Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1883-07-18
NO. "a
ALL SORTS.

, Never clean your teeth with sand
} paper, as the sand is apt to make the
gums sore.
To keep flies off bald head dur
ing a sermon the head should be well
saturated with kerosene before going
to church.
If you don't want evil things said
of you, don't do evil things. 1t is
poor policy to grow feathers for your
enemy's arrows.
Reports come from Berks county,
that green worm, which has not ap-
peared before for twenty-five years, is
at work among the wheat fields, eat
ing off the heads.
In Graves county, Kentucky,
Thursday, man and his son named
Tucker, quarreled as to who should
ride the reaper. The father broke the
skull of his son with club, and the
boy will die.
We would like to see a greater
disposition displayed on the part of
our citizens to engage in manufacture
ing-for it is manufactures that causes
a town to grow and gives it increased
commercial Importance.
A family of FIVE, consisting of
father, mother and three children, were
drowned in the Ohio river, twenty
miles below Marion, Ind, on Thursday
evening. The waves of passing
| steamer upset their skiff
Reports from different parts of
Lancaster county show that the army
worm is busily at work in the wheat.
Leading farmers say that already ten
per cent. of the crop has been destroy
ed in the lower end of the county,
where the worm made its appearance
week ago.
-"1 put secret kiss under the
postage stamp for my darling" wrote
certain young fellow to his girl.
She deftly removed the stamp by
steam, but found no kiss, only some
remnants of plug tobacco and strong
odor of beer. They are not married
yet and not likely to be!
An interesting feature of agricul-
ture in California is olive growing. 1t
is thought that the State can easily
raise crop as large as that of Italy,
which, it is said, sells yearly for $780,
100000. A rancho owner at Santa
Barbara has made $4,000 an acre
from the cultivation of this delectable
| fruit
While many people are injured
every Fourth of July through the care
lessness of others, some have only
their own stupidity to blame Among
the striking instances of severe injuries
thus self.inaicted on Wednesday is
that of young man who exploded a
big frecracker while holding one end
of it in his mouth.
-Asiatic cholera is scourging the
region south of the Suez Canal in
Egypt. AT Damietta ll3 deaths are
reported within twenty-four hours, and
the epidemic is spreading. Vessels
passing through the canal have been
prohibited from communication with
the stations through fear of spreading
the contagion.
| We are panied to learn from one
of our exchanges that duringa game
of baseball one of the players "made
o terrible error" The young man has
heretofore borne good character, but
now, it is presumed, he will be shuned
by oil respectable persons and become
u social pariah. But he should be Civ
en- opportunity to reform. The "terri
BILE error" we suspect, was in not
killing the umpire.
The year 1888 seems destined by
its disasters from cyclones, floods, fires
and panics to pass into history as the
most calamitous ever recorded. There
seems to be some unseen fatality in
the universe, and destruction and
death from some quarter comes as reg
ular as the day. The last on the list
of destructive forces is the appearance
of the dreaded scourge cholera, direct
| in its old line OF travel.
| For homemade disinfectant dis
solve bushelof salt in barrel of water,
and with the salt water slack a bar
rel of lime, which should be wet enough
to form u kind of paste. For the pur-
pose OF disinfectant this homemade
cloride of lime is nearly as good as that
purchased at the shops. Use it freely
about sinks, cellars, cutters and out
houses, and in this way save sickness,
suffering and expenses.
"A boy in Paterson, N. j., put a
lighted frecracker in the bung hold Of
an empty whisky barrel that lay in
front of n saloon. The barrel had
been in the sun all day and was full OF
gas. The explosion of the firecracker
set fire to the gas, and the barrel ex-
ploded with the noise of cannon.
pieces of IL were thrown 500 feet A
piece of the head struck the boy in the
face, injuring him 80 that there is lit
tie hope Of his recovery.
| Twenty Years Great Sufferer.