Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1922-06-08
By The Way

Potatoes are excellent receptacles
for the stems of cut flowers. Bore a
small hole in the potato and insert
the stem of the flower and observe
! that the flower will keep fresh longer
than if placed in water.
B
All Elkhorn mourns the death of
Winken, Blinken and Nod, members
of the official cat family of DR.. L. H.
Coulson, which promised to make Elk
horn famous. The kittens were born
last week, with one body but three
heads. Life was sweet until the moth
er, disgraced by the ignominy of the
triple birth, deserted and left for
parts unknown. The freak kittens
went to the place where good kittens
CO. Elkhorn Independent.
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Hidden for centuries in the hills of
India vast marble dam showing un-
sung feats of engineering has already
come to the knowledge of the outside
world. The dam is built entirely of pol
ished white marble; is 3 miles long
and 40 feet high from base to spill
way. 1t impounds the waters of a
mountain stream into an artificial
lake 30 miles in circumference the
largest artificial lake in the world.
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A giant air plane is now near COM
pletion in Paris, with which to begin
a regular air passenger service across
the Atlantic. The leviathan is con-
structed entirely of metal except
the propeller. It's weight is 13 tons
and has a wing surface OF $50 so. me-
tiers. It's engines will generate 1850
horsepower and move the plane at
speed of from 100 to 100 miles an
hour. Its capacity is 20 passengers.
Replacing the old-time milk cans,
giant "thermos bottle cars are now
keeping milk sweet and cool in trans
portation. The new milk bottles on
wheels are $500 gallon steel tanks,
lined with glass. The milk is chilled
to temperature between SO and 40
degrees before being pumped into the
thermos tanks. In going a journey of
107 miles the temperature of the milk
rises only 2 degrees. Two tanks are
mounted on each car and each tank
has moter-driven agitator to stir the
milk at the terminal, just before the
tanks are emptied, in order TO assure
uniformity.
K y 4
On the lawn az the home of NJ. G.
Crandall there are a large number of
shooting stars in bloom. This land
has never been plowed and among the
trees the flowers persist. Before the
soil of the prairies was turned over
by the plow there were many fine
wild flowers which have all but dis
Mr.. Crandall occupies the
home long the residence of Mrs. J. G.
Train.
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One of the largest and most per-
feet fir trees ever felled in Washing |
ton was recently turned into lumber. |
The tree stood more than 800 feet
high and seven 80 foot logs were cut |
below its branches. These logs were
Of a diameter of six feet and weigh |
ed 275 tons. They were worth 5000 |
in the rough and the first grade |
flooring obtained from them will sell !
for several times that sum. The logs
scaled from $4,000 to $4,000 each.
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A nlmber of cows were brought to !,
the stock yards recently with their
tails locked, says the Norwalk Star. /
Instead of helping the humane agents
with their work some people try to
make them me- 9 trouble. Because a !
cow switches a man in the face or
gets her tail in the milk pail should
he offending member be cut of? If
so, then why not send the owner ont
20 fight bies and mosquitoes with his
lands tied?
The inhabitants of the Indian camp
are being brought to realize that
hey must live up TO the white mans
aw. A complaint being made 10
District Attorney Peterson that John
a married Indian, had de-
serted his wife and run off with a
daughter of Redbird, a maiden of ,
years, warrant was issued
or his arrest Constable Frank Hicl.
ok was advised TO apprehend the !
pair, watch lie did, by capturing them 7