The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-09-14
KANSAS MATTERS.

ana OF course It Is CT the Odd Fellow
order.
A Lawrence philosopher remarks
that small fire draws IS big crowd
as big fire.
Ivy Breeze who lives in Chase coun-
,ty, holds out strong inducements to
some sturdy oak.
The coIored Methodists of Caldwell
laid the corner stone fora new church
building recently.
Fall river at New Albany is the
lowest 1t has been in twenty nine
| years, and still falling.
Saline county is said to o. the only
one in the state where the wages of
school teachers were not reduced.
About the only business in Kansas
/ that has shown q marked increase
this year is that of the well digger.
Thirteen widows live in Centralia.
! But the elder Weller's injunction
seems to stick for ali thirteen is q
| hoodoo.
The man in Saline county who
| hasn't had his leg cut with a corn
knife isn't considered any kind of
farmer at all.
Judge John Guthrie of Topeka is
said to be writing a novel; the scenes
and characters are to be taken from
Kansas pioneer life.
The man who bit off his nose to
spite his face will have to stand aside
for the Emporia boy who married one
girl to spits another.
A. Sinclaire Dunstan is the name of
u young professor at the state uni
versity and he didn't break out of
feminine novel either.
A man was arrested in Manhattan
for bathing in a public place but as
the external evidence was all against
1T the man was discharged.
A Sumner county farmer lost four
COWS the other day as a result of al
lowing them to eat all the green
sorghum cane they wanted.
The Spooners will probably accept
alfalfa at eighty cents on the dollar
at the door in their coming triumphal
tour through Kansas this fall.
The late Governor Robinson was in
early days a partner in the practice
of medicine of DIR. j. G. Holland, the
founder of the Century magazine.
There is a man in Severance who
eats a dozen soda crackers at each
meal, and eats three meals day.
The people call him regular cracker
jack.
The State university ball team will
have several new members who weigh
200 pounds each. The thing for
Baker to do is to get props and
braces.
An Atchison editor has discovered
that youth has its trials. An Atchi-
son boy who had to stand up all the
time on account of his boil has now
sprained his ankle.
Malcolm Williams, the ladykilIer
,cA. z L.
is dragging his feet stealthiIy across
the carpet of the st. Louis variety
stage as villain.
Mr.. Zimmerman, of Troy, is feeding
two bushels of wheat per day to
seventy-tive shoats, and is getting a
gain of seventy-five pounds of pork
per day as a result.
Lentulus returning with victorious
legions didn't have more fun at Capua
in the old school reader than the Win
field ball club had on it's return from
victorious season in Emporia.
A man who robbed Salina mer-
chants safe not long ago has expert
enced a change of heart He sent
the bills back the other day, just as
they were taken from the safe.
Kansas has 100. 617 farms. according
to the report of the census bureau,
and surpassed only by Ohio, Illinois,
Missouri, Texas, New York and Iowa.
A Jewell City man has a new kind
of bit which he tried on a colt the
other day. The colt was captured
after it had gone about FIVE miles
The man it is thought will recover.
The Grand Army of the Republic
has about 10000 members in Kansas,
and the new department commander
has been complimented from head
quarters for the excellent showing
made in his official report.
There Is man in Lawrence who
claims he came to town not only be-
fore Professors Snow and Robinson,
but before QuantrslI: ne should open
his mouth and tell what he knows Of
the origin of life on the globe.
A twelve foot wind mill in Garden
City raises water from "A thirty-six
foot well with an eight inch cylinder
pump at the rate of sixty gallons q
minute, which covers an acre of
ground one and one-half inches deep
IN ten hours and successfully irri-
gates thirty acres IN general crops.
Bicycles have superseded the horse
TO Il considerable extent in some rural
localities of the state, and thieves
have transferred their affections from
the horse to the wheel Now the
question arises, viii the lynching Of
bicycle thieves become as popular as
has IN days gone by been the case IN
regard to horse thieves?
L. A. Buell. of Minneapolis has
evolved a system of photographic alb
str1cting on which he has applied for
a patent 1t consists Of photograph
ing each instrument which affects the
title of the land. and then pasting
them IN n small book When the alb
strs.ct is ccmplete il consists OF q fac
smile of every instrument under
which the land IS held.
In Osborne county Labor day was
celebrated BY the sale of property
for delinquent taxes The questio1
will probably be raised as TO the
legality OF such a sale on that day, II
having been male 4 legal holiday Is
an act = congress.
Aunt Maria-I think you and EIr.
Mann ought to get along nicely To-
gether You know you both like the
same people sIatiIda-Ye s, and what
= better we hate fha same nzorIe 5