Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, April 24, 1869
The buffaloes found in the telegraph poles of the overland line a new source of delight on the treeless prairie-the novelty of having something to scratch against. But it is expensive scratching for the telegraph company, and there indeed was the rub, for the bison shook down miles of wire daily. A bright idea struck […]
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, June 29, 1878
That trim, gentle-looking, drab-colored bird, erroneously called turtledove by dwellers in the United States, and generally deemed so utterly innocent and pure that to kill it for the table or any other use is branded as heinous in the extreme, is not so innocent after all. Its moaning, sad-sounding, voice is a mockery and a […]
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Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 17, 1878
Walking carelessly through their haunts I strewed some grain upon a suitable place, on which I dug with my knife a few round holes about four inches deep. Coming back to the spot in half an hour, I dropped grain into each hole, and left a noose round one of them, concealed with earth. The […]
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, October 4, 1879
That whales have found for themselves a northwest passage, is proven by the fact that whales have been captured in the North Pacific having harpoons that were thrown into them on the other side of the continent, says the San Francisco Bulletin. Captain Bauldry, of the Helen Mar. took a right whale having in it […]
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Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, December 27, 1879
He Captured Two Large Eagles, One Alive and the Other Dead. Kansas City Journal. T. W. Wright, the well-known taxidermist, had quite a novel experience, Tuesday, which was not altogether without danger, but he was so fortunate as to escape injury, and his two trophies of his skill and prowess as momentous of the event. […]
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Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 23, 1879
A remarkable attachment sprang up between a white camel and an elephant belonging to John Robinson’s circus. When the company started from Texas, considerable beating was required to force the camel on board the steamer, at which the elephant showed great anger, and frightened a crowd badly by rushing to the scene. After they reached […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 30, 1879
“Jimmy-the-Duck,” of Virginia City, Nev., is dead. He made his living by a queer invention. He used to put a duck in a box with its head sticking out of a hole, and allow the crowd to throw clubs at it for 25 cents a throw, the bird belonging to whoever should hit it. The […]
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Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, June 26, 1880
English land-owners who cannot obtain a satisfactory rental for their farms are turning them into great rabbit warrens. About 10,000 rabbits, recently killed on an estate in Essex, brought thirty-seven cents each in the market.
Saturday, August 18, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, March 3, 1899
Dashes Madly Through Streets of an Ohio Town with Burden. The citizens of Mononcue, Ohio, were out the other day hunting for a big panther that has terrorized the residents of that locality. For weeks past the farmers have missed fowl and young animals. In the snow, tracks of a strange animal had been seen, […]
Saturday, August 18, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 26, 1876
Residents of Boston and vicinity have been excited by the operations of a man who has been killing fish at Quincy Point, Mass., by the explosion of nitro-glycerine. Large numbers of sea-bass have of late appeared off the Glades, and in the waters around Quincy Point, and it was upon these that the man made […]
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