Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Sunday, September 30, 1900
Bulls Couldn’t Stand Before an Auto. Paris, Sept. 30.-A dispatch from Bayonne to the Figaro describes a bull fight which occurred there yesterday in which an automobile replaced the horse of the picador. The novelty drew an enormous crowd, but seven bulls in succession turned tail and fled at the sight of the auto.
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Published in the Waukegan DailySun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, April 7, 2025
Wildcat Eats Wildcat. Savage brutes shipped from California in the same cage have a falling out by the way-A case of assimilation. A 50-pound Wildcat, with a split eye lid, and fresh battle scars about its body, was the survivor of a catfight. The Wildcats were forwarded by W. D. Gambel, of Wells, Fargo & […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, June 28, 1873
Monkey Sagacity. It was a wild and dreary part of the country, in the plains of India, while journeying, that one day a friend and myself sat down under the shade of a banana tree; and were enjoying a meal of various edibles, when we were disturbed by the arrival and the noise of a […]
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Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, November 13, 1902
The African cobra is regarded somewhat reverently by the natives of that country, who once a year kill a cobra de Capello and hang its skin to the branch of a tree, tail downward. Then all the children born during the last year are brought out and made to touch the skin. This the parents […]
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Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Friday, April 5, 1850
Wild Pigeons.-Chronicle says that, during the stay of the wild pigeons in that neighborhood, two persons caught 650 dozen of the birds. They were taken in a net.
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, July 22, 1865
Extraordinary Effects of Whiskey upon a Dog. An unfortunate dog, while prowling around the market square lately, took it in his noddle to put out of sight one of those beef boluses, a few of which were carefully thrown around for the especial benefit of the canine fraternity-those without muzzles. The incautious individual had only […]
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Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Monday, October 28, 1850
An account has been published in the Boston papers of an attack made upon the baroque Parker Cook, July 22nd, by a large sperm whale. Capt. G. Smith, of the schooner Union, just arrived at Boston, has given further details of the singular affair. “The whale was a very large one, yielding one-hundred and three […]
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Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Tuesday, November 5, 1850
There are 1,000 cattle slaughtered daily at the packing houses in Chicago. The color of the waters of the Chicago River is materially changed and corrupted by the offal thrown into the river.
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Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Tuesday, December 17, 1850
Death by Hydrophobia. A most melancholy case of hydrophobia has just occurred in the family of Mrs. Law, a highly respected colored woman in this town. The facts as nearly as we can learn them, are substantially these; a few weeks ago the son of Mrs. Law, a very likely, intelligent young man of about […]
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Monday, March 3, 1851
A Crocodile Story.-We had some talk the other day with one of the very few survivors of the Egyptian expedition under Sir Ralph Abercromby, who has lived to obtain the Egyptian medal fifty years after it was earned. What a mockery to wait until there were not, perhaps ten alive in the country and then […]