Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-10-03
Tbs end 5hof

Congressman William L. La Fol-
lette, cousin of Senator La Toilette,
has filed suit. in Washington state
asking for $4,000 for alleged libel, and
naming the Bulletin Printing COM
pany of Walla Walla, and j. G. Kelley
the owner, as defendants.
The complaint quotes from two edl-
torials which appeared in the Bulletin
both of which the congressman al
leges were calculated to make people
believe that he was disloyal to his
government.
The family seems to have the habit.
To it's Walla Walla contemporary
The Democrat extends Fluctuations
on having the damages placed at
only $4,000! In Wisconsin the La
Toilette schedule runs somewhat
higher-sort of a wartime rate, due
perhaps to the more altitudinous cost
of living in an intensively progressive
state.-Madison Democrat.
: i !
A man remarked the other day it
would be next to impossible to obtain
lawn mowers next year. Another
thing for which to be thankful.
Z T i +
A philologist declares that nine
words do one-fourth of our verbal
work for us, and forty-three words
one-half. The nine usful words are:
And, be, have, it, of, the, to, will, you.
The thirty-four more that, with these
nine do half our literary work, are:
About, all as, at, but, can, come, day,
dear, for, get, go, hear, her, if, in, me,
much, not, on, one, say, she, so, that,
there, they, this, though, time, we,
with, write, your. 1t will be noted
that these are all words of one syll-
able, and that, strangely, the list does
not contain the egotistical pronoun /.
+ i + +
Four Presidents Of the United
States, according to the Washington
Star" have been Presbyterians-
Wilson, Benjamin Harrison, Cleve-
land, and Jackson; four were Episco-
palians = Arthur, Tyler, William
Henry Harrison, and Washington;
four were Meethodists = Mckinley,
Hayes, Grant, and Polk; three were
Unitarians Taft, John Quincy
Adams, and John Adams; two attend
ed the Dutch Reformed church
Roosevelt and Van Buren,; Pierce at
tended the Congresga tional church;
Garfield, the Disciples The church
affiliations of Jefferson, Madison,
Monoe, Taylor, Fillmore, Buchanan,
Lincoln, and Johnson are regarded
as difficult to determine.
i + / +
"Said Roll Might Choke Elephant"
On seeing this headline in large type
in a daily paper the reader might pos
sibly first think Of the circus and of
the peanuts which the largest of land
mammals takes one by one; then of
the small throat of the whale, the
hugest of sea mammals; then Of the
folly of feeding any animal, in these
times when flour is SIS O. barrel, on
good breakfast "olls. Then-he
reads on, and finds that the story is
about a trial: "'Did Martin seem to
have much money! asked the Dis
trict Attorney. He had a roll that
would choke an ELEPHANT answered
the Witness The headline writer
certainly got the readers attention
through wrong scent.
i + i +
A medical journal extracts this
case of anticlimax from the Hunts
Vile (Mo.) Times and heads it
Pneumonia Not Disease" "She
was a beautiful girl and had been a
student at Kirksville normal, but ow-
ing to sickness she had to return
home At first she had pneumonia,
which later developed into Illness"
i + i i
The difference between the words
surprised" and "astonished" Is hui
morously eaucidated by a word critic
in this way: "If certain man in this
town who owes us money should say
that he was going to pay it, we should
be surprised. And if he kept his
promise, we should be astonished."
I + / t
Wash the pretty red apple before
you give it to your little girl" says
Mrs Frances Campbell in THE Book
Of Home Nursing." THE apple is
good for her, but the germs which are
on the outside are not Use the apple
to nourish the child and not the child