Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-04-24
This and That

The Barnum G Bailey and Ringing
circuses have been combined for the
coming season, and now are showing
in Madison Square Garden preparatory
to hitting the road. One of the fea-
lures of the 1919 show is a troop OF
performing. Fords, remarks a visitor
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Friendly Enemies" at the Hudson
Theater now is the Oldest show run
ming in New York. its run
July %. "Sinbad," with al. Jolson
which ran through most of. two
seasons, finally was withdrawn few
days ago.
Friendly Enemies" was seen in
Baraboo recently.
In Chicago; was a man; and he felt
all wrong: so he went to a doctor;
and the doctor told him; a lot OF
things; among others; that his heart
was lopsided; Or something; and the
man laughed; at the doctor; and six
hours later they found him; dead /;
which shows; if you want; bath /;
you must not laugh; at the plumber.
Journal.
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We are told that in Kentucky there
is tree bearing each year a crop of
walnuts and a crop of mulberries, and
the curious phenomenon is accounted
for by the supposition that a mulberry
seed fell where a walnut lay in the
ground, and the young shoots came up
side by side and united their forces
into one solid trunk. This suppOsitiOn
seems feasible from the fact that the
bark Of the tree is one one side that
of walnut and on the other that of the
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II want to know what part of April
will be in the dark Of the moon,
asked a woman of P. Conner, CHIEF
of the weather bureau, at Kansas City,
over the telephone.
"Oh, you're going to plant potatoes,
aren't you?" replied the weather
Guess again" she replied.
"Well, if it's not potatoes 1t S
tulips.''. replied the gallant Irshman.
Wrong. We're going to shingle
our house, she coyly explained.
Whats that got to do with the
dark of the moon?" queried Mr.. Con-
nor
why" she replied; shingles put
on in the light Of the moon curl up. >
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Sassafras tea held peculiar place
in the affections of the boy of the
house. It was the one specific pre-
scribed by the domestic materia
medica that was not repellent to the
taste. the one exception to the youth
full belief, derived from personal OBJ
seryation. that thing could not be
beneficial and the same time pleasing
in the mouth. Sassafras time was
always a pleasant period. The aroma
of the sleeping bark in the kettle on
the back of the kitchen stove filled
the house in the morning, and In the
fragrance there was always something
foreign, hint of the spice Islands OF
the orient, even though one knew that
tbe bark might have come from one
of tbe big trees in the wood lot out
beyond the pasture.
And the rudy beverages that took
the Mace of the customary cup OF
breakfast cambria tea held sparhle
that the ruby drops of a more costly
vintage met with in later years never
riyaled. Sassafras tea may nave DeeA
q mold fashioned fetch; no modern
nractitioner was ever known to pre-
scribe it: but be its virtues may Oh
few if belongs to the past, TO gen
Grafton that, for instance, DelleVea III
the "mad stone" as a sovereign rem
edv for hydrophobia and that warts
were caused by handling toads. -Ne"
York Tribune.
Chas. A. Carpenter, retired passen-
ger conductor, contributes an artlcle
to a Baraboo paper telling Oh Tue
generous amount of mud in certain
army camp. The article says that
one of the soldiers saw something
sticking up out of the mud upon
Investigation he found it to be rlhe'
and digging further he found
Doughboy, who complained about the
mud and asked him to aid in getting
out the horse he was riding. I
wasn't much trouble to get the morse
out as the animal was standing on
load of hay.
Mr.. Carpenter never had mucf
love for any mixture of that sort
Not long ago the North Western by
Co., put in depot platform at Nor
walk that used to get in such con
dition everytime it rained. One morn
ing when Conductor Carpenter came
through on his run he saw sometnins