Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1920-08-12

was this: up in New Hampshire two
men were talking politics, one spoke
of certain corrupt influences. The
trouble he said, is with the dormant
party'-he meant to say dominant"
Another answer was this: 81 heard
man the other day speak of Ibanez's
celebrated novel as The Four Horse
men of the Acropolis.' Who will
match these?
The old time sailor was a master
workman in making knots, splicing
rope, etc. but even he would probably
take off his hat to Baltimore oriole
whose nest was recently secured from
felled poplar in Ann Arbor, Mich.
This nest, it is believed, was made
from single kite string, which the
bird artisan manipulated into a pouch
five and half by three and half
| inches in size 1t is described as very
firmly and compaetly knit together
and securely attached to its support
| ing branches. The patience and ingen-
uity of the mother bird that construct
ed such a nest might be appreciated
! by any one who should try to make a
| similar pouch with single piece of
cord several hundred feet long.
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| Under the head OF Cleaning a
Clock, the Scientific American"
prints this suggestion, which may be
tried by economical persons who fear
that clockmakers' wages may have
gone up in the general uplift of prices
Soak piece of cotton wool in kero-
sene and place this in a small saucer,
a canister lid, or anything similar.
Then put this in the case of the clock
under the works, close up and at the
| end of twentyfour hours examine the
cotton wool 1t will be found to be
covered with black specks; these are
the dust particles brought down by
the fumes of the kerosene Wind the
clock up and it will start away again
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] A stray paragraph on WARS OF
the United States enumerates nine
teen wars. Ten Of these are conflicts
with Indian tribes of which the most
important were probably the Black
Hawk war and the Seminole war. If
/ these are called wars, an eleventh
might be added-the Modoc war of
1873. The important wars on the
! list are: the ware of the Revolution,
! the War of 1912, the Mexican War,
the Civil War the Spanish War, the
| War with Germany. The minor con-
/ flicts- included in the list are: the
War with France, 1898, the War with
Tripoli, 1901, the Philippine War 1899.
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In Chicago there is a. string of
Piggy Wiggly stores places where
customers are permitted to gather
! packages of groceries from the shell
| YES and pay at the exit, no clerks
/ being employed and seventeen Of
| these establishments have been rob-
| bed. The bandits enter the stores ear
ly Monday mornings before the Satur-
| day sales have been banked and car
F.! " away the money in automobiles.
1t will be necessary for thePiggly pro-
| prietors to stop the leak or they will
suffer large deficit
Tourists who visit Europe and who
| desire to save time in going from Lon
don to Paris may journey by air, a
ticket costing $50
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| When all Of the candidates are in
the field there will be dearth of plati-
tudes.
| A staunch supporter of Governor
dope and made some home brew.
He placed the bottled goods in his Gel
lar and then for some time was afraid
! to go below for bottle exploded about
every fifteen minutes.
| A New York farmer writes to the
Rural New Yorker" complaining of
the labor shortage, and telling how
men who have worked in factories and
then have gone back to the farm are
spoiled by their experience in the
cities. "F'or instance" he says, e
factory trained hired man, precisely at
4:45 has been known to stop work and
put up the horses no matter if there
is load of hay ready to go irto the
barn and thunderstorm in sight,
leaving the owner to save his nay the