The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1896-12-25

she could get divorced in 20 minutes
was not rich enough. Otherwise she
would not have searched in vain.
An old English authority sets forth
that when Christmas falls upon Friday
stock will Do we'll the coming year, but
that croppage will fail. When Christ
mas falls on Monday war will follow.
A Smith Centre man has secured a
$500 Judgment against the Rock
Island railroad. The mans team be-
came frightened at an engine and ran
away, throwing the owner out and
seriously injuring him.
Shout - consolidation
plan become a law q trip of hundred
miles or more would be one Of the
pleasures our citizens would enjoy ~
when having business at the county
seat. Let such a condition exist? Nit!
Some statistical genius has found out
that only about one in thousand mar
ried couples live to celebrate their
golden wedding. 1t would be interest
ing to know what the average duration
of matrimonial bliss is in these divorce
full times.
An accident insurance agent CON-
plains that the Goodland man who is
drawing a $40 per week indemnity for
a strained back, resulting from pulling
an extra heavy jack pot over to his side
of the table, is "sorter" rubbing it in on
the company.
Rev. Plat lectured at the Congrega-
tional church Monday night on "The
Pilgrim Fathers" the date being the
276th anniversary of their landing at
Plymouth Rock. The lecture was we'll
attended and proved to be decidedly
interesting.
While not admitting that irrigation,
in a general sense, has proven a sue
cess, those that have applied the sys-
tenn to garden patches have made
money at it. Garden irrigation and
stock will, in the future, prove a win
ming combination.
A statistician has estimated that q
man 30 years old has worked $500 days,
has slept 5000, has amused himself
1900, has walked 10000 miles, has been
i'll 500 days, has partaken of $4,000
meals, eaten 1900 pounds of meat,
and 1000 pounds of fish, eggs and
vegetables aud drank 1000 gallons of
fluid,
i. L. Drummond, formerly a printer
on the Dark Horse of this city, has
gone into the ministry. The newspaper
business generally fits a person for
most any other calling However, the
experience of living on hope Drum
mond went through in his journalistic
career will stand him in good stead
now.
Fortune is a tickle hussy. There has
been several large and beautifully-con-
structed dolls rallied off in Goodland,
which, in the fitness of things, should
have gone to the men who have small
daughters, or prospects. But did they?
Nit. A crusty old bachelor won in
every case. Fortune might have been
administering a hint, however.
Eastern society circles are stirred up
over the question of how high a lady
may, with pFOpriety, hold her skirts in
muddy weather. While not exactly an
authority on social etiquette, this great
family journal can furnish the solution,
but will have to takeinto consideration
the depth of the mud; if knee deep,
knee high, and so on up or down in
graduated scale.
Last spring a year ago, George Hail.
son of n. W. Hall, fell from a wagon
and injured his arm. A certain physi
clan was called in to ascertain the
trouble and pronounced it a fracture
The arm was "set," but the boy never
recovered use of the member. A few
days ago q physician examined the arm
and found that it had never been brok
en-, but was dislocated. The arm is tc
be put back into its socket as soon as
the boy, who is now i'll, is sufficiently
recovered.
The word trocha is of such frequent
occurrence in dispatches and news
| from Havana that it seems likely il
time to become incorporated into the
English speech. An explanation hav
ing been asked of the term, which il
pronounced, with the accent on thu
! first syllable, it may be stated tina
originally it denotes footpsth, path
way OF sometimes a short cut. During
the present Cuban unpleasantness it,
Specification has been applied to
fortified high road.
It has been the custom for years o.
finding homes in "anarchistic" ~ Kan
sss for the waits of hOlier-than-thol
New York. Just the other day car