The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1900-04-13
FROM THE WAYsDE.


April borrows her weather from all
months Of the year.
Power sometimes forgets itself so far
-as to imagine that it exists for itself,
and not for the service Of humanity.
The expenditures Of the British gov
eminent are said to be now running
about million dollars a day beyond
/ its combined revenues.
A feature Of st. Helena island is
Jacobs ladder" a wooden staircase of
699 steps, with an average slope OF SO
degrees to the vertical
In New Haven, Conn, il has Just been
decided by a court that a man who asks
another for a chew Of tobacco cannot
be held on a charge Of begging.
Kipling's contributed stanza on "The
Wearing Of the Green" is quite enough,
the New York World thinks, to justify
the royal preference Of Mr.. Austin as
poet laureate.
A parOquet which recently died in
the London Zoo Is said to have gone %
years without a drink. Such a long
time between drinks the bird must
have got awful dry.
1t viii surely be refreshing to look
upon the pretty Easter hats resting
]
average man needs a little refreshing
after he pays the hat bill.
Paris is looking forward with much
anxiety to the opening Gifts great show.
One statistician estimates that 80 mil
lion dollars was spent by visitors at
the last exhibition in Paris.
Aman was killed recentlyiu New York
by a heavy vase falling on him from a
third story window. Competent wit
ness aver that his OIly ante-mOrtem re-
mark was: wouldn't that jar your"
Kendall: The worse peace is better
than the best war. This truth, coming
down from Cicero through Erasmus to
our Franklin has never been cOntrO-
verted- The common sense of humanity
Endorses it.
Three presidents and one vice presi-
dent have died on the Fourth Of July.
John Adams and Jefferson expired on
the same day, July 4, 1926, Monroe on
July 4, 1881, and Hannibal Hamlin on
July 4, 1891.
Scrip is the worst disease on earth. p
recently said Senator Blackburn of
Kentucky. sit enjoys this distinction
because the victim is sick six months
after he gets we'll" And the blue grass
statesman it is said has not tasted
liquor for is months past and AYERS
that he never will take another drink.
The British war office has purchased
some small steel shields to cover the
vital parts about the heart. It is said
they weight about seven pounds and
will turn bullets at 700 yards. 1t seems
curious that on the very threshold of
the twentieth century that we again
resort to armOT. The principle, how
Tc q n nvnnIlnr7F and o hahn of
with a vizOr and a heart guard would
be a great protection in the present
conditions Of warfare.
A Boston woman hired an automobile
and started to make a round of calls
Presently she noticed that the vehicle
was moving at an alarming rate and
that the address given the operator as
the first stopping place had been passed.
The occupant of the cab thereupOn
called to man outside to stop, only to
be informed that he had lost control of
the machine and would have to 90 on
until the power should be exhausted.
At the end of an hour and a half the
automobile came to a stop out in the
suburbs, Ii miles from the starting
place, and the operator went back to
Boston for assistance. The woman re-
turned on an electric car, and had to
pay her own fare at that.
The case Of William II. Aswell, for
merly in the employ of the Southern
Pacific company at San Francisco, has
been puzzliDg the medical profession
for the last two years. Day and night,
ii is said, there comes from the head Of
the afflicted man a sharp clicking sound
similar to that made by a telegraph key.
This sound can be heard . clicks and
more a minute, and the noise has often
so increased in volume as to be heard
at a distance Of 60 feet from the patient.
An operation viii be performed on the
mans head in few days and then some
light may be shed on the mystery.
While AswelI was employed in the yards
Of the Southern Pacific company two
years ago in Sacramento a bug few in
to his ear, and from that time until the
present the clicking sound has always
been with him.