey, and knew when they had enough: so they let the child be among them, and saved it for another day. The little creature stayed for the night, when […]