The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-10-15

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Hundreds Of DEVELOPS to greet the dawn;
Hundreds Of Tn5s in the purple clover
Hundreds Of butterflies on the lawn,
But only one mother the wild world over!
Exchange.
PROM THE WAYsIDE
A sack Of potatoes is worth a volume
Of prayer to poor man.
When a widow begins to wear a dot
ted veil her friends know that theworst
is over.
There is no place Ike home, when
al the other places in town are locked
up for the night.
Dr.. William Six, who is nov rusticat-
ing in Joliet prison for having p m
divorced wives, is formerly from Kan
sas He began his career at Pittsburg,
Crawford county.
No one that has paid the Kansas
City Stock Yards company go per ton
for hay and 81 per bushel for corn is
going about the country claiming that
Judge Fosters decision is an unjust
one.
On a railway soon to be built from
the Red Sea to the top of Mount Sinai,
a station is to be located or the very
ground where it is supposed Moses
stood when he received the two tables
of the law.
Nocturnal rainbows are a very scarce
article but western Kansas occasion
ally furnishes one. Not SC very long
ago the people who do not believe in
the old maxim about "earIy to bed"
etc, witnessed one of these freaks Of
the sky,
Cripple Greek threatens to astonist
the country with an Advertising scheme
consisting of one months output OF
the mines, estimated at 100000 in
gold. This is to be placed on special
train and shipped to the PHILADELPHIA
mint.
During 1896 there we're 1905 persons
killed and 5,S77 injured on the British
railroads, SO of the killed being passen
gers and AT employees. The tota
number of passengers carried that year
exclusive of season ticket holders, wal
980,399,677, so that the proportion o
passengers killed was one in 1854, 287
Colonel Winfield Scott Tilton, an
gered at seeing the Wakeeny lanC
office rsceivership go to another thar
himself, has taken down his blundeE
buss and intends pouring a few red-hO
broadsides into the perfdous Leland
The successful candidate, also, is to b
the target for a portion Of the dought
colonel's missels of wrath.
Lucky-find item from Klondike LyT6
"While Ike sigman, the esteemed pre-
prietor of the Big Strike saloon, wa
fishing in the river yesterday, his boa
struck a snag; it proved to be a COX
pound nugget. He will have it take
out and will use it as a horse block
front of his place. Ike is always boun
to have the best that is going.
The Goodlsnd admirers of Branl
of the Waco Tex Ioonoclast, are il
dignant over the assault that was mad
upon the sarcastic californian and al
taking up a collection to defray ii
express charges on a bulldog pist,
that DR. Thomas very consideratel
offers to donate. The pen is mightit
than the sword, but bulldog pist,
properly sighted is greater than eitht
when it comes TO a fight.
A travelling medium who recent
gave a seance in a Georgia town bega
by saying; 81 have been requested
some of the men present to recall tt
spirits Of their wives, who have gol
before. Keep perfectly quiet, friends
in one moment they will be with you
"JOhn," whispered an old man in Il
audience, "Gimme my hst-quickl
don't mind meetin' Molly in heave
but I'll be burned eff I want her to 7
sumo business on earthI"
Last week The REPUBLIC announces
that a Sherman county farmer W
lost for two days and as many nign
in a cane patch. The gentleman
question has asked for a correction
the actual time Of his wanderings
the labyrinths of the cane was only
horre The match he assarts is n