The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1899-02-10
FROM THE wAYsIDE.

Nellie Hart Woodwork in Boston Journal
FROM THE wATsIDE-
The cold snap awent broke" yes
.terday.
The closer money is the harder it is
to get hold of.
Old King Coal and Jack Frost are
on good terms these days.
The tongue is about the only muz-
zle-lOading weapon that hasn't been
discarded.
An agreeable truth may lie at the
bottom Of a we'll, but disaRreeable
one always comes to the surface.
No coal dealers we're included in the
list Of failures last week reported by
the commercial agencies.
Next Wednesday, the 18th, is known
in the church calendar as "Ash We'd
nesday," the first day Of Lent
Sunday, the 18th, is the Goth anniver-
sary Of the birth Of Abraham Lincoln,
the 18th president Of the United States.
a neighboring editor in giving an
account Of the fast train said: "The
fast mail Numbered through town in
silence"
The trust organization has gone too
far. The mOOnshine whiskey manu-
facturers Of Kentucky have formed a
combine.
When cold chills scamper down your back
And It seems as If your bones would crack;
And when your head aches 1T 20 rip
Then you can bet you've got the grip.
Gen. Miles failed to state as to
whether the embaImed beef buried in
Porto Rico was inferred with military
hOnOrs OF horrors.
The longest canal in the world is the
Erie in New York, extending from
Albany TO Buffalo, a distance of 81
miles. The cost Of construction was
52,54O,SOO.
The Chinese New Year is being cele-
brated 1t continues from February 5
to ID and is observed by the residents
Of Chinatown in our American cities
as we'll as in the mother country.
A Chicago man applied for q divorce,
claiming that his wife hypnOtized him
and continually kept him drunk. Many
a man will believe that a fellow who
throws away snap like that IS insane.
A professor in the College Of Physi-
clans and Surgeons, located in Chica-
90, has been removed by the faculty
upon complaint Of the young women
students who accused the professor
of being unnecessarily blunt in demon
strating his lectures.
Some idea Of the revenue derived
from the twO-cent stamp on bank
checks can be formed from the state
ment that S30OOO,OOO passed through
the New York clearing house the other
day with the use Of only Sl4l.97 in
currency.
The experience Of the Kansas sol
diers who went to Manila are summed
up like this by an Olathe boy: CeIe-
brated Fourth Of July in San Francis
CO; voted in Hawaii; ate THANKSGIVING
dinner in the middle of the Pacific
ocean, and Christmas dinner in the
Philippines.
A man who considers himself quite
an authority on grip wrote to a New
York paper, saying it was almost invari
ably due to failure to keep the feet
dry. ThereupOn another man sends in
a communication saying he knows an
individual who has had the grip for five
years in succession and he has two
wooden legs.
A sup~rstitious naval officer has
called attention to the fact that the
Massachusetts is the third vessel of
the navy whose name commences with
"M' that has met with an accident of
Governors Island since the war began
The others are the MayfiOwer and the
Montgomery. The Maine is pointed
to as another unlucky ship with that
initial. There are just Is naval vessels
now in commission with an" as the
first letter of their names, and-a
clincher! there are just Is letters in
the name Massachusetts,.
Next Tuesday, the 14th, is st. Valen-
tines day. The observation Of the day
is fast dying out, although thousands
Of missives, loving and ludicriOUs, are
still sent through the mails to the OBJ
jects Of love and dislike. The original
saint was beheaded, or supposed to
have been, in Rome on a certain Feb
ruRry Il in the time Of the Emperor
Claudius. The old notion was that
birds chose their mates on that day,
and hence the custom Of young per
sons of both sexes choosing each other
as valentines" for the ensuing year
by a sort Of lottery, and Of sending love
missives to each other. The practice
Of sending a gross caricature to enc
mics, OF persons disliked, is Of a later
date. SHAKESPEARE recognizes the day
in the following cOuplet in Hamlet:
Tomorrow is St. Valentines day.
All IN the morning betimel
And I q maid at your window,