Thursday, October 27, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, January 17, 1922
Moths and butterflies might not seem to us of much value as a food. but the Romans used them, as well as bees as an article of diet.
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, September 21, 1872
A farmer in Concord, Michigan, has kept an account of the potato bugs he has gathered this season fro an eight-acre piece, and he says they amount to twenty-one bushels, actual measure.
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, March 28, 1857
    As the flies will be upon us before long, it may be interesting to know that although the butcher shops at Geneva are all open, and immense numbers of flies may be seen on the outside walls, not one comes in. This is caused by the inner walls being rubbed over with laurel oil, […]
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, June 6, 1857
    Probably the greatest leap on record was made one day last week, at the Helena Shot-tower, Wisconsin. A horse, some twelve years old, jumped from the bank over a precipice of one hundred and eighty feet into the river below, and came out safe and sound, after swimming nearly half a mile to a […]
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Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 16, 1856
    The Charleston Evening News says that the elephant which was lost overboard from a vessel bound to that port, made its way safely into Mt. Pleasant harbor! The vessel was thirty miles out to sea, and a heavy gale was blowing when the animal went overboard. This is a remarkable instance of animal strength.
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 11, 1855
    A French Paper has the following; “At Balaklava, every day, the bands of the garrison give concerts in the square. The birds, who know very well the hour when the musical soiree in the open air commences, assemble in innumerable multitudes upon the trees and roofs of houses. The first piece is heard in […]
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Thursday, October 20, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, September 19, 1922
A traveler in Africa gives an idea of the strength and size of some of the crocodiles which inhabit the rivers and pools of the Dark continent. He describes a huge rhinoceros enjoying a mud bath, gradually disappearing from view in spite of its most frantic struggles and being carried to the depths by a […]
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, January 11, 1907
   The crew of the Perle, a French fishing boat, was about to pull a big net in when they encountered a sudden resistance and found that the net was simply crammed, not with good mackerel, but with dozens of octopuses, each provided with tentacles more than six feet in length. The poor men had […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, October 12, 1921
    Christmas Island, in Oceanica, is infested with landcrabs two feet across which swarm over the camps of travelers in such large numbers as to be dangerous. A party of astronomers, led by Admiral Wharton, were unable to protect their supplies, and the crabs even carried away two large chronometers.-Popular Science Monthly.
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Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, October 30, 1900
Shark stories, with some reason, are commonly received with incredulity. A well authenticated anecdote, however, is told of Dr. Frederic Hill, an English surgeon of distinction. A man fell overboard in the Indian ocean and almost into a shark’s mouth. Hill, who was standing close to the rail, grabbed a belaying pin and without hesitation […]
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