The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-06-08
NUMBER II
KANSAS MATTERS.

20 discourage the larceny Of BICYCLES.
Hays City has woman who boasts
that she makes all her husbands
shirts
a skull of some extinct animal two
feet in width has been found near Os-
borne City.
The oil discovered in Neodesha
seems to be good for about every
thing but salad dressing.
The Young Mems Christian associa-
ton of Lawrence has found a bicycle
club on its front door step.
There is a sociological club as far
west as Dodge City. Now who says
the rain belt isn't on the move?
The young people of Baker univer-
sity graduating class issued an annual
called Orange blossoms So soon9
a Trego county mover was Offering.
his farm for sale on the streets of
Hays City recently for the sum of 81.
The vaccine virus rate war ut Atch-
ison is growing bitter. 1t is feared
there will be blood shed before it is
over.
The employees remaining in. the
Santa Fe shops will take an excur-
sion to Lake Contrary, near st. Joseph,
June g.
The nursery men of Shawnee coun-
ty planted forty bushels of apple
| seeds this year, mostly obtained from
France.
The hayride party season has
opened in Wichita. The girls of the
town believe that the early bird
gathers no moss
Judge G. w. Carey, of North Topeka,
has been short 100 pounds of his
natural weight ever since he left
Libby prison in 1864.
Although the Lawrence high school
has held twenty commandments,
West Lawrence still has few of the
original buds on hand.
Mumps are said to be general In
Topeka when they affiict the grain
dealers, ministers wives and editors
children simultaneously.
The village of Elmont, near Topeka,
claims the persimmon this year with
baseball fielder whose height is six
feet five inches.
Nermillion's nearest approach to the
magnificences of the French salon is
the presence of woman who smokes
six cigarettes day.
Topeka has fourteen female physi-
clans whose signs hutter ferociously
in the healthy breeze that blows
down Kansas avenue.
Shawnee county farmers agree that
1t has been many years since there
was as good prospect for a corn crop
as at the present time.
man is stocking d Reno county
pond with young sharks. Probably
they will see the work of their pre-
decessors in South Hutchinson and die
Of envy.
The Northern Kansas trotting cir
cult has been formed. II includes
Manhattan, Abilene, Clay Center and
Concordia, where fairs will be held
this fall.
Topeka has a society organization
called the Goose" club; no one is eli
gible to membership who is unwilling
to hire s. hack to attend ten cent
''sociable.''
The president of the bicycle club of
Emporia calls attention to the fact
that decision of the supreme court
of Kansas gives wheelmen the right
to half the road.
Judge J. w. Gregory, of Garden
City, coined the term ''underhow,"
as applied to sub irrigating waters,
and also invented the useful phrase,
''semi-arid region
DIR. Mustard of Lawrence has writ
ten ( novel called the Politician"
and every one knows what kind of
stuff it will be coming from Mr.. Mus.
tard.-Kansas City Star.
A man who wears an empire gown
cut low at the back is advertising him
SELF as ''a Shakespearean actor In
Western Kansas, and tearing up the
carpet in THE Galley Slave"
A Fort Scott liveryman is thinking
of selling his carriages and putting in
stock of bicycles. Well. now,
what can a Sunday young man do
with bicycle, even if it is built for
two?
Sweet Marie is the latest popular
song which is engaging the BARRIERS
and ribbon counter young men of
Wichita. The Lawrence mandolin
clubs will have marie In about ten
days.
The purchase of $50 bath tub by
citizen of Abilene may be taken as
presumptive evidence that there Is at
least one town in Kansas which is be-
ginning to Eecover from the financial
panic.
Out OF nearly 500 criminals in the
Kansas penitentiary there are only
fourteen women. There are some
sexes which society does not desire to
see leveled
Charley Styles, who is the Charley
Berry of Atchison, is plying his allur-
ing art under q New Mexican SOM
Srero. Mr.. Styles claims that, like
Daisy Bells young mans cycle, his
sombrero is built for two.
At the picnic of the ''Platonic Bach
elors' club of Mcpherson, this sum-
mer, it has been decided that the priv
ilege of sitting on the back seat Of
the buggy coming home shall go
around in alphabetical order.
The entente cordiale between New
ton and Hutchinson which has sprung
up since the musical jubilee, is so
strong that young women from
Hutehison come visiting and borrow
the Newton girls party dresses =
Kansas City Star.
The banks of Topeka have over
s., 000, 600 in deposits, only a few
thousand less than the amount before
the financial crisis of 1893.
For the first time In the history OF
Wichita the city jail is without an
occupant. Things seem 20 have about
reached bottom IN the town.
A Brooklyn will. four feet long,
ends with the following words: This