Saturday, December 9, 2017
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Thursday, November 11, 1852
How many of our fair readers, as they draw on their French kid gloves are aware that those same gloves are made of rat skins? The catching of rats for this purpose is a regular trade in Paris, in which hundreds of men find employment.
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Saturday, December 9, 2017
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Monday, November 8, 1852
There is now on exhibition at Calais, Maine, a hog which stands seven feet eight inches high, and girths six feet eight inches, and weighs twelve hundred pounds. it is one year and six months old.
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Saturday, December 9, 2017
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Thursday, November 18, 1852
It is stated in English papers that pauperism is decreasing throughout Ireland-the result of emigration-and that business seems to be improving. It is stated that 100,000 head of sheep and cattle have been purchased at the great Scottish fairs, to be sent to Ireland.
Saturday, December 9, 2017
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Saturday, March 12, 1853
There is an ox in St. Louis which it said weighs, 3,500 pounds. It is 18 feet long; 12 feet girth, and 13 hands high-so says the Republican.
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Saturday, December 9, 2017
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Friday, January 14, 1853
Several complaints have been made to us of late of the damage done to shade trees by allowing horses to run at large. One gentleman having some fine thrifty elms in front of his lot, though protected by boxes some seven feet high, has had them all ruined by horses. This is too bad, and […]
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Saturday, December 9, 2017
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Monday, February 21, 1853
The Charleston Evening News relates a singular instance of canine attachment. Two dogs, one a terrier and the other a spaniel, were playing together on Haskell street, Charleston, on Friday last, when an omnibus in passing unfortunately ran over and killed the terrier. The spaniel commenced the most piercing cries and pathetic lamentations for the […]
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Tuesday, November 28, 2017
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Monday, May 30, 1853
On Friday last several of our citizens had a full view of a monster in our river answering the description of the Sea Serpent. They say it was from sixteen to eighteen feet long, with a very large head resembling the alligator. The circumference of its body near its head was about twenty-five or twenty-six […]
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, April 13, 1853
A number of whelps, the offspring of a lioness which died on the passage from India to England, have been given over to the maternal charge of a female terrier. The canine was deprived of her own young and the lions substituted. The strange family goes on most harmoniously.
Thursday, November 16, 2017
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, July 12, 1909
Sidewalks and Rails Covered and Trains are Delayed. Gouverneur, N. Y., July 12.-In a heavy wind and rain storm thousands of small frogs fell, covering the sidewalks. The rails of the Rome, Watertown and Ogdenburg division of the New York Central railroad for half a mile were buried and trains delayed.
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Thursday, November 16, 2017
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, July 1, 1912
A recent writer in the Field newspaper gives the dimensions of an old Indian elephant, which would scarcely have been much inferior in size to a mastadon. According to his account the animal measured 11 and three-quarters feet in height at the shoulders, 25 feet 5 inches from the tip of the trunk to the […]