Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1920-02-12


clever swindlers to- easy marks" is
a product Of highly skilled work
1t is made of copper, al
loyed with a little zinc, and is paint
ed with real gold to which some
mercury has been added.
* & 4
Recent discovery of indubitable
feather of the giant moa-a bird
much like the ostrich--has enabled
ornithologists to reconstruct" this
amazing fowl as 1t was in life. 1t was
even larger than the .'roc." attaining
height of IA feet and weight of
half ton.
TIE Cornell widow unafrightsd
by the prohibition amendment and
somewhat out Of date as TO its prieea.
prints this limerick:
A MERE PRETTS
A beggar once asked for ave cts.
He got this smile was intts.
He said with q roar:
1--WE fifteen more
A Scotch highban I'll buy-they're
immtsss
e. s !.
Here is a note about the largest
spring in the world.
s4The Wakulla Spring in Florida
flows at the rate OF 10000 gallons 9
minute. But the Mammoth Spring in
Arkansas covers eighteen acres and
has flow of 100000 gallons minute.
It flows at an even temperature OF
fifty eight degrees. 1t La situated in
Fulton county, in northeastern Ar
kansas, and is In the limits OF the
town of the same name, Mammoth
Spring. It is fed from an underground
lake, <he area of which has never been
ascertained. 81
Here are some contributions to sign
board curiosities: b'I
In front of a Washington ff
shop:
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= soft drinks on ice of all kinds =
y served inside" $
s. q q q q q T3 + y = IS y
In a Chinese restaurant in New
York City:
4 y = & Il w@ j. s 3 y = 3 +
q "Riceko Rice Cakes served as +
g a breakfast aerial q
80 q as . = q y y y s. .
Approximately 10000 in state
taxes will be realized on the 1913 tax
roll. This amount will come from
real estate and personal property. II
Ia now In the process OF collection.
This normal income tax will approx
mate $1,000, 900. The soldier bonus
acts will necessitate collection Of
about $500, 900, Of which $1,000
600 viii go for the cash bonus and
s.. 500, 600 for the educational bonus.
A large live American eagle stand
ing about four feet high and with a
wing spread of seven and one-half
efet was received by the conseTva-
tive commission at Madison. Alex
ander Poast, farmer near Ridgeway,
Iowa county, caught the bird in I,
small trap. The commission has sent
| it to the Henry Villas park ZOO.
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I like the story Of the young lady, .
says &C. K. S." (said to be a short
! for Clement K Shorter) in the Lon
don Sphere "who was debating with
her sister what kind of present they
should give, and the sister suggested
that a book was the reply. I sup
pose" the essayist adds, there really
is world in which the possession OF
but he goes on to describe a multitude
of a1luring new ones. an item OF
one took quite meets the situation, :
special interest to children is this:
lone is glad to know that G. A.
Henty still fiourishes in the world
of chldren's books, for here in one OF
his stories, Captain Bayleys Heir
s. 8. y
Speaking of one book reminds the
writer of a story he heard long ago
In Indiana. A man came along selling
bibles and desired to leave one at a
rural home, The man said he did not
think he was in need Of one but
would look and see. He had been
In the habit of using page every
time he shaved and in that way the
book gradually disappeared. He did
not leave the agent standing long
for he soon returned and said: Yes,