The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1899-02-03
FROM THE WATsIDE.


A watch under your pillow is a bed
tick.
Elbow grease is the essential oil of
industry.
He that falls to day may be up again
tomorrow
The crOwning event In the history OF
man was Adams wedding Eve
Denmark and Holland are theIargest
exporters Of dairy products in Europe.
Nothing Is ever well done in a hurry
except fleeing from q uarI els and catch
ing heas.
Belgium has passed a law providing
that railroad stations shall have but
one name.
Patti is setting a bad example by
paying her new husband a salary Of
$4,000 q year
A Missouri laTmaker proposes to
wipe department stores out Of business
IN that state
The Missouri legislature, on hearing
Of man VINO had become the father OF
triplets, made up a purse Of $50 for his
benefit
A statistician has figured it out that
every three persons In the United
States have two pairs Of rubbers be-
tween them
The New York Manhattan club is
about TO quit business for want Of pat
rOuage, but "mix me Manhattan has
lost none Of its popularity.
The United States spends more
money by SI6,CCJ,OOJ every year for
postal service than any other nation,
and has nearly twice as many post
offices.
An an ti-eIOpement bill has been in
troduced IN the Wisconsin legislature,
and a lobby Of preachers IS trying TO
prevent It's passage. Wisconsin IS q
Gretua Green for half dozen states
The town Of Hanover in Washington
county, has a population of but SO,
yet supports 13 saloons, who in turn
support the city to the extent Of Sl2O
per year each.
Lives are not wasted IN a lump.
Scarcely any one Is foolish enough to
throw away his life as a whole. But
the wasting of moments and days-ahl
that seems a different matter, though
really it Is same thing"
The Topeka Capital, in relating the
experiences of a member Of the gallant
Twenty Second Kansas on their march
from Camp Alger to ThorOughfare Gap
last summer, has got Bunker Hill
located down IN Virginia.
a Kansas City Sunday paper con-
tains q picture PrOpOrting to represent
q shadOwEraph OF a dead rabbit taken
with the Y ray. The rabbit In question
is shown with a tail at least twO-thirds
as long as its body, but perhaps the
/ X-ray machine added this.
AprOpOs of the poultry show says
I the Boston Transcript, a farmer down
/ in Connecticut tried the experiment
/ OF mixing a little sawdust with the
meal be fed to his chickens. The result
I was so successful that he stopped feed
/ ing his chickens with cOFn-meal and
/ instead fed them on sawdust. He set
| a hen with Is eggs and last week she
| came OF with a curious lot of chicks
I Twelve Of them had wooden legs and
\ the other was a wOOdpecker. Not bad
\ for chickens Matched in the wooden
/ nutmeg state
/ This Is a peculiar world, says an ex-
\ change. One man Is saving money to
I build a house, and another Is trying to
| sell his for less than it cost to build it.
! One man Is spending all be can make
l In taking a girl to a theatre and send
! ing her flowers In hopes OF making heI
| his wife, while a ueighbOr is usiug what
/ money be has IN getting divorce. One
man escapes the diseases flesh is heir
/ to and gets killed on the railroad. An
/ other escapes with only a scratch and
/ dies with the whOOping cough. One
man stands of his creditors and goes
/ travelling to the springs, while another
| stays At home and pays his debts.
A Joplin MOI paper says that 9
woman preacher at that place recently
/ stopped IN the middle Of a discourse
/ and picking up q Bible said she was
/ going TO thrOwit at a man who was IN
I faithful to his wife. As she swung her
arm forward every man in the church
/ but one. ducked under his seat. After
giving the man who stood the threat
| without 6inching q good puff, as the
newspapers term it. the preacher learn
l ed that he was a deaf mute. The reEe-
| iatiOn was a little discOuraging until
the dodgers explained that they had
seen a woman throw q brick at q hen
and knew mighty we'll she would not
bit the fellow she was thrOEing at and
lodged as a matter of necessity, not Of
conscience.