Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1882-05-10
GermanyrO America.

Germany 10 America.
The new cable connecting Emden
With the Anglo-American cable sys-
EN- at Nalentia, enabling messages to
De transmitted dire city between Ger
many and America, opened last Satur-
Law week, with the following message
rom the Emperor to the President OF
the United States:
II am very happy to express to you,
Mr.. President, by the first direct tel
egraphic transit between Germany |
and America, my satisfaction on the
of work by which the
friendly relations between both Nations
have been furthermore enlarged"
The following is President Arthur's
message in reply to Emperor VIII
liam's greeting on the opening of the
direct communication by telegraph
between Germany and the United
States:
81 have received with much salts
faction, as the first dispatch over the
new line of telegraph between Ger
many and the United States, Your
Maiesty's kind message. In common
with all people of the United States,
30 many of whom still speak the Ger
man tongue in their homes, share
the pleasure which Your Majesty
expresses at the opening of this new
line of communication and in the faith
that it will serve to promote the
friendly relations which we desire,
and which it will be my aim to pre-
serve and increase.
The Emperor's message was trans
mitted to Washington in nine minutes,
and the Presidents reply in fraction
over ten minutes.
Whenever you are sick and the
doctor tries this and then that, stop
fooling and take Peruna.'
No, the fruit crop is not really de-
stroyed, it is only destroyed in the
fancy of those who wish to bull the
market.
A deaf man lately married was asked
at the club about his bride, is she
pretty p No. replied the deaf gentle
man. No she is not, but she will be
when her father dies
A medicine of real merit, prescribed
by leading physicians, and universally
recommended by those who have
used it, as true tonic, is Browns
Iron Bitters.
Fashionable society is reserved at
present. 1t does not know whether
Mrs. Grundy will go to the springs, to
the mountains, to the seaside or to the
town pump to spend the summer.
Some of the girls of the period are
parting their hair on one side. They
do this because they do not want to
look like the soft young man that parts
his hair in the middle.
A man who has failed in business
three times, was sold out by the sheriff
twice, and is now living on his chill
dren's earnings, has written very
sound and practical article on How to
Succeed
Never set hen in box above the
ground or floor of the chicken house,
if it is possible to do otherwise, as the
eggs dry too fast and lose their vitality.
Much better success may be expected
if the nests are made upou the ground.
The fact that Chinese are arriving at
Victoria, British Columbia, at the rate
of 700 week, suggests the notion that
even were our Pacific ports closed
there would be a few cracks left
through which Chinese immigration
could leak into this country.
A noted physician says many per-
sons simply by deep and rapid inhala-
tions of pure air, can become as intoxi-
Gated on oxygen as if they had taken p
draught of alcoholic stimulants. This
opinion, no doubt, was meant for the
eyes of the physicians wife.
Poor shelter, care and feed will, in a
few generations, make scrubs of the
finest thoroughbred stock. Thorough
bred scrubs are but little better than
native scrubs, and the farmer who
raises either will always be poor.
Breeding the best stock and keeping it
in the best possible manner pays the
largest profits.
A Missouri murderer, hung last Fri
day, said on the gallows that he had
been guilty of murder in the second
degree and hoped to go to heaven. A
contemporary thinks that, judging
from the experience of most murderers,
if be had been guilty of murder in the
first degree. he would have been certain
of going heaven.
While a man was sitting in the
crotch OF tree to saw off a limb, at
Saginaw, Mich, the crotch split as the
limb fell, letting him down into the
opening and then closing on him. 1t
took an hour of chopping and prying
to get him out of the trap, and several
of his ribs were broken by the squeez-
ing.
Since Darwin's death some of our
exchanges are discussing his ancestry.
That is simply superfuous. He has
told us who his ancestors were, and it
is treating him with disrespect to try
and throw discredit upon his state
ment, now that he is dead, by making
it appear that his forefathers were not
monkeys.
A wicked boy got into fight with
his uncle, and biting off his nose swal-
lowed it. He was brought before the
police court, his uncle appearing against
him. This is your nephew, is he p
asked the magistrate. Il am sorry to
say he is.' L think l detect some re-