Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1896 — A Unique Republic. [ARTICLE]

A Unique Republic.

The republic of Goust is the smallest In the world. Andorra is an empire In comparison. Goust is about a mile square, and it houses 130 persons.. It has been independent these 250 years. It stands on top of a mountain by the Spanish border, near the edge of France, and it gets along very comfortably without ever mixing itself in other people’s affairs, and without reading the evening papers, or, so far as we know, the morning ones. The delectable 130 govern themselves by a council, one member of which is selected to see that the business agreed upon is executed. Matters go along very smoothly, and Goustians are all the happier because nobody knows much about them, and therefore they art ua» envied.—Kansas City Tima*