Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1921-02-24
By the Way


One man in Baraboo says when you
mention taxes to him it makes him
mad.
A resident near Baraboo strolled in
to The News office and stated that he
had come to the conclusion if he had
help on the farm next summer he
would have to kidnap the individual.
What becomes of the pennies About
80O0O,000 or more are made and put
into circulation every year and very
few ever come back to the treasury
department. This has long puzzled
treasury officials, who assert that it
would be impossible to lose 10000, 900
pennies year in such out-of-the-way
places that no one would find them,
and it is certain that few persons are
boarding them. The copper is a real
barometer OF business. In hard times
they collect by millions in the sub
treasures and when trade revives they
flow out as fast as they flowed in.
B. A Leonard of De Pere, as to the.
penny question says: 1.-THE Lincoln
cent was first issued in 1909; and if
you will take out of your pockets
when you read this, the cents you hap
pen to have will be all but two or
! three Lincoln cents. If in 1908 you
had gone to the two banks in De Pere
and procured 100 cents you would
have found among them some for each
year since 1857 to 1907, except, per-
haps, 1857, 1866, 1873, 1877 and 1884.
Today at the four De Pere banks if
you get 25 cents from each you will
not find any cents issued before 1890
or 1880; in those 100 there would be
about IS of 1919, 10 of 1920 and 1918.
Z of 1917, of 1916 and 1915, 6 of 1914,
not one of 1913, 1909 or 1908; 5 of 1912,
1911
Continuing, he says: Some people
do not notice things they see every
day. A picturesque anarchronism in
the hands of those given to philately,
some have failed to see. A British
| Colonial postage stamp just now put
into circulation, shows Christopher
Columbus on the deck of his ship gaz-
! ing through a telescope at the distant
! land (The telescope was invented
about the 18th century,. Then there
| is the new one, two and five cent Pill
grim stamps. Each of them is an or
phan; i. e.: heretofore our stamps
have borne the words u. S. Postage
or similar caption
Gnata Giovanni, who has been res
ident of Ableman and at Devils lake
for several years, has applied to Clerk
of the Court Frank B. Moss for a pass
port. He expects to go to Australia by
the way Of New York and the Panama
Canal. The passport is good for two
lyears and Mr. Giovanni believes he will
be~Sable to travel much in that time.
He may return to America or he NAV
not. He was a soldier in the World
war and spent nine months with the
ttain passport there are many details
to be looked after. In the first place he
had to procure two pictures, one to be-
retained by the government the other
to be pasted on his passport, bis name
written across it. The person must
Egive proof of his birth.
and in case of foreign born, and as
in this instance, must send his natur-
al1zatlon papers to Washington. In
the next place he must see that his
federal taxes are paid and in this case
the passport must go to either Victoria
or Vancouver to be vissed by British
authority. The wise must be secured
since he is going for British posses
sion. By the time the young man,
born beneath Italian skies, returns to
Devils lake, if he does come back,
will find the American Refractories
company plant located on the August
G. Zauft farm, sending reverberations
toward the village of Merrimack by
the wholesale.
A Scottish farmer one day called
to farm hand:
Here, Tam, gang room and gle
the COOS cabbage each, but min
We gle the biggest to the COO that
gies the maist milk"
The boy departed to do his bidding,
and on his return the farmer asked if
he had done as he was told
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