Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1879-12-03
Local and General.

LOC8l anu 0oo0I6As
A RAGE for maple furniture is pre-
dicted.
"CoME, haste to the wedding" il
the popular tune.
TIE first regular session Of Forty
sixth Congress opened last Monday.
This is the rock of ages" said the
father after rocking two hours and the baby
still awake.
IT will be lively from now until af
ter the holidays. A big trade in holiday goods
Is anticipated.
Our farmers say it pays to raise
poultry. There is more money in it, some say
than in raising horses.
CALL in at Sperber's and get pho
tograph of your baby. 80 and 81 Federal
street, Allegheny City.
The Witberspoon Institute has been
moved to town for the winter, and is located in
Berg's building, third story.
THE disease of the throat which has
afflicted poultry of this country lately, causing
the death of thousands, has abated.
GLASS while at red heat is plunged
into oil and made 20 hard that mortas and
pestiles may be manufactured in that way.
THE number of people employed by
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, on all
lines and branches, is estimated at nearly
100000.
THE school teachers of Mercer
county have struck against the system of
boarding around, ," and the directors have abol-
ished it.
DoN'T forget the Poultry Fair, to be
held at the Opera House building, in Tony
Rockenstein's old store-room, commencing next
Tuesday.
WE buy steel railway rails in Eng
land. England brings her steel rails from
Germany and the ore Is taken from England to
Germany.
FIVE thousand dollars reward is
offered for the invention of a stock car, capable
Of carrying live animals long distance with
out needless suffering.
CHRIsrMAs cards, on which birds
with genuine feathers are placed against a
background painted in water colon, are
among the latest novelties.
THE borough authorities of Salts
burgh. Indiana county, have issued an edict
prohibiting the circulation Of the Pittsburgh
Sunday Leader in that place on Sunday.
TANNING, one of the most important
Of the industries Of Butler county, has been
greatly benefited by the recent large advance
In the price Of leather, it having gone up
eleven cents per pound.
AND now there is terrific teapot
tempest in Allegheny College, Meadvills.
Really It would seem as though our venerable
seats Of learning should be placed under the
control Of the War Department.
BOB TooMBs says he is ready to
again fight for the South. Bob should remem-
employed by the army, they don't do the fight
ing.-Paiiadelphsa Chronicle Herald.
A FRIEND has handed Us the fol-
lowing problem for solution by our readers {:
How many bales Of hay, each IA by IS by 36
inches can be loaded into . box car that is 32l
feet long, ~ feet wide, and 81 feet high, inside
measurement?
A LITTLE son, aged about three
years, Of Mr.. Albert Morrison, Of Pena town.
ship, this county, was 70 severely scalded on
Monday Of last week that II died the next day.
The accident happened by the oversetting pot
Of hot water upon 1t.
TIE epidemic of ocean disasters con-
trous nature are reported. Heavy gales both
on our own coast and on that Of Great Britain
have caused many wrecks, and in addition TO
this there are great number of collisions.
o. p. COCHRAN, teacher of PEN
manship, &C., at Witherspoon Institute will
conduct night school In Writing, ut the Insti-
tute rooms, in Bergs Building, on Main street.
Will meet at p. NJ, on Wednesday evening of
this week, to organize. Lessons viii be given
in Commercial Arithmetic and Book Keeping
II desired.
THE aim of the Census Office in it's
choice Of special agents to report on prominent
industries, has evidently been to select those
whose names would be guarantee Of fitness
for their tasks. We find Mr.. Goodspeed selected
for railroads, Mr.. Wines for drunkenness, Mr..
Brewer for grains, Mr. Weeks for wages, Mr..
Pumpelly for mining 1t the East, and Mr..
Brown Goode for fish,
PITTSBURGH seem to be q "head
center" for the trade In wagon hardware. A
Pittsburgh firm, Messrs. Lewis, Oliver 4 Phil.
ips, employ about 700 men upon wrought iron
wagon fittings. They control nearly 100 pat
cesses for turning out the different parts by
machinery. The firm makes the necessary
fittings for 10000 wagons per annum.
Two men recently started from Min
neapolis, Minn., on the same train, carrying
conflicting deeds TO . piece of land in Sioux
Falls, and each resolved 70 get his document
recorded first As they approached that city
one Of them climbed upon the engine, slipped
the coupling, left the train take care Of itself,
and rushed on, securing q record of his title
half an hour before his rival, who had waited
for another locomotive.
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