Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Daily News, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, November 10, 1919
An Australian correspondent describes “a dinkum stand-up fight” between buck hares. “They prop upright on their hind legs and box with their front paws, sparring, ducking, uppercutting in pugilistic fashion, fur flying in all directions. When one pugilist gets winded or passed out he falls on his back and skies his tail.
Monday, September 24, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, November 9, 1878
Capt. Edwards, of the fishing smack Amelia, reports that when off “Skunnett,” on the Rhode Island shore, he discovered an object swimming off his bow, which he finally made out to be a horse. He made sail, but could not overhaul the animal, which was making desperate struggles to reach the mainland three miles away. […]
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Monday, September 24, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, November 30, 1921
Attempt to Colonize the Animal Was Not a Success-Marked Intelligence Shown by Them. A hundred years ago it was thought that the mountain forests of Great Britain might be colonized by raindeer from Lapland, and an account was given in 1821 in an issue of the Observer. London, of the extraordinary sagacity displayed by them […]
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Friday, September 21, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, March 16, 1878
Three of the crew of the steamship Intrepid, Captain Soutar, had a very exciting adventure at the Greenland sea fishery this season. During the time that their vessel was fast beset among the ice, three of the crew-Thomas Royall, Wolverhampton, James Winter, Peterhead, and William Mulligan, Dundee-set out one day to pay a visit to […]
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Friday, September 21, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 12, 1878
1. Let your colt be domesticated and live with you from his tenderest age, and when a horse he will be simple, docile, faithful, and inured to hardship and fatigue. 2. Do not beat your horses, nor speak to them in a loud tone of voice; do not get angry with him, but kindly reprove […]
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Monday, September 17, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinpos on Saturday, December 8, 1877
Our first pet was a monkey, bearing the not uncommon name of “Jocko.” He was a small creature, very scantily provided with hair, very ugly, but so intelligent that his appearance was voted to be beneath consideration. The little thing was sent to us when quite young, and as he grew, surrounded by children, he […]
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, July 28, 1877
Three weeks ago a gentleman of this city purchased a fine, high-bred mare in Boston, and, as she was being led to the depot in that city, she became frightened and started at full speed, coming in contact with a horse car and next with a doctor’s chaise, and fell with great violence upon the […]
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Thursday, September 13, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 10, 1877
Van Amburgh could handle his lions and tigers with impunity. No animal will fail to respond to kindness and uniform good treatment. And especially will the noble horse respect and faithfully serve a master who deals gently and kindly with him. We have ourselves taken a spirited Morgan mare which had been rudely handled and […]
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Thursday, September 13, 2012
Published in the Waukegan DailySun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, March 31, 1922
Muskrats force themselves occasionally upon one’s attention in India by their habit of entering a bungalow and ambling slowly round the rooms, talking loudly to themselves all the time in a chattering voice. Although ratlike, the muskrat is not really a rat, but a large shrew, protected by an extreme degree of offensive odor like […]
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Since it has been generally conceded that the fish which foundered Captain Larsen’s bark, Columbia, in mid-ocean, by thumping a big hole in her port bow must have been a whale, popular interest in the accident has palpably decreased. In truth, it was hardly more the strange disaster itself than the possibility of a new […]
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