Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, November 17, 1897
    Story of the Strange and Unpleasant Experience of an English Vessel.     When a vessel recently arrived in Liverpool with a cargo of logwood, everybody on board, from captain down to cook rushed frantically ashore, as through pursued by some unseen enemy. As a matter of fact, the vessel was literally swarming with hordes […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, June 11, 1898
    As mentioned exclusively in Friday night’s Sun, trainer James Anderson who had charge of the elephants with the Wallace circus met a terrible death yesterday morning at Racine by being trampled and gored by one of his charges. As a large crowd was near when the accident occured it is a miracle that no […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, July 23, 1898
    One of New York’s “four hundred” had a $3000 bull dog killed by a Maltese cat in a fight the other day. No wonder the poor dog got killed with such a terrible amount of money as that on his head. The cat probably was worth about fifty cents.
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, July 23, 1898
    Prince, the largest elephant of the Wallace circus died Wednesday night from lockjaw at Wabaska, Minn. It will be remembered that this beast is the one which a short time ago killed its keeper, James Anderson while the show was at Racine. Since its terrable rampage there it had been kept heavily chained. This, […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 17, 1885
[Fannie B. Ward’s Mexico Letter.] Â Â Â Â They tell us that here, and all along the southern coasts of Mexico people have a habit of inoculating themselves with the virus of the rattlesnakes or adder, which renders them forever afterwards absolutely safe from the bite or sting of any reptile, however poisonous. The truth of the […]
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Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, July 8, 1898
A Fourth of July Celebration Which Ended in Disaster.     “That billygoat the boys had for a mascot on the New York,” remarked the  paymaster’s clerk, “suggests a monkey’ that my father used to tell me about that they had on a frigate in the times before the war. This momkey the sailors had picked […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, March 14, 1885
[Popular Science News.] Â Â Â Â A queer way of employing ants is reported by an English gentleman who has been traveling through one of the provinces of China. It appears that, in many parts of the province of Canton, the orange trees are infested by worms; and, to rid themselves of these pests, the natives bring […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, May 16, 1885
   [Exchange]     Im Maricopa county, Arizona, there is considerable barbed fence, and the vast flocks of wild ducks which frequent the valley often fly low, and, stricking the barbed fences, become impaled thereon. It is said that tons of ducks are gathered daily by boys from the fences and sent to market.
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Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, August 21, 1885
[London News.] Â Â Â Â The origin of the rat, like the birth of Jeames Yellowplush, is wrapped up in mystery. The ancients, according to a learned writer by M. Eugene Rolland in his “Faune Sauvage,” knew not the rat. Their condition was more gracious. But it is hard to be certain about the fauna of the […]
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Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, October 3, 1885
[Gentleman’s Magazine.] Â Â Â Â The way the Arabs catch sharks is very curious and interesting, and is somewhat similar to playing a heavy salmon, only no rod is used. A hook of soft iron wire is made very sharp and baited with a lump of garbage of some kind, usually a piece of shark too rancid […]
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