Sunday, February 26, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, November 24, 1922
    It is not generally known that wild cats are still found in parts of Scotland and are extremely fierce. They make their homes in rocks and hollow trees. At one time they were found all over England, but , like snakes, they have not been seen in Ireland.
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Sunday, February 26, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 22, 1857
    A yellow bear has been seen in the region of Lake Superior, supposed to be a cross of the polar and black bear, and as large as two of the common black species. One of the cubs of this bear was taken by the Indians, and by them carried to Green Bay, where his […]
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Sunday, February 26, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 24, 1866
    A horse came home without a driver, but instead of going directly to the stable, stopped at the house, neighed, and exhibited other indications of great disquietude. This, at first, excited no attention; but, as these manifestations continued, and his master did not appear, apprehesion was excited, and a person dispatched in search of […]
Sunday, February 26, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, November 15, 1856
    The Belvidere Standard says there was a wagon belonging to an emigrant that lately made its appearance in that place, drawn by fourteen yoke of oxen. That would be called quite a team in the old country.
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Friday, February 17, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, September 24, 1859
    Anecdotes of animals serving to show their intelligence or the extent of their reasoning powers, are always interesting. Here is a very curious one:     A large dog had been accustomed to get bits of money from his master to go to a meat stall to get his lunch of fresh meat. One day […]
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Friday, February 17, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, May 7, 1859
    The cook of a French nobleman whose chateau was in the south of France, had a monkey, which was allowed the free range of the kitchen, and which was so intelligent, that by pretty severe training its natural propensity to mischief had been subdued, and was even taught to perform certain useful services, such […]
Friday, February 17, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, December 11, 1858
    Various interesting facts have been noted in relation to the demeaner of animals pior to a great convulsion. It was towards noon, beneath a clear and almost cloudless sky, with the sea breeze freshly blowing, that the cities of Conseption and Talcahuano, on the coast of South America, were desolated in 1835. At ten […]
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, May 10, 1918
    A circus man, caught in the act of curing an elephant of a cold, was dared to take his own medicine. He declined, but invited the interviewer to return the next day and see the elephant cured. And the next day the elephant was rid of the cold. The keeper placed a bucket of […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 19, 1871
    Chafauqua Lake, N. Y., has lately been infested with a great plague of flies. For some days they have gathered around the shores at Mayville in such quanities as to darken the landscape. They are very short lived, and on one morning two and a half baskets of dead flies were swept from the […]
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Published in the Waukrgan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 1, 1879
    A cat bit Mrs. Crittenden of Middletown, Conn., two years ago. She was strangely ill for a time, and has since been almost helpless, her nervous system being thoroughly disarranged. She cannot speak without stammering, and some of her symptoms are like those of hydrophobia in a mild form.
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