Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1880-03-03
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Local and General.


Local and General.
Six million hats are made in Berks
county yearly.
PoMoLoGrsrs say this will be
heavy fruit year.
A MoNrRosE toy maker uses 600, 900
feet of lumber every year.
THERE is a scarcity Of oak timber
among car manufacturers.
THE Riot Bribery trials will begin
at Harrisburg next Monday
TIE grand army of commercial
drummers is now on its travels
DAYS KIDNEY PAD. Beside it, all
other remedies dwindle into comparative IN
significance
THE State Normal School opens its
Spring term March 23rd. Address Tor clrcu-
lars, J. A. Cooper, Edinboro-
Mr. WILLIAM H. ORR was elected
a Justice of the Peace in Mercer township, and
not Abner Seaton, as reported.
Mrs. RUSSELL, of West Greenwood,
Crawford county, is curing diphtheria with
nothing but the fumes of sulphur
To READ the papers one would think
that one-half of the American people are Gu
payed in numbering the other nall.
SENATOR JONES, of Nevada, believes
in rotation in Office, on the ground that IL Is
the old cashier who robs the bank.
DoS'T deceive yourselves. "Dr.
SELLERS, Cough Syrup for the cure OF colds
and eouobs has no equal Sold by druggists
at 25c.
DIpHTHERIA. the Nihilists, and the
nStropg Government Idea" continue TO make
Russia a deectable place of sojourn for people
who like quite life.
EVERY aggrieved angler owes 1t to
craft to resist the implication in the current
newspaper squib that ITS the ana'eu'
man who hires haul"
FoRTY thousand children annually
swept awav by diphtheria in the Caucasus dis-
trict of Russia alone Chiefly attriputaoie "
the custom of living in fith
MASSACHUSETTS is to have two I'M
mense new gingham factories, and now, tW9
sunbonnets with a fence between them, VIII
find gossip cheaper than ever.
THREE little boys and one man nave
died of hydrophobia in Cleveland within the
last thirty days. They had been bitten ny
dogs about two months previous
IF tender -egg-plants, toma-
600. G.. -are sown in the same hot-bed with
cabbages. &c. one or the other class must suf-
fer. as the one needs air, the other heat
SOME weeks ago we published the
recent law relative to the terms OF township
officers. This week we re-publish the same by
r. .l,a Gift af hnSp interested.
PUr awav his crack-brain puzzle,
He has climbed the asylum stair;
Numbers 13, ID, IA
Turned his head, and sent him there
BEEcHER has coined a new phrase
ssbeaveuly ydrunkenness"-whchh he applies to
a uerson who has "too much religion. Mr..
Reecher himself is not that kind OF drunk
ard.
Two-FAcED child was born IN
Ohio the other day This is remarkably pre-
cocious. The double-face does not generally
appear in mankind until the reason begins 70
develop.
NEWLY elected Justices of the Peace
are required to file their acceptance at the Of
fee of the Prothonotary and in their accep-
lance state how the vacancy TO which tney
were elected occurred
ABOUT the only State in the Union
where the times, in commercial sense, are
out of joint, is California. This is principally
due TO the efforts of Mr.. Dennis Kearney and
his assistant blackguards.
A BROOKLYN jury, under the Civil
Damage Law of that State, lately gave the
wife Of drunken husband verdict OF twenty
i've hundred dollars against the owner OF
building rented as a rumshop.
RENDERING loose or dry soil firm
after seeds are sown, by roller or by the feet,
is an aid to their termination. But if the soil
is moist when seeds are sown, the use of a roll
Ter or of the feet is to be avoided.
MR.. w. BoRTMAs, the gardener, left
some very fine rhubarb, of this years growth,
on our table few days ago. The stalks were
over two feet in length. He has an extensive
hot house on the old Negley bottom.
THOSE railroad magnates, Messrs.
Scott Roberts. Garrett, Jewett and Vanderbilt,
held meeting in New York lately, the OBJ
iect being to harmonize as far as possible the
conflicting interest of the trunk lines.
A LAD named Golf was caught in
belt at Kimberly, Karns and Co.'s factory, in
sharon, lately, and instantly killed. His
brains were beaten out by contact with the
iosts and his body terribly mutilated.
THE man who is bringing up
family ON an income of six dollars a week will
be happy to learn from the fashion predictions
sthat the spring and summer fashions in ele-
gance and style will surpass anything ever
seen in America"
THE lead pencil of the future will
substitute paper for wood. The paper is
steeped in an adhesive liquid and rolled around
the core of the lead to the required thickness,
and is colored after drying, when it resembles
an ordinary cedar pencil.
THEY have dog tax law in force
in Westmoreland county, and the amount as,
sessed last year CANNES was So, 90, and
the sum collected from this source was g, ,S5l :
SO. There should be a similar law In force in
every county in the State
A YOUNG man named McClymOnds
was arrested in this town last week on charge
of f. & b. preferred against him in Lawrence
county, and taken to New Castle. He is also
charged with fraudulently soliciting subscrip-
tions for the Pittsburgh Gazette.
AN exchange ventures to proclaim
that a piece of zinc placed upon the Goals of
the stove will clean out the stove pipe. The
vapor from the zinc will carry of the SCOT by
chemical decomposition. Persons who claim
to have tried it warrant it to work every time.
AND now it is the Sultan of Turkey
who is the object of the attention of revolution
ists aud several gentlemen have been arrested
on suspicion of being concerned in plot to
treat him to a dynamite banquet. These are
sorry times among the crowned heads, sorry
times.
THERE is just possibility that some
of the astronomers who are sweeping the south
ern heavens with their glasses, ON the lookout
for the alleged comet, may be led into error
The fragments Of good many exploded Presi
Dental booms are coursing about somewhere
in infinite space.
THERE are ten oleomargarine facto.
ries in the United States. One firm in New
York sells ten thousand pounds of this produc
daily. In Holland there are seventy foul
factories, while in Germany and Russia there
are large establishments in which this com
pound is produced.
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