Friday, December 16, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 5, 1878
    “Old Frank” is a hunting dog that used to hang around the newspaper offices of St. Joseph, Mo. Mr. Joseph Crane took “Old Frank” to his house. Mr. Crane had an old hen, with seven or eight chickens that had been hatched out a couple weeks. For some cause the unnatural mother deserted her […]
Friday, December 16, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, December 29, 1877
    The Meriden [Ct.] Republican tells this story: “One cold morning last week Dr. Wilson drove up to a house on Crown street, and left his horse without hitching it. The horse waited a few moments, and, his master not returning, he began to dance a double shuffle, presumably to get his feet warm. Finding […]
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Thursday, December 15, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, December 1, 1877
     One of the great industries of Burma is the timber trade. The teakwood, which is the chief timber cut and shipped, is very heavy and requires prodigious force too handle it; and, as the Burmese are not far enough advanced to use machinery for the purpose, they use elephants, and bravely do the noble […]
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, November 24, 1877
    The Virginia [Nev] Enterprise tells this affecting story: “Charles Kaiser, who has the only hive of bees in town, says that when he first got his swarm his old cat’s curiosity was much excited in regard to the doings of the little insects the like of which she had never before seen. At first […]
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, December 22, 1877
    One day last week a deer was chased from the mountain into Jackson’s river, closely followed by a pack of hounds. The deer crossed the river and jumped into a field near by, belonging to A. T. Stephenson, Esq. A small. mischievous mule was grazing in the field, and, as soon as he spied […]
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, September 29, 1877
Clever Dogs. Â Â Â Â Shot was a very intelligent and well behaved retriever, belonging to a gentleman at Doneaster. By kindness and patience he had been tought to do many clever tricks. On one occasion he earned a nice sum of money by performing at a bazaar for the benefit of the poor people in the […]
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Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, October 27, 1877
    Mile. D., a good and worthy lady, who lived in a country house in the neighborhood of Columbier, had a dog of special intelligence. He was of the race of poodles, which, everybody knows, is remarkably sagacious. When Mile. D., passed the evening with ladies of her acquaintance in Columbier as so often happened, […]
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Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, October 20, 1877
    Two ostriches harnessed to a wagon can pull a load of 1,000 pounds, and all the care they need is a pail of water, two or three old bones, and a hod of brick.
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, September 29, 1877
    A swallow’s nest, built in the west corner of a window facing the north, was so much softened by the rain beating against it, that it was rendered unfit to support the superincumbent load of pretty, full grown sparrows. During a storm the nest fell into the lower corner of the window, leaving the […]
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Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, March 25, 1876
    A story comes from Fairfield, Herkimer County, N. Y., of a music-loving dove. It is said that when the piano is played in the house of the dove’s owner, it will fly into the house and perch on the head of the performer, where it will remain until the piece is played, when it […]