The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1898-12-30
SNAP SHOTS.

5EAE EnO AGs
a floating debt is not always a light
one.
HobsOn's fame has been oscuIated
/ into nOtOriety-
Most everyone was an expansiOnist
at the dinner table last Sunday
1t is now asserted by the best medi-
cal authority that the grip Is cOntag-
/ iOus.
Kansas will celebrate the 37th ami
versary Of its admission 70 the union,
/ January ., 1899
Admiral Dewey was 81 years old
/ Monday and will be on the active list
/ but one year more
Smith county has a new kind Of
/ thieves. They chOlOrfOTm hogs and
/ then haul them of
On January 1 the Chicago & North
western railway viii discharge all Of its
| female employees, to the number Of
about 200.
A dispatch says that the wine crop
/ Of France Is a failure But the Mil
waukee crop is reported to average as
7 we'll as usual
A total eclipse Of the moon was wit
messed Tuesday evening. This was the
/ last total eclipse Of the moon that viii
| occur in the present century.
According to the Atwood Citizen the
I first case before the district court OF
Rswlins county has just been settled
| The case had been on the docket for IS
/ years
A naval lieutenant and hero Of the
| late war resigned to 90 on the stage,
and not finding it profitable decided to
return to the navy, but was refused a
| place even as a private.
A Minneapolis doctor has restored
sight to a woman, blind for 10 years, by
the use Of rabbits eyes. The woman
Will undoubtedly be forced to sleep
with open eyes hencefOrth.
The Colby Tribune issued a very
creditahle holiday n lumber last week.
| The issue was printed on book paper
and contained several portraits Of
/ COlby's prominent citizens.
Col. IngersOII has a new lecture ready
for delivery aud the pulpit will relieve
him Of much axiety concerning the
most thorough way Of getting it before
the public without expense
John Sherman is still one behind
/ Jessie Schley. Sherman says he was
about to avert the war but did not
succeed, while Miss Schley says she
"sure huff" ended 1t after it began.
/ OEhEGdL AOWu5 dAOuB LL1 NCLEA al
/ Branch have started a petition for a
/ star mail route, claiming mail can be
/ carried quicker by horse or hack than
/ by trains as they now run on that road.
! Abilene Reflector philosopher: If the
men put in as much time working for
/ the churches as the women do every
minister would wear brOadclOth and
have three servants, a team and a car
Tiage.
By the death of a relative a Smith
| county young man fell heir to a quarter
section Of land within three miles of
/ MarshalltOwn, Ia, a house and lot in
| town and $500 in coin, and the first
thing he did was to get married.
Jack Stewart, editor Of the BazOO at
Smith Center, died there last week. He
was a pioneer newspaper man Of Smith
| county and was postmaster Of Smith
/ Center under the late Cleveland ad-
ministTatiOn. His death was caused by
/ intemperance.
a Kansas City man vas arrested for
/ trying to pass a counterfeit paper dol
lar, but was liberated 1POn proving
| that be had stolen it from a preacher,
not knowing il was spurious. Neither
could he be held for stealing as he had
not taken anything Of value
Legislature note in Topeka Capital:
r. L. AandegrltC Is on hand with bill,
the provisions Of which bar post NOR
tens, shy pots and quarter limits. Dr.
Smith viii introduce it. and Bill Street
i agreed to refer IL to the cOmmitte on
temperance, Of which Dingus Is chair
man.
A pOpulist state house official who
! is too modest to allow the use Of his
name, submits the following sentiment:
/ Purity is as purity does,
Purity much. an aiius wuZ.
A handsum face Is sometimes sad,
bur back Nv II a temper.s bad
An then i We seen homely face,
As sweet as flowers an full Nv grace,
Gaze purity Is as purity duZ,
Purity much an allus wuZ.
1t was at a hotel table in central
/ Kansas. a farmer and his wife were
chatting with a commercial traveller
| former acquaintance whom they met
/ by chance. The commercial gentle
man says: "They may say what they
/ please, but l think a little whisky is a
mighty good thing in its place" "Yes,"
said the farmers wife, "that is true,
and its place Is in corn. fed to hogs"
/ The dinner proceeded in thoughtful
/ silence.
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