Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1882-02-22
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Mr.. William Hadeler at the Mara
thon Hotel, Wansau, after extreme
suffering with rheumatism, without
any benefit from physicians or various
preparations. was cured by ST. Jacobs
Oil-Wis. Exchange.
The plan of making vaccination COM
pulsory, the same as in England. is be-
ing agitated in many of the cities
where smallpox has been raging. -
My daughters defective vision was
much improved by peruna. James
Cook, Bakerstown, Pa.
Few people realize the value of
kind word or smile of friendly recogni-
tion. Ithas often revived Respondent
spirit and infused hope, when the per.
SON bestowing it hardly gave the act :
moments consideration. Never refuse
such simple Offering. la es..
Father and mother being afflicted
with asthma, two bottles of Sellers
Cough Syrup has given them . new
lease of life'
When fond father presents his SON
with new band sled, nothing pleaees
him SO much as to find it at the foot Of.
the kitchen steps when be goes after
coal, and have it rear up and throw
him in corner with his head in the
coal scuttle and his mind in condition
no one can describe.
Fifteen persons, including IN entire
family, have been poisoned in Ainneso-
Ia from eating raw ham. 1t would
seem as though there had been enough
trichina poisoning in this country Of
late years to keep people from 30 slight
qualification of the appetite ~ the
eating of raw pork Death by rats
bane is deGdedly preferable.
A lecturer on Manhood says the
average American boy of to day is in
ferior to the average boy Of . quarter
of century ago. Inferior? Why,
the boy of to day can smoke moro Gig
arettes than an average man oftwenty-
ive-years ago could consume and be
can utter more slang in one hour than
the quarter of q century boy could sling
in two weeks.
An incident is related in connection
with the smallpox when 1t appeared
several pears ago in a western town.
The bedding on which o patient
having smallpox died was burned.
and q light wind prevailing at the time
carried the smoke slowly in q certain
direction, in the line of which the small
pox appeared in few days, causing
the death of large number Of people.
During the war Eugene Mergendahl.
hotel keeper of Kingston, N. Y. did
an act of kindness for poor wounded
soldier named Decker, who appealed to
him for aid. Mergendahl cared for
him until he recovt red and told Decker
not to worry about his bill. The sol.
dier departed and the landlord never
saw him again. The other day he ives
notified by an Albany law firm that
Decker had died leaving him his entire
fortune, amounting to $25, 900.
The important part that may be
played in any department of human
activity by the men who do the very
best in that department is brought to
mind signally by the death last week
of Siro Delmonico, the last surviving
of the four brothers who made their
name world-famous as the foremost
caterers of the American continent.
This death, following SO soon that Of
Lorenzo Delmonico, leaves but one Of
the Delmonicos connected with the ex-
tensive establishments built up simply
by providing the best.
The proportion between males and
females in the cities of the United
States exhibited in the recent census
bulletins differ so greatly from the pro-
portion between them in the whole
country that the figures are remarkable.
In the whole country there is an excess
of nearly q million males. The precise
figures are Males, 25,5l8,S20: ks-
males, 1856, 965. But in almost
all the cities this proportion is reversed.
There are forty-fve cities of mere than
forty thousand inhabitants. and in al
but nine the females outnumber the
males
To Refresh . Sick Person