Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1882-01-18

| testimonials.
Somerset county claims the Oldest
church west of the Allegheny Mount
aims. 1t is the Turkeyfoot Baptist
Church and was organized in l774.
Quit buying humbug medicines. II
you are not well, take Peruna. Ii
costive, Manalin.
If a small piece of sulphur is oc-
casionally throw upon the lire tor
smoking bacon, it will efectually pre-
vent shippers and bugs from making
inroads upon the meat; nor will 1t pro-
duce any effect on its favor, save on
the mere surface or skin.
If You have no Peruna pamphlet get
one Immediately. Address 5. b.
Hartman & Co., Osborn, o.
The cultivation of the caster bean
has become an important industry in
Kansas. Last year 55S, ,974 bushels OF
the leaves were grown on 40, 437 acres.
The oil is now extensively used in the
mechanic arts, and there is a steady
and constantly increasing demand for
it.
Commissioner Loring, of the Agri-
| cultural Department, expresses bis ~
tention of making the crop reports
much more accurate and exhaustive
than heretofore His annual report IS
accompanied by a number of special
reports on various branches of inquiry
complied by experts.
| According to the figures of the
Smithsonian Institute, 2l4, ,322, 600
hounds of Goldfish, worth $4,S25, $40,
are annually consumed in the United
States; 3O,OOO,000 pounds of salmon
are canned on the Columbia River. in
Oregon 4O, 900, 600 pounds of macker-
ell are yearly taken, and 100000, 900
pounds of menhaden.
The hardy catalpa, which our West.
ern friends are beginning to prize so
highly, is rapid grower, and the
timber is very durable, there being,
says DR.. Warder. many instances OF
fence posts of this wood lasting seven
ty-five years. In twenty years, in a
good soil, it will make three railroad
ties per tree.
i The agricultural editor of the New
Enqland Farmer is not believer in
unnecessary fencing 1t requires, he
said at recent meeting of the Massa-
chusetts Board of Agriculture, on an
average 80 worth of permanent fence
to keep $1.94 worth of live stock from
destroying s2.S2 worth of farm and
garden crops.
Eggs can be preserved in the best
and most effective manner in common
lime water at low temperature, and
there is no necessity for trying expert
ments. When the eggs are kept in a
liquid they lose no moisture by evapo-
ration, but when kept dry they lose
some of their water, and their quality
is thereby deteriorated.
The Republican Senator from Hi
nois on the one hand, and the three
Republican Congressman from Chicago
on the other, had difference of opin-
ion about whose was the right to name
the Collector at Chicago, and also
among themselves as to candidates.
Whereupon the President settled the
dispute to the dissatisfaction of them
all by nominating his own choice.
Moral-don't quarrel, when you are
after patronage.
[St. Louis Republican,
1t is very rare that the Republican
consents to editorially forward the in
terests of advertisers of what are known
as patent medicines, as it does not
frequently fall out that We can have
positive knowledge Of their merits.
However, we take pleasure in saying
of st. Jacobs Oil from individual ex-
pertinent, that it is a most excellent
remedial agent, and as such we can
heartily recommend it.
A company named the Peruvian
Company, having headquarters in
New York, asserts proprietary claims
on Peru to the extent of thousand
millions of dollars, and furthermore
demands, as an American corporation,
the protection of this Government in
securing and enforcing its title to pos
sessions in the guano fields Whatev-
er the result, poor Peru has little COM
fort in prospect 1t is hard enough to
be conquered and bankrupted by Chilli,
without the threat, in the event of es-
cape from that enemy, of being swal-
lowed alive by soulless corporation.