Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1923-09-20
FAMOUS NAMES
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has caused all Baraboo lawyers and
all students of law so much worry
and wakefulness. Into Fountain court
came Ruth Pinch of Dickens Martin
gshnZlewit to meet her brother Tom
and in the same court sat for long
hours Dickens himself, creating those
characters which have tickled the
disabilities Of millions of admirers Of
the great novelist. We need only to
mention the names of Raleigh, d.
johnson, Beaumont, Charles Lamb,
Moore and Cowper for the reader to
realize that a flood of memories inun
date the mind, entering this famous To-
caIify. It is said the death warrant Oh
Mary, Queen of Scots, was signed
here and other dark clouds have en-
gmlfed historic figures. Once within
these courts the walls shut out all
sounds Of rumbling car or aggrayating
horn so that one is 10th to believe he
rs in the very heart of London.
origin of Name
When the Romans conquered the
place it was called Llyndyn, the name
probably being derived from Llyn
pronounced lun), pool or lake, the
Thames being quite wide in early
times; and din or dun, a hill, fort, or
DIace of strength. At one time York
sand ST. Adams were superior to Lon
don but in the race for expansion the
city on the river has no rivals II the
British Isles.
london always impresses on with
Its vastness. There are something
like six million or seven million
people, about twice as many as in
Chicago. When one dashes along in
an express train, plunges through a
subway, whirls about in a taxi, gets
"a moving picture from the top Of a
great motor bus, rattles along in a
train, or jogs about in carriage he
thinks all the surplus of humanity has
somehow or other navigated toward
this populous beehive. We ambled
along Rotten Row, Pudding Lane,
Petticoat Lane, Threadneedle street,
Paternoster Row, Fleet street, Cheap
side, Picadilly and other thorough
fares with names just as queer, all
more names perpetuated in war, gov
eminent, art, science and literature
have lived or fingered along the high
ways of London than in any city in
Ghe world. Here came the Romans
two thousand year ago and from that
aiay to this there extends a process
sion of kings and queens the like of
which the world has seen few equals.
They people the pages of history and
euf Shakespeare. All this is of hL
man interest, love, hate, tragedy, pow
ST. and grandure, has been enacted b,
them In these thoroughfares the sun
mas shown upon or the rain has
Dather such heroes as Nelson and
Wallington; such statesmen as Wal
pole, Fox, Churchill, Gladstone, and
Lloyd George; such romantic figures
as Lady Nelson, Mrs. Robinson, and
Mistress Elinor Gwynn; such artists
aB Gainsborough, Jones and Rosetti;
sand such writer's as Dickens, Milton,
g1ibbDn, Scott, Swift, Steele, Shakes.
peare, Shelley, Sheridan, Sterne, and
Stevenson. In various places we saw
where men and women, stars Of the
first magnitude in English literature,
once lived or where they are nov
buried.
"A Place to Linger
There are many places to linger in
London but the place of places is
westminster Abbey, where associa-
7z1Cns for 1900 years hover and abide.
The venerable pile is the embodiment
s0f the heart of English history. Great
men are buried here and great names
are cut in stone. Here lie or there are
monuments to Darwin, John and
Charles Wesley, Major Andre, Dick
ems, Browning, Izaak Walton, Tenny-
son, Chaucer, Spencer, Dreyden, Grey,
kings, queens, lords, dukes and other
E1otables We walked over the graves
Of Ben Johnson, for all the space be-
meath the church is a cemetery with
keen interest. He was portly 7
and during his last years had diff
esuIty in getting on his feet Fearir
ne would be tardy in arising promptly
when the crack of doom came, he
requested that he be buried standing
and this was done The truth is,
tous about doomsday as the finances
of his funeral He had not been fru-
gal when the sun shone and when
the night of life approached he had