Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1884 — Some Left Over. [ARTICLE]

Some Left Over.

Two or three years ago one of the appropriations in the River and Harbor bill was the sum of $15,000 for improving Goose Creek, Habana. The Government Engineer for that district succeeded in finding said creek the other day, after a search of twenty-six months. He found a rivulet three miles long, six inches deep, and throe feet wide, and on the banks he found a solitary settler. , >s , f “The government has appropriated? $15,000 to improve this creek,” observed the engineer. ■ “I know, it, and I’ve been waiting,” was the reply. “I don’t see what improvement is needed or can be made.” “Reckon not, being as you are a stranger, but thal ’ere cash was appropriated to shovel down this "ere bank so that my old mule could git down to the water without breaking hi» infernal back!” J, The improvement of Goose Creek was made at the cost of $3, and the engineer will either have to turn the current up stream or send the rest of the appropriation back to the treasury.— Exchange. • r. -ri t ■ 1 Matter in varied forms is the embodiment of the universe.