Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-03-16
General Notes.

The Chatsworth disaster of last
fall has already cost the railroad COM
pany over $500 900 The culvert
which caused the accident cost about
$400.
The Massachusetts House of Rep
resentatiyes has adopted the bill Civ
ing women the license suffrage by a
vote OF us to S6
The Chicago Anarchists are tiss.
lug the 4 merican Gas again, but no
body Is worried The incident merely
shows that the snakes are ccttiug out
of the ground early this Spring
Up in Nova Scotia they are
building another timber raft, hich is
10 he rugged up like a ship, and sailed
to New York 1t will be remem bered
thBt the old one wen: 10 pieces. aud
the lngs-4everal million of them
are now floating over the ocean.
The Legislature Of Ohio has
passed bill provldi1g for the publish
lug of school books by the state
They vii! be sold al cost to tbs peo-
pie This is what every state 10 the
Union ought 10 do. 1t would save
the people thousands of dollars an
nualy and be better for our schools 10
every way.
There are seven American de-
faulters, back yrreckers and murderers
10 Buenos Ayres. aud it is said that
they are 80 disgusted With each other
that they are not on speaking terms.
No outlaw can ever take an hours
real pesce of mind. no matter how big
a pile be got away with.
Frederick Ellison, who was ap-
pointed Consul TO the lslaad OF St.
Helena by President Cleveland, has
handed in his resignation of the posi-
tion, and returned to his home in In
dianspolis. Ind. He says that St.
Helena is so dismal that he wonders
that Napoleon survived so long as be
did his exile on that dreary rock Mr.
Ellison landed on the Island at night
Had he reached it in the dayt be
says he would never have gone
ashore.
A wealthy Frenchman who has
q barred Of sharks has been cruising
in steam vessel for u year past and
killed over 5000 of the monsters
When he began work in the harbor
OF Havana the authorities warned him
off.
The Sioux Reservation, one half
of which it is proposed to open up to
settlers, contains an area OF 81 600
square miles That is TO say. it is
larger than the State of Kentucky,
and only a few square miles smaller
than the State OF Indiana.
During the last famine in China
it required fifteen days to transport
relief TO the people over distance OF
200 miles Contrast with that the
fact that at the time of the big Chi
cago fire in 1871. a relief train from
New York travelled ], 500 miles in 81
hours.
The inhabitants of Plainield,
WIS, wonder why any one will go to
dime museum to see fat man"
who weighs 800 or 400 pounds. They
see almost every day "a the streets
of their town m4n onlc 81 years old
who weighs G6t pounds and is STILL
growing.
A famine Of one cent pieces is
compelling the Uaited States mint 80
turn out between Ave aud ten taDus-
and day The scarcity Of this coin
will soon be followed by the scarcity
of ten cent pieces, Judging fIom the
hold the dime craze mas gJ5 upon the
people.
Scandal mongers should take
warning fsnm the outcome OF a case
in Minneapolis recently. A mao who
idlv repeated a calumni GUS report
which he heard regarding married
woman was set upon and severely
thrashed by the husband and tie man
whose name had been 30 intimately
associated with that of the woman
he instituted action against his as
sailants aud proved very conclusiveiy
that be bad not started but merely
repeared the slander The decision
was however, that be had received
nothing more than his just deserts.
He will probably be more careful
how he wags his tongue hereafter
"A Chicago "faith cure" chap has
killed two patients. raised three scan
dals, broken two families, and is
now in Jail for false preteusa8, This
ought to convince all people that there
is something in the theory.
An Indiana judge did not know
what a cartoon was. A lawyer
sketched the body of a jackass with
his, the judges. head and face attach
ed as speciman aud was promptly
lined $25 for contempt of court.