Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1880-02-04
Local and General.

HusELToS's cheap goods will wear
Fowls fed on buckwheat are of fine
favor
IT is now illegal to shoot any kind
of game.
THIS winter is said to be parallel
with that of 1912.
WINTER did not "set in" until Feb
ruary llth in 1853.
THERE is some talk of another new
church being built in this town.
IT is said that for every fog in Janu-
ary there will be frost in May.
EOUT in Nevada intolerable stump
sneakers are snowballed with tired
eggs.
YoU can see a caricature of yourself
in the store windows where valentines
are sold.
ONE male person out Of every
twenty-five is color blind to greater
or less degree.
PERSONS wishing to improve In teach
ing. should attend the State Normal
School. Edinboro.
ROBINSON HOWE, tried in Nenango
county last week for murder OF bis
father, was acquitted.
In this town Monday morning the
mercury stood at eight degrees above
zero. Quite change.
FRESH strawberries are what the
inhabitants of Tallahassee, Florida,
are enjoying at present
THEY say the winter grain has been
mueh improved by the late rains. and
that it is growing finely.
Gov. HoYr stands firm that there
shall be no extra session OF the Legis-
lature and he stands right.
Ir is easy to run down the accom-
plishments of your neighbor, but
harder to run ahead Of them.
10. Cook, the great Boston lecturer,
does not take any stock in Parneiis
method of relieving the Irish.
The report of the County Auditors
can be seen on our fourth page TINS
week. 1t is longer and fuller than
usual.
THIS is the day Of the Republican
State Convention at Harrisburg. A
report of their proceedings is looked
for with interest.
PRESIDENT LINCOLN once SAID that
some people not cnly believed that the
earth moved on its own axis, but that
they were the axis.
McLAIN. who was tried in Pitts
burch last week for the murder OF
Sammy Hunter, was convicted OF mur-
der in the second degree.
A MICHIGAN paper states gracefully
that there were 150,00O,OOO paper
collars manufactured last year, Of which
a leading Michigander wore six.
4 YORK State paper ventures the
opinion that in thirty years from now
eyery cat will be born deaf. This is
much safer than dabling in politics.
THE United States publishes more
newspapers, with greater combined
circulation, than all the other countries
of the world can together boast OF hav-
ing.
AND now they say. that a newspa-
per folded 80 az to have three or four
thicknessess and placed over the chest,
is one of the best projections against
cold extant.
Mr.. J. r. CAMPBELL, of Franklin,
Pa. son of James Campbell, Esq, OF
this place. was married lately to q
daughter of Otis Stillman, Esq, of
Dunkirk, n. Y.
A GENEVA professor has made an
important improvement in the audi
phone, the recently discovered inven-
ton for enabling deafmutes to hear
through the teeth.
A ELoRIsT and proprietor of green
house in Meadville died suddenly lately.
1t il supposed that be was poisoned
by handling artificial flowers manufac-
tured of Paris Green.
REV. HAYDEN, Of Connecticut, who
has gone through two trials without
being able to demonstrate his innocence
Of the murder Of Mary Stannard, has
been released on bail
BETWEEN s., ,O00, 900 and sc, ,000, 900
is the amount by which the public
debt was reduced during the month OF
January. This Is not what might be
called bad showing.
DrpHTHERIA is making sad inroads
on the juvenile population in this
State. Almost every paper we pick
up contains intelligence of one or more
deaths from the disease.
SINCE the advent Of Esq. Donaghy'f
ferocious bull pup in the Sheriff's Office,
it is advisable for law breakers to ex-
ercise unusual precaution. The Squire
is very proud Of that pup.
OCh country Incn CoHtinuC W uIo
tinguish themselves in strange lands
Two Americans have just been ar.
rested in Naples for stealing over &c..
900 francs from Russian.
The almanac published oy the Phila
delphia Times has come to hand and
as usual, it contains more reliable
political information than any Other
book published in the State.
THE Kansas City Times is not fal
ont of the way when it says that Q
silly woman in fne dress bears 9
strong resemblance to fifteen-ceni
dahlia in two-dollar hower-pot.
DETROIT Free Press: The Indian,
with Ouray eat six square meals day
first eating all the meat, then all tn,
bread, then all the butter, and so OF
down until IL comoa IN fhp harga ra1iah