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Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 13, 1877
‘It was early in the morning-not, however before the snakes, which were in a series of wire-covered boxes, were awake and lively- that we were shown” said a correspondent, “into a stone floored room some twenty feet long and twelve broad. In the boxes were the strongest and deadliest snakes in India: pythons, ophiophagi, cobras, […]
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Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 13, 1877
A farmer of York recently set a trap to catch a cunning fox which had been annoying him considerably by its midnight visits among the poultry. At fourteen successive visits to it he found the trap sprung, a stick of wood between its jaws, and the bait eaten up. The circumstance, so often repeated, surprised […]
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Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 27, 1877
Gilbert White tells a most dramatic story of a neighbor who had lost most of his chickens by a sparrow-hawk that came gliding down between a faggot pile and the end of his house, to the place where his coop stood. The owner, vexed to see his flock diminishing hung a net between the pile […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, September 28, 1878
    It is a remarkable fact, says the London Times, that a taste for gaming appears in some cases to pervade a whole people, and to become one of the chief national characteristics. Nowhere is this more manifest than among the inhabitants of the Asiatic Islands. Games of hazard are the favorites of these islanders. […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, August 12, 1898
    Among the enthusiastic patriots uptown the other day was a man who owns a handsome spaniel and one good at retrieving. This man, reports the Philadelphia Record, began his celebration by throwing a pack of small firecrackers into the street and before the first one had a chance to explode the dog rushed out […]
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Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Sunday, October 6, 1878
       One of the plagues of Egypt has visited several districts in County Derry, Ireland. A fly, hitherio unknown, but almost the size of a house-fly, has appeared in such vast numbers as to fill the air like mist. They molest the animal kingdom alone, awarming about horses, cattle and men, and inflicting a venomous […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, August 8, 1898
    The North China Herald says that a curious phenomenon was witnessed recently at daybreak upon the opening of the Chlangmen gate of Soochow. Some 4,000 or more rats of all sizes were seen to file out of the gates, showing no fear of the country people who were flocking to sell their market produce […]
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Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, July 20, 1898
Species of Huge and Voracious Reptiles Haunt Swamps of Pennsylvania. Â Â Â Â A species of bird-eating frog infests the swamps in Susquehanna county, Pa. These huge croakers have also proved destructive to young chickens, says the New York Press. Â Â Â Â A few days since a farmer named Wainwright, of Herrick, had his attention called to the […]
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Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, July 18, 1898
A Maryland Man Comes to the Rescue of One of the Birds Held Prisoner by the Reptile. Â Â Â Â Benjamin Rust, of Chestertown, Md., gives an interesting account of a combat between a large snapping turtle and a vast number of crows, which he witnessed a few days ago. While noted for his shyness, the crow […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, March 19, 1898
    Last Friday a fat porker about to be slaughtered in Salem township, created more commotion that is often found in comic opera. Mr. and Mrs. F. McKnight were at Calvin Edmundson’s and the family attempted to kill a 350 pound hog. It was shot two or three times without avail, when the hog took […]
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