Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 10, 1877
The Montreal Witness contains the following: Yesterday evening a reporter for a morning contemporary was engaged writing up his items, when he suddenly and quite unintentionally furnished an item himself. He was so engrossed in describing the mysteries of the Police court, that he did not notice an ancient and wise-looking rat who was out […]
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Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, April 28, 1877
It is not often that we hear any credit rendered to the cat for either intelligence or affection, and it is therefore pleasing to be able to record an instance in which one if not both of these qualities is shown in a remarkable manner in this animal. A gentleman writing from India recently to […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, June 9, 1877
While at the residence of Almon Webb in the township of Antioch the other day, we witnessed a somewhat novel spectacle, it being nothing less than the caressing of a pair of young coons by a cat which had adopted them. Some two or three weeks since someone in the neighborhood killed an old coon […]
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Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 4, 1877
At Volo, the other day,we saw Mr. Carpenter, the village blacksmith, fitting wooden shoes to a pair of horses to enable them to work upon swampy land. Each shoe consists of a block of wood about 8 inches square, the calks fitting into the wood and a bail passing over the foot and fastening it […]
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Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, July 7, 1877
Yesterday afternoon the writer witnessed a strange sight in the record office. Our attention was attracted by several lusty squeaks from the inside of a pail, almost full of water into which a half-grown mouse had fallen. The alarm had hardly died away before four or five more mice appeared on the scene, and began […]
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Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, July 14, 1877
Last week a man named Selden Hanscom, who lives in Chatham, Carroll county, rode to a neighbors to get two small pigs, carrying them home in a basket in his wagon. On the way home, at about 10 o’clock in the evening, he saw an animal beside the road which he at first thought was […]
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Published in the Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Sunday, August 4, 1878
Unless the Brazilians are guilty of very large story-telling, the snake they call the surucucu is braver far more than the buffalo, for it is averred that, if a fire be kindled in the woods, these creatures glide out of their hiding-places, dash straight at the obnoxious thing, and scatter its embers with their tails; […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, September 8, 1877
During the recent severe fire on the big meadow below Plover, the water in Buena Vista creek became so heated that large numbers of its fish died. One account says that barrels of them were picked out by the people, who went there for that purpose. This is probably the first instance on record where […]
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Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, September 1, 1877
The fox which Mr. Fairgrieves now has occupies a yard back of the store, to which Mr. Fairgrieves’ dog has free access. The dog and fox are great friends. They frolic together, play “no end” of jokes on each other, and live in the most perfect harmony, save at ‘meal time.” The discussion that a […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 1, 1879
    Capt. Kennedy, a resident of Nucees county, Texas, owns a tract of land containing 350 square miles, on which are pastured 45,000 cattle, 15,000 horses and mules, and 7,000 hogs.