Thursday, January 5, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette., Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 22, 1879
A French savant having been called upon to give his views regarding the eating of horseflesh, says: “It is like third rate beef; it cannot be said to have a disagreeable taste, for it has no taste at all. Donkey, on the other hand, is delicious, and infinitely better eating than beef or mutton. This […]
Friday, December 30, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, March 8, 1879
A real whale was caught in the Raritan Bay, near Monmouth. The carcass of the enormous fish was anchored near an old fish-oil factory, where the lucky fishermen who struck a bonanza in the capture of a sperm whale melted the blubber in large iron pots. The whale was first seen about sunrise by a […]
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Friday, December 30, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, March 15, 1879
Mr. James Morton, of Simonton’s Corner, Me., shot a tiger cat in the Barne district, measuring four feet and ten inches in length.
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Friday, December 30, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, March 22, 1879
They have on exhibition in St. Louis a cloak made of feathers of quail, prairie chickens, and wild ducks. There are said to be 38,880 feathers, and each feather has from five to eight stitches. It took a lady nearly seven months to make it, and she valued it at $500.
Friday, December 30, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, November 17, 1877
A boy named Ziba Lake, about 11 years of age, captured and killed an eagle on the farm of C. F. Heydecker, Esq. in Newport, a few days since. The circumstances were about as follows: The lad noticed the eagle resting upon the back of a sheep, but never having an eagle in that locality […]
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Friday, December 30, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, December 1, 1877
A North Carolina wagoner sold his dog to a Laurens county man the other day for half a barrel of sorghum syrup. The dog however, refused to be sold and took refuge under the wagon. The Laurens county man crawled after him with a piece of meat in one hand and a rope in the […]
Friday, December 16, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 19, 1878
    Carrier pigeons have actually been caught smuggling tobacco in France. By the untimely exhaustion of one of these birds and its consequent fall into the Seine whence it was rescued, a very pretty scheme was unfolded. It seems that a single smuggler employed eighty of the little messengers to transport the fragrant weed across […]
Friday, December 16, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, December 22, 1877
    The Jefferson City [Mo.] Tribune: A gentleman of the name of Ewing, who lives in Vernon County, tells a remarkable story of the sagacity of a dog which accompanied him on his travels. While in the Short Creek timber, on his way to Joplin, the dog jumped and caught the horse by the bridle […]
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Friday, December 16, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, December 22, 1877
    The following mode of tying hyenas in their den, as practiced in Afghanistan, is given by Arthur Connolly, in his Overland Journal, in the words of an Afghan chief, the Shirkaroe Synd Daond: “When you have tracked the beast to his den you take a rope with two slip-knots upon it in your right […]
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Thursday, December 15, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, December 15, 1877
    The fiercest beasts in the London Circus menagerie at the Hippodrome are the hyenas- the “grave-robbing hyenas” they have been called. They make more trouble than the lions and the tigers, fighting among themselves constantly; and when they engage in these combats they must be promtly separated or the stronger and younger beasts, frenzied […]
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