The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1899-03-17
FROM THE wA1sIDE.
-Rudyard Kipling.

Kansas contains more than enough
miles Of railway to enCircle the globe.
To-day Is st. Patrick's day, and the
shamrock IS sprOUting in many coat
lapels.
The Eye says an Oberlin girl smokes
c cigarettes regularly. She evidently is
attempting to take up +the white mans
burden"
Attorney Charles I. Kagey Of Hays
has been appointed county attorney Of
Logan county to fill the vacancy caused
by the death Of A. NJ. Gibbons.
A Kansas City man has instituted
divorce proceedings against his wife
upon the ground that she deceived him
concerning her age, to the extent Of
about u years.
The northwest Kansas conference of
the Methodist church cOnvenes at
Downs, March -. Bishop Fitzgerald
will preside and the conference will
hold over Sunday.
Several members Of the Twenty Third
Kansas regiment, colOred, recently
mustered out at LeavenWOrth, brought
back with them Cuban wives as souv-
enirs Of their service in the island.
There Is a Kansas City burglar at
large that is not wanted. He entered
a doctors residence and stole q full
complement Of clothes that had been
worn In attending small pOx patients.
a passenger train on the Cheyenne
q Northern railroad has been snow
bound for over three weeks near Chey-
enne, WyO. The passengers are not
suffering for want Of provisions, but
there Is little prospect Of them being
released from their frosty prison for
at least another week, the snow being
ten feet deep.
Major DOster of the Twenty-SecOnd
Kansas volunteers, has been appointed
a second lieutenant in the regular
army under the new army bill. Captain
Buchan Of the Twentieth Kansas vol
Unteers, now at Manila, has also been
appointed a second lieutenant In the
regulars Captain Buchan Is a nephew
Of Mr.. W. J. Converse of this city.
Congressman Champ Clark OF Mis-
souri, claims as one of his constituents
the only soldier, living or dead, so far
as history tells, that ever had wooden
leg shot of in battle, for the reason,
perhaps, that he is the only soldier
that eyer went into battle with a wood
en- leg The incident occurred during
the civil war in a Missouri battle. The
One-legged hero recovered from TIE
wound and is still alive.
a dancing master at Gardiner, Ne,
has calculated the distance a waltzer
travels during the course of one even
ing at seven miles. He says that allow
ing six feet for one waltz step, aud the
waltz tempo 90 measures a minute, and
taking three steps to the measure, gives
80 steps in a minute. Giving ten min
utes fOI each waltz, and ten waltZes in
an evening, the waltzer has covered a
distance of seven miles in waltzes
alone.
Descriptions of a recent prize fight
omit no detail of bet or oath; Of bun
ches of muscle; of cruel jabs; of bleed
ing noses and bruised faces; of terri
bic lefts on the heart" and of "falls in
agony" Yet there are other ideals of
many athletics. "Mine," wrote Siddey
Ilanier, 'may have a thread for his
bicePs, yet he shall play ball with the
earth; and albeit his stature may be no.
more than a boys, his height shall be
the heighth Of great resolution, of faith
aud love and knowledge and subtle
meditation; his head shall be forever
among the stars" Is not the antithe-
sis itself a sermon?
The queerest twet or dry discussion
in the state in connection with the
municipal election, is on out at Good
land, says the Kansas Notes editor in
the Topeka Capital. 1t is the custom
there to shut off the water at night,
and TIE REPUBLIC says that Hthe pat
rOns Of city water would like to see a
ticket nominated for the coming NUM-
cipal election, the candidates Of which
are favorable to all night water, and to
that end a movement is on foot TO have
such a ticket placed In nomination"
q u1fnr UIunf that rr0ne RI c1anr af
night viii strike most people as being
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