Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-03-27

aboo resident in a normal. Mr.. Gil
lett was born on October 16, 1851,
graduated from Amherst college in
1874, and the Harvard law school in
1877. He was admitted to the bar in
the same year; was assistant attorney
general of Massachusetts from 1879
TO 1892 was elected to the house of
representatives in 1890 and 1891; was
elected to the SD congress in 1892,
and reelected to the succeeding con-
gresses.
A series of eighty novels, written
and published during a period of thir-
ty-four years, a period starting after
the author had reached the age Of So,
that is the amazing record OF literary
activity left by Mrs. Amelia e. Barr,
who died at her home, Richmond Hill,
in her 87th year last week, says the
New York Times Book Review. The
annals of fiction writing may furnish
an instance of productivity, at COM
paratively advanced age, exceeding
this, but such an instance is not cas-
lily called to mind. Moreover, Mrs.
Bars novels, although produced in
such swift succession, were distinctly
not of the trashy kind From the first
of them, Jan Vedder's Wife, to the
last, 1.-THE Paper Cap" they were well
worth reading, skilfully constructed as
to plot and character, and, in many
instances, represented wide historical
research that must have meant the eX-
penditure of a vast amount of time on
the part of the author. Besides her
contributions to fiction, Mrs. Barr was
a prolific writer in other fields. In
essay. poem or tale she labored zeal
ously for the highest ideals in living
and thinking, and will long be remem-
bered as q beneficient influence by her
host Of readers.
The indications are when they get
through with Turkey she will not
have in all Europe place to spread
rug.
If the vets desire to be in harmony
, with their usual state of living they
should consider Bacon's line, Reading
! maketh a full man."
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| William Hohenzollern is quoted as
saying he is "broke" and borrowing
= from his Dutch host That sort of
thing usually begets earnest desire to
speed the parting guest. New York
Herald.
!
What is the tallest chimney in the
world? Popular Mechanics" says that
for a time the record was held by a
stack at Sagonoseki, Japan, which was
! $40 feet high. Now a new chimney
, at Anaconda, Montana, surpasses all
others with a height of 585 feet. This
overtops the Washington monument
, by 80 feet.
| Two celebrated dietary reformers
have recently died, one Of them at an
age that backs up his theories DR..
Tanner called the Great Faster, lived
to be ninety-one years of age; he at
tanned great notoriety years ago by
fasting, or pretending to fast, for forty
days, his only apparent sustenance
being a daily drink of water from
spring in Central Park. The other,
DR.. Horace Fletcher, died at the age
of 70; he gave the more or less abid-
| ing word "Fletcherism" to the Ian
guage-the prolonged mastication of
food before swallowing it.
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Pointing to the picture of tiger in
!. book on animals, says Good Health,
| the fond father asked little >three-year-
: OLE what it's name was. She answered
promptly, kitty" To the same ques-
| ton about the lion came the answer.
Doggy Elated with the seemingly
quick perception of his daughter, ia
! Their turned to the p cture Of a. CHM
panzee and said, Baby, what is this?"
| Papa"
| A wheel which loses it's governor
and revolves too rapidly bursts with
all. the force Of an explosion. This
happened recently in an electric light
bursting wheel wrecked the engine
room and it's machinery, tore huge
hole in the brick wall which faced it,
and sent one Of it's fragments, weigh
ing $50 pounds, a defiance Of five hun
dred feet.
The columbus Evening Dispatch"
prints this good-natured gibe at one
of the most popular of our entertain
ers, who has been called to higher
fields of endeavor: with Paderewski
at the head of it's government, Poland
should put up that Western mining
camp theater sign: Don't shoot the
D anist; he's doing the best he cam "
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Here is the creed of William Ellery
Charming:
To live content with small means;
to seek elegance rather than luxury
and refinement rather than fashion;
to be worthy, not respectable, wealthy
not rich; to study hard, think quietly,