The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-01-12
KANSAS MATTERS.
Mr.. just has hard time living in
Abilene.

uen 1Or thirteen years
Home grown peanuts are sold by
the wagon load in Winfield.
The prettiest man in Wichita is now
heir to pocket full of rocks.
tits said that the Rock Island will
build an elevator in Clay Center.
Congressman Charley Curtis has
made his sister his private secretary.
Kansas state university is after
Heffie6nger to coach the foot ball
team.
Strong City, having a new fire en-
CINE, the people are just busting" for
a fire.
There are said to be 10000 men in
Kansas who earn their bread from the
Santa Fe.
A deaf and dumb barber was voted
the most popular man in Topeka at a
! recent contest.
Pumpkin pie takes the place of wine
on the tables of the open houses in
Lawrence January 1st.
Rabbits were never fatter and
juicier for the pot pie than they are
now at 81 a dozen in Kansas.
Atchison can gloat with pride over
the fact that Topeka women still keep
open house New Years day.
Coffee and sandwiches tied with
blue ribbon were served at every open
house in Topeka New Years.
A Burr Oak man wants 5000 rab-
bits, but as there has been little snow,
he is taking it out in wanting.
Mr. Spencer. Adams, an Eldorado
young man, is going to Lima, Peru, to
take charge of a large electric light
plant.
The city. marshal of Wellington has
been presented with a new gold
badge. He never interrupted q
',Shivaree.
A Lincoln eeo9Gdhty man has an orange
tree full of fruit. The third crop of
spring chickens is also being planted
in the county.
Fate has been little hard on the
Kansas boy this winter. She has given
him his Christmas holidays without
any snow or ice.
The Wichita dramatic club which
tackled "l Trovatore" last year will
take whirl at ''Ten Nights in Bar
Room" this winter.
When an Atchison fiddler plays at
rag he always sits near the door so
that he can get out when he hears the
first fighting word.
A Florence man who went bear
hunting in the Wichita mountains,
took the precaution to take a pair Of
tree climbers with him.
Hope Springs must have pretty good
water in them. A man aged los years
just died near Hope. Hope springs
eternal in the human heart.
There are 125 Chinese in Kansas,
and only twenty-five of them have
furnished the United States revenue
collector with their pictures
Ell Dorado society is looking up. n
young man visiting in town is teach
ing the girls to fence. Fencing is one
degree ahead of drawn work "
Pliny Leland Soper has got job as
Santa Fe attorney for the Indian
territory, outside of Oklahoma. He
will go to the territory to reside.
The loving care of an Emporia hus-
band drove a patient wife up tall
sycamore tree and made her stay
there all night. She asks for alimony.
There will be an effort to merge the
Kansas Women's editorial association
with the State editorial association at
the Hutchinson meeting next month.
A Topeka man who asked his wife
what she thought of his three days
beard was told to let it grow for
mercy's sake and get it out of his sys-
tenn.
Over $50, 900 bushels of corn have
been shipped from Muscotah during
the last two months about I62
bushels for each inhabitant OF the
place.
A tramp, in Rossville not only took
possession of a house in the absence
of the family, but cooked meal for
himself before he proceeded on his
journey.
The University glee club is all
right. 1t. has sand. After an audience
of twenty four at st. Joseph it is go
ing back to try it again before the
season ends.
The cross-eyed niger is no longer
in it as a hoodoo in Leavenworth since
a one-armed colored man rides bicy-
Gle under an umbrella IN the streets
of the town
1t was a Kansas girl who listened to
Edmund Russelfs lecture on dress"
and turned up her nose when she
found he had on a made-up tie with
his dress suit.
A Topeka woman who applied for
laid" in Topeka spent the dollar that
was given her to buy coal for a pink
WOOL ld6ClA9DOL SAAab Ncso ~ .
great bargain.
H. l. Prescott, the young man who
represents Harvard university in the
Yale Harvard debate, is from Sa1ina.
He was once in the Kansas state ora
torical contest
The county commissioners of Doug
las county are contemplating drainin g
the '1ake'' between Topeka an d
Lawrence, leaving the Lake View
club house high aud dry.
The handsomest parties given IL
Salina are given by an old bachelor
who deals in groceries. The environ
ments cut no figure in the poetry that
is bubbling over in Kansas soul
An Arkansas City man who stole
hams got six years at the pen. A
man in Arkansas City knows the value
of ham and scrambled eggs and is
willing TO risk a good deal to get it
After rubbing his joints with arnica
and drawing on his ulster, cupid
blazed away and hit two hearts IN
Abilene that have been beating apart
for sixty-seven long years The groom
will be so next month.
There are nine Kansas boys in Yale,
and their overcoats are longer. their
collars higher, their hair pasted fat
ter, their trousers turned up longer
v,Sr.oe 1r,r1far@ than those fsf