Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, December 11, 1880
    There are now on exhibtion in New York two peculiar elephants brought from the mountains of the Malay Peninsula, about 800 miles from Singapore. They are remarkable for their small size, being respectively twenty-eight and thirty-six inches tall; and for being covered with a thick coat of bristly hair or wool. They are supposed to be from 5 to 7 years old. In size they resemble the extinct elephants of Malta, and in covering those of Siberia. Their woolly coat is attributed to the circumstance that they live high upon the mountains where the climate is cold. The species appear to be all but unknown to naturalists, this pair being the first that have survived the passage through the heated low country to the coast and the subsequent journey by sea. The sailors on the steamer which brought them-the Oxfordshire, Captain C. P. Jones-named them Prince and Sidney. They are described as playful and harmless, and they keep their trunks stretched out to strangers to be petted. They love to be scratched on the under side of the trunk close to the mouth, and they hold their trunks curled back over their heads as long as anyone scratches them. Like elephants of large growth, they keep up a swaying motion, either sideways or forward and backward. When a visitor lets one of the little fellows take his hand he delicately curls his proboseis around it and carries it gently to his mouth. Then he trumpets his satisfaction.
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, December 11, 1880
    The hound is one of the fastest running dogs, and not impeded by a heavy body possesses great endurance. An evidence of this was shown the other day by a hound belonging to Mr. J. A. Ford, of Battle Creek, Mich. Its owner was stopping at a village six miles from the above place, and getting on the cars with the intention of returning home did not notice the absence of the dog. He soon saw the hound, however, following the train, which at the time was running at the rate of eighteen miles an hour. The animal reached home a few minutes after the train, having accomplished the six miles in thirty minutes.
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 1, 1881
    Iowa hall can boast of a dog that out Tanners Tanner, having lived forty-two days without food or water. On the 16th day of September the animal owned by Mrs. Armstrong, of Bird’s Flat, disappeared from its home. They marveled much at his prolonged absence and, after futile inquiries and search, concluded that it had come to its death from cause unknown. On the 28th of October a neighbor out hunting cows was attracted to the edge of an old shaft by a faint yelping at the bottom. Peering down the shaft he discovered the long-lost animal. A ladder was secured and a boy sent to the rescue of the long-lost dog, which could only shiver and laboriously move its tail for joy. The bottom of the shaft was tramped as hard and smooth as marble, and the sides as high as it could spring were furrowed and torn in its frantic efforts to escape. A diet of warm water and milk was administered, and at last accounts it was recovering rapidly. Its weight before it disappeared was more than one hundred pounds, and when found it was less than twenty.
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 14, 1880
    Dr. Pratt, of Albany, has a horse with an inordinate appetite for confectionery. Every morning he is driven to the banking house of Henry R. Pierson, and after disposing of his master he turns his eyes northward to see if his road is clear. If he finds no obstacle in the way he walks across the street and pays his addresses to an old lady who keeps a street stand on the Museum corner. From her he obtains a stick of candy, and after eating it stays there until the doctor comes and pays the old lady a cent for her candy. This is a daily occurence.
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 14, 1880
    George Jenkins, of Barbour county, Alabama, killed a rattlesnake which weighed forty-two pounds, and had fourteen rattles.
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, November 6, 1875
    If Henry V. Rice, a boy of Miami county, Kan., had been an Indian, his fame and name would have been made now. He lately brought a large she-wolf to bay, and had no gun or other instrument of death, except his naked hands. The wolf sprang at him, and young Rice caught the animal by the ears. Then there was a struggle of life and death between the boy and the wolf. It was brains against teeth, and the instinct of rapacity. The battle was long and fierce. At length brains prevailed, and the wolf was in the position of under dog. She was slain even as Samson slew the lion. The boy’s clothing was damaged, but otherwise he was as good as ever. If he had been an Indian he would have been called “She Wolf,” and his fame would have gone forth among all the tribes. As he is the son of a civilized white man he has to be satisfied with a newspaper notice.
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, November 6, 1875
    Recently, near Titusville, Pa., a hound was found lying exhausted in a field, and beside the dog was a dead fox. It was afterward discovered that the hound had followed the fox for nearly forty miles, from the vicinity of Harstown, Crawford county.
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, November 6, 1875
    A hairless horse, standing fifteen hands high, and weighing 1,000 pounds, is the latest natural curiosity in this country. The quadruped, which presents the appearance of an India rubber animal, answers to the name of “Caoutchoue.”
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, November 6, 1875
    Rubber horse-shoes are the latest novelty. Their cost, as compared with those of iron, is about one-third more, and their weight forty per cent less. It is said that horses suffering from cracked or contracted hoofs, are soon cured by their use.
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, November 23, 1875
    There is a cage containing four white mice at the Delta saloon, Virginia, which are quite a study. After seeing their maneuvers for an hour or two, one is not, at all surprised at the racket made by mice generally, for during the early part of the evening they take constant and violent exercise. They consume a great deal of water, taking a drink every ten minutes or oftener. It would be supposed that such a small animal as a mouse would not be at all ferocious and aggressive; but such appears to be the case with the white species at least. A chipmunk that was put into the cage with those at the Delta was attacked by them all and very quickly dispatched, without one of the mice being injured in the least by the unfortunate victim. A gray mouse, which was subsequently put into the same cage, was very roughly handled, being attacked by two of the white mice, who took hold of him like a couple of bull-dogs and repeated the attack again and again, shaking him by the throat and biting his legs and tail, the latter being nearly severed from his body. Perhaps white mice like red ants are a particularly ferocious species of the genus to which they belong.