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Big Cats

Last Thursday morning a creature was observed to breakthrough a window of a store-house in this city, (New York) and jumped into the street, where was suddenly a number of spectators, who followed it, till it jumped over several high fences; and at last went between two houses, where they shot it. Many has had […]

England, Uncategorized.

They write from Shire-Drain in Lincolnshire, that on the 16th of last Month an eel was caught there by one William Townsend which was 7 feet 4 inches in Length; 2 feet 6 inches thick; the fat taken out of it weighed 16 pounds & a half; the ears were 8 inches long; the water […]

India, Cattle, Tigers.

We are told that 300,000 Souls have perished in this storm; but believe the number is exaggerated; a prodigious Quantity of Cattle of all sorts, a great many Tigers in the lower Ganges, and several Rhinoceros were drowned, even a great many Caymans, Amphibious Animals, were killed by the furious agitation of the waters, and […]

Horse

London, April 5, 1731. On Saturday last, a Farmer’s man in Aldersgate Street, stooping under a Horse’s Head, the Horse bit off one of his ears, but did not take out the Drum of it.

Horse

Philadelphia, December 1, 1730. Last Sunday one John Long, a Servant to Mr. Jones of Kingses, attempting to lead a mare over a small bridge over Cobb’s Creek, the Mare’s Fore Feet slipping, then with a violent Spring endeavouring to recover herself, struck him in the stomach with her head, threw him off the bridge, […]

Cats

About a Fortnight ago Mr. Evett, a Hatter at Lambeth, sitting in the Parlor, a strange little Cat came in, and running up his leg, bit his Finger, which immediately bled very much. He worried that the Cat was mad, for the pain struck to his heart, and he continued out of order till Saturday, […]

Alligators

Charlestown, South Carolina July 15, 1732. On the 29th, a white Servant Man belonging to Mr. Robert Cinclair wilfully drowned himself in Black River, he had been in the Province but a few weeks, and it is imagined that his being put to work, which was what, it seems, he had not been used to, […]

Uncategorized

A letter from Timothy Forecast in 1737. Sir, Think myself oblig’d to acquaint your Worship, that at my first coming into these parts, our inhabitants were few, and for some years after the country was seated, we were most grievously infected with wolves and bears, to the great perplexity of myself and neighbors; but thanks […]

Birds and Fish

We hear from the upper part of James River that because of the severity of the weather that large flocks of wild fowl were froze to death; and since the ice has been gone, great numbers of fish have been thrown upon the shore dead. The like has not been known in the memory of […]

Eagle Attacks Ranger

J. B. Martin Suffers Injuries from Attacks of Huge Bird. Finally Compelled to Abandon Horse and Seek Safety in Brush Pile-Reaches City After Dark. Buena Vista, Cal., May 10-While J. B. Martin, a forest ranger, was riding from the mountain side west of Buena Vista he was attacked by a large eagle, which fought him […]