Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-05-22
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OF milk before we go home"
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Each person has two parents, four
grandparents, eight great grandparents,
sixteen great great grandparents and
ad infinitum. In case generation is
considered 80 years how many ances-
tors would you have in 500 years or
so generations. William the Conqueror
lived about 900 years ago and 1t would
be interesting to know how many you
had during that time BY multiplying,
as indicated in the beginning, thirty
times, one reaches a total of 2,150,364,-
12S The population of the earth is
said to be 1,600.000,000 and since there
are more people now than in the days
of William the Conquerer. how do you
account for the difference. There were
not as many people on the globe as
indicated by the figures found by
multiplying. The matter is explained
from the fact that many Of your an
cestors inter married, a Baraboo stu
dent says
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When you pay your war tax at the
soda fountain just remember it is an
internal tax.
1t is said a thousand persons on
recent Sunday visited the Roxbury
wine cellar. Evidently it is the last
call for wine; it is also the last call
for bock-beer
"The man who won't buy Liberty
bonds because he is afraid they will
drop couple of points below par in
a year or two, is somewhat like the
chap who is willing to discard his
wife because her hair is starting to
show little gray"
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The high cost of winking las just
been brought home to w. a. Gum, at
Atlanta Ga. The court fixed the price
at 81 per wink when Gum was brought
before him for winking at Mrs. G. f.
Williams. Besides the fine, Williams
handed Gum several healthy wallops
when his wife told him of The winks.
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There are plenty of fellows who
could teach a better school than those
who teach, preach better sermon
than those who preach, who could run
a better business and publish better
paper Yes, the woods are full Of
them, but they neither teach, preach
run better business or publish a
better paper.
A Mississippi judge has decided that
a razor carried in a Negroes pocket is
not weapon, but toilet article, even
though intended for the facial decora
ton of other negroes. A wagon spoke
carried as club would still be a
harmless agriculture implement at
tachment.
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Deeds transferring the property of
Albion Academy have been passed to
the Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran
church OF America. The property has
been placed in the hands OF j. A. Jen-
son as custodian and we understand
will be offered for sale. So 1t is to be
presumed that it will not again be
used for educational purposes. Albion
Academy is one OF the early day in
situations of learning in this section OF
the state where quite a large number
of men who became prominent in later
life secured advanced Education.
Among them are Senator Knute Nelson
of Minnesota, ex-GOv. Alva adams OF
Colorado, the late Judge Bardeen OF
our supreme court, Congressman II. Z.
Adams, Prof. J. O. Emery, Atty. J. M
Clancy Of Stoughton and many others.
-Edgerton Reporter.
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The peace problem, the bolshevlkl
and booze have been the three big
questions for discussion. Now that
the peace terms have been decided up
on ali there is left is the bolshevlki
and booze.
An Eighth street citizen complains
he cannot get his chickens ON the
daylight saving plan.
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The hottest and largest sun in the
whole universe is visible IN The east
in the evenings. This is the star
Arcturus, red star that lies in the
line Of prolongation of the handle or
the big dipper. II it were as close TO
us as the sun (93,000,000 miles) its
heat would probably burn US up. The
sun is a comparatively small star.
Planets are bodies such as the earth,
Mars, Venus, Jupiter, etc, that revolVe
about the sun or other stars or other
ulantes. The moon, for example, is
planet, but it revolves around the
earth. The light of the sun reaches
us in a little over eight minutes. The
light of Arcturus takes hundreds of
years to reach us.
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