Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1920-10-07
By The Way

The ministers of Sparta are as ex-
pert for trout as they are TOT SOUS,
remarks the Wisconsin Conservation
list.
The Princeton Republic views the
future as very gloomy when it comes
TO LIQUID bait for fishermen.
The Youths Companion tells OF
woman who played a mean TRICK on
the robins and angle worms. Instead
of nice green lawn Of grass she COW
cred the earth with concrete and then
painted it green, all this in order TO
be rid of sprinkling and cutting OF
the grass.
The worship Of pedigree and t1tle IS
satirized by writer on "Snobocracy,
in his anecdote of the conversation OF
two women of fashion: Il come from
a. very old family" said the first; "one
of my ancestors was beheaded during
the reign of Henry the Eighth.
"How perfectly 1ovely!" sighed the
other.
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From the London Morning Post:
A French boy in an English scnool
wrote s'too" when it should have been
"to", His master was pleased to be
sarcastic, and said eve can only re-
present it automatically There are
three 2's in the English language.
Write that out twenty times and then
perhaps you will remember it." After
puzzling for while the boy asked
how it was to be done, and the mas
ter had to admit that he was boWled
out It is one of the few English SEN
fences which cannot be written.
Life insurance policies OF over a
million dollars are not uncommon
now, according to q daily paper. IN
Chicago alone several men carry poll
cies of that amount or more. In one
recent instance the president OF big
Chicago company had his life insured
for 81. $50 900 in favor Of the company.
The, corporation itself will pay the pre-
MUM, amounting to $62.500 per an
mum. it is stated. Evidently the SER
vices Of this man are regarded as so
exceptionally valuable that the COM
pany believes it should discount his
possible loss. e
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Uncle Sam has issued a thrilling
little book entitled Fresh Water
Turtles; a Source Of Meat Supply"
The work not or1v tells interesting
things about the life and habits or
Br'er Turtle but also tells how he can
be prepared for the table One recipe
is specially striking at this time.
1t is the one for making turtle soup.
1t is not only Br'er Turtle that is in
the soup but also lard, onions, ham,
garlic, flour veal, thyme, laurel Leaf
parsley, shallots, lemon-and, to sap
the climax, "just before serving add
a glassful of Madeira wine" All, I'm
Gle Sam, you sly old fellow, what do
you mean by talking So knowingly
of turtle soup with wine In it, and tel
ling your nephews and nieces to use
such recipe? Don't You know that
you are liable to fine and imprison-
ment for spending such wet" propa-
ganda? We never would have thought
it of you. Pathfinder.
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A man told us the other day he
found great joy on reaching home
from his vacation because at his own
table he could soak his bread in his
coffee. He said his wife restrained
him from this pleasure when visiting
away from home.
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A man ordered a pair of trousers
from a mail order house and when
he opened the package he found only
the coat and vest. He wrote a letter
to the firm and desired to know when
he appeared In public with the coat
and vest on if it would be proper to
wear tag with the words pants
applied for or Trousers in transit"
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So many people have found it
profitable to raise foxes for their fur
and to farm muskrats" on a large