Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-05-08

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home.
Our opinion is that any man who
has strength enough to dig Ash worm;
possesses the necessary requirement:
to spade a garden.
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Here is a hint to artists who aim
for popular appreciation: A man and
bis wife, the story goes, visited the
Louvre in Paris. What struck you
most among the pictures?' a friend
asked after their return homo. "Oh,
replied the man, "a painting that
represented Adam and Eve, with the
apple and the serpent" yes cnimed
in the wife; 1--WE found that very in
teresting because, you see, We know
the anecodote"
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Women are supposed to care little,
as rule, for the kind of humor ex-
hibited in making puns, but the "Peo-
nle's Home Journal crdits this pun
ming retort to the heroine of the dia-
logue: "He: My ideal Of wife is one
who can make good bread She: My
ideal of a husband is one who can
raise thief dough in the hour
knead.'
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A moot point in English grammar is
discussed in Expressive English by
James C. Fernald. Shall we say,
hxryy1 mo dock
Whence all but he had fled"
or,
whence all but him had fed?
The line, says Dr. Fernald, is print
ed differently in different editions or
the poets works that seem of equal
authority. "Some one" he says, has
edited it. But which way? AT all
events, the present tendency is to
treat but in such use as a conjunction,
taking the same case after it as before
it:
mo one escaped the wreck but he;
The wreck was fatal to all but him.
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A member of the Iowa assembly
addressed the Wisconsin assembly the
other morning and told how fine the
legislators had it out in our adjoining
state. "Why," he said, there is a
great difference in the way you do
things here and the way we do things
in Iowa. For instance, our assembly
chamber is twice as large as yours.
We have more than 100 members and
each has a desk on the floor and at
his desk during the sessions sits q
; clerk-a young woman, chosen IN most
cases for her beauty rather than her
efficiently. Our pay is $1,000 session
and" Here he was interrupted by
bachelor member of the assembly VINO
incurred, whats the railroad fare to
Miss Ruth NJ Southland writes from
MINNEAPOLIS that she desires an extra
COPY of The News containing the
Joseph Glossy letter. The paper IL
for a friend who lost a brother soon
after he reached France and no Woro
came from him after he left the states.
The Joseph Glossy letter gave such
a fine account of the 343d Infantry.
that the family can by means Of the
letter obtain history OF the com
mand. Little does one dream what
comfort an article in a newspaper
sometimes brings.
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When ."~tmaster Alger c. Pearson
returned from France he came unan-
nounced. When he stepped from the
train he called for a car which TOOK
him home, a surprise for his relatives
He intended to surprise those enc
ployed in the post office, but acciden-
tally met one of the clerks the evening
of his arrival When the clerk report
ed at the post Office in the morning ne
announced the return Of the postmas-
ter. All supposed Mr.. Pearson was
still in France and the clerk was
asked what kind of wine the Roxbury
woman was selling. 1t was not long
before the postmaster was at his desk
again and all uncertainties were at
rest
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There has been some discussion be-
tween M. F. Foley, the nurseryman,
and Roy Isenberg, pupil in the high
school, as to whether billion dollars
was a greater number than the 7 n
Der OF seconds which have elapsed
since the beginning of the Christian
era. The student has found that from
/, 1, 1, or from January 1, the year /,
up to May 4, 1919, there have been
1,OO8,96S, 400 seconds. The discussion
started some time ago and the num-
Der in a billion and the number of sec
onds since the beginning of the era
were about the same.
After all has been said and done
a few of those Germans will be per-
mitted to dine in Paris.
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Austria is gone and no more will
they sing, Eyes, We Shall Gather at
the River
4 & 4
!; A Milwaukee man has written a
new song, I'm the Sweet Dry and
Dry"