Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Saturday, November 26, 1836
“That half reasoning brute,” as he is somewhat disparingly characterized, was on board the Royal Jar steamboat, and when the flames approached him, jumped overboard, and swam two miles to a neighboring Island, where he comfortably and quietly installed himself in a barn. He was followed by a little pony also belonging to the Menagerie. […]
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Saturday, December 3, 1836
From the Claremont [N. H.] Eagle. There is not a cow, we believe, in this county, of the same age that will begin to compare in size with the one in this town, belonging to Mr. Luther E. Stevens. She is only five years old, and upon being driven into the village last week, weighed […]
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Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Tuesday, May 27, 1879
A correspondent of the Pall Mau Gazette at Lisbon vouches for the truth of the following narrative, which he translates from the Dario de Notiolas: “At the distance of one kilometer from the village of Fratel, near Niza [i. e. on the frontier of Spain and Portugal, near the Town of Portalegre], Theresa Maria, who […]
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Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicag, Illinois on Sunday, December 7, 1873
From the Boston Transcript. Along the line of the Grand Trunk Railroad, between the Island Pond station and the French Village of Conticook, in Canada, a distance of 18 miles, the country is an almost unbroken forest, and wild animals are frequently seen beside the road staring in wonder at the passing train, while deer, […]
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, March 9, 1894
A Scotchman, who evidently as patient as he is ingenious, has trained two little mice to spin thread with an apparatus of which he is the inventor. The mechanical principle of the contrivance is a small mill, which is operated by the paws of the mice. They can each wind on and off per day […]
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Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, April 9, 1881
A robin with a broken wing fell into the hands of a twelve-year-old New Hampshire boy. He took it home and cared for it in a vacant attic till it was able to fly, when he took it out in a basket a mile away in the woods and set it free. the next spring […]
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Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Published in the Kaskaskia Intelligencer, Kaskaskia, Illinois on Wednesday, December 23, 1818
A most singular circumstance took place lately at Knightsbridge Barracks:-One of the first troops of Life Guards observer, in cleaning his horse, that the animal seemed particularly fond of having his face and head continually rubbed, in doing which the soldier discovered something moveable as he pressed the cheek of the horse. He accordingly communicated […]
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Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illiniois on Saturday, November 15, 1879
We received a turtle a few days since which had marked on his back the date of 1709, and also the Spanish coat-of-arms, indicating one hundred and seventy-nine years ago. What changes this old fellow of the deep has seen? The rise and fall of empires, and the continent on which he partly lived emerged […]
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, December 6, 1879
New York Times. Fourth Officer, F. G. Rowell, of the steamship Anchoria, of the Anchor line, which arrived at this point from Glasgow, late Sunday evening, says that on Thursday last, while on the Newfoundland banks, he saw a sea-serpent which he estimates to have been fully as long as the steamship. According to “Lloyd’s […]
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 22, 1879
Two gentlemen who were passing a house in Worchester, Mass., recently, were attracted by a large Newfoundland dog, which kept running toward them and then returning in the direction of a pond in the grove, where something was evidently wrong. They followed the dog to the pond were they found another dog in the water, […]
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