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.
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.
Saturday, December 9, 2017
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Thursday, June 2, 1853
Something more than one hundred dogs have been killed by the city authorities within the last thirty-six hours.-Galena Jeffersonian.
Saturday, December 9, 2017
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, March 9, 1853
Three of the Chinca Islands, on the coast of Peru, on which guano (crap) is deposited by birds, are said to contain two hundred and fifty millions of tons of the manure, worth one thousand two hundred and fifty million pound sterling, or upwards of seven thousand millions of dollars.
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.
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 calls for a remedy. will not our city fathers see to it-if our citizens are at the trouble and expense of putting out shade trees to adorn and beautify the town-that they shall not be destroyed by stock being allowed to run at large.
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 death of his companion. It remained all that day and night in the midst of severe cold, by which it appeared to be almost paralyzed, by affectionate position, sending up all the time the most pitiful cries and groans. Nor was it induced to abandon the dead body of its companion until its master forced it away, being thirty-six hours in this situation.
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 inches, and its motions in the water were similar to that of the snake. It moved with incredibly swiftness, sometimes raising its body out of the water three or four feet at a time. When a mile below our town the snake took a rest and was plainly seen by a gentleman living immediately on the river.
There can be no doubt that this individual is either a real descendant of the Sea Serpent, or in some way related to that monstrosity.-Columbia Democrat.
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Thursday, April 7, 1853
The terrible accident which happened a short time since in Boston, from the running away of a horse, frightened by the approach of a locomotive, has set inquiry to work to find out the best mode of preventing such a catastrophe in similar cases. A correspondent of Boston Transcript, who has observed the mode adopted in Moscow, and in St. Petersburg, thinks it altogether better than Newall’s new plan of the moveable whiffletree, which lets the animal clear off from the vehicle, if wanting to run away. the Russian plan is as follows:
“Around the horse’s neck, near the neck-strap, is placed a cord with a running knot. This slip noose is attached to a pair of reins; on a gentlemen’s horses generally of silk cord, about the size of a pipe stem, which always lie thrown over the dash board, ready to be seized at once. When a horse starts and becomes unruly, the gentleman takes up this cord and tightens the horse’s throat so that he cannot breathe. The most furious horse stops almost instantly, but will not fall or kick.