Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, September 21, 1878
    A curious partnership is related as existing at Chelsea, Vt., where a turkey and a partridge are sharing a nest. The turkey continues to deposit her egg daily, although the partidge began to set after laying thirteen. During the occupation of the nest by the turkey the partridge attends to feeding.
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, October 12, 1878
    A big dog in Paris, Ky., is a friend of drunkards in need. Whenever he sees a staggering man, he sticks to him until home is reached, or watches at the wayfarer’s side if he falls in the gutter.
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Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, September 28, 1878
    A Georgia farmer smeared his hogs with tar to rid them of fleas, and turned them loose in the woods. At night they did not return to the pen as usual, and in the morning he found them stuck together, the tar making them adhere in a mass. They might have gone home, nevertheless, […]
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Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, July 25, 1898
The Faithful Animal Warns the Captain Just in Time to Avoid a Collision. Â Â Â Â Capt. Granlain, of a big lake liner, boasts of a first class seaman that never leaves the vessel or demands money for his service. This peculiar tar is known as “Bert.” He has no surname, as far as his fellow sailors […]
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Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, January 11, 1907
Meets Maine Youth on Forest Road and Hooks His Lamp. Â Â Â Â James Collins of Isle an Haut, Me., had a thrilling experience with a deer on a recent evening. Mr. Collins is a musician and at 7 o’clock left his home at Moore’s Harbor to go to a dance. When about halfway he saw a […]
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Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, May 29, 1880
    A young fox taken from a litter was placed with a litter of kittens at Watkinsville, Ga., a few days ago. The mother cat at once adopted it, and now evinces a much greater interest in it than in any of the rest of her family.
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 31, 1885
[Exchange.] Â Â Â Â Sledge-dogs need no urging with the whip when their instinct informs them that they are on unsafe ice. Â Â Â Â They flee onwards at the speed which alone can save and, as was experienced repeatly by Dr. Hayes, instead of keeping the sledges together in a compact body, they diverge and separate, so as […]
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Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, November 10, 1897
    Howard Reed, of Milford, Pa., started out hunting for partridges and woodcock and was followed by the house cat. All efforts on the part of the young hunter to drive the cat back home was futile; it was bound to go with him, and it illustrated its ability as a hunter by it’s “pointing” […]
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Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 14, 1885
[Exchange.] Â Â Â Â The Greeks and Romans did not know stirrups. The ancients had no saddles like ours, although a Monsieur Ginzrot tries to make out from Julius Caesar and other Roman writers, that they did sometimes employ a kind of frame like a saddle-tree, which was stuffed with wool or cloth, and then covered over […]
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Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 29, 1885
[Baptis Weekly] Â Â Â Â A sheperd once, to prove the quickness of his dog, who was lying before the fire in the house where we talking, said to me in the middle of a sentence concerning something else, “I am thinking, sir, the cow is in the potatoes.” Through he purposely laid no stress on these […]
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