Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-05-18
General Notes.

Tennessee Connor, ber husband, and
Eli Hill, near Beckville, Pamela coun.
ty, Texas, last week Mrs Tennes.
see has been the wife of Mr.. Connor
about twelve years. A short time
ago she met Hill and became greatly
attached to him. Her infstuation
reached climax when she proposed
to her husband to sign over to him
sll her right aud title in the lands
owned by them, for which be would
divide his household goods with her,
and she would take Hill and 60. The
proper legal papers were made out.
and then she went of with her new
affinity.
Speaking of that incident in Cas-
tagnoli. Italy, the wife of the Mayor
giving birth to six children, the cynic
is apt to remark: "Did any get
away ?"
Several girls, while looking for
arbutus, had the strange experience
of sliding down hill when the mer-
curry registered 80 degrees ut Terry
vile last week. The drift Is only lS
miles from Hartford, and it is $50
feet long and six feet deep.
The Dartmouth faculty have de-
cided that the students must drop
foot ball, base ball or general athletics
because of the excessive amount of
time and money required to conduct
them all.
Jennie Gibson, a girl of
seventeen, living with her parents at
Arkwright, n. Y, has never seen the
world by daylight, though enabled by
lamp light to sew and read as clear as
any body. Up to the age of four or
five she was believed to be totally
blind. The parents noticed that after
the lamp was lighted she gave evil
dence of seeing, and gradually this
power of sight grew upon her until
the little one played with her dolls
and toys with artificial light as eager
ly as other children by daylight.
Fifteen years ago woman about
sixty years of age in Maine touched
her tongue with lye and burned
small spot out on the upper side of
it. This afterwards became an ulcer,
and a year ago Boston surgeons were
| forced to remove the entire tongue.
Much wonder is expressed as to how
the woman can talk without her ton
que, but she does, and no one would
suspect the absence Of that organ.
The vocal cords were, of course. un-
affected and the larnyx not injured ia
the operation These organs. which
are the real organs of speech, not be-
ing affected, it is not wonderful that
she can talk Except in the a!ticula-
tion of some of the letters she speaks
perfectly. Her general health is ex-
cellent.
The city of Pittsburg, has come
to the conclusion to abandon the ring
ing of the fire alarm bell in the day
time. The chief Of the Fire Depart
ment, says that whenever al alarm
is sounded it attracts crowds who in
,erfere with the 6remen, and that it
also attracts swarms of crooks"
There are forty-two crucible
steel plants in this country, half of
which are located in Pennsylvania,
thirteen being at Pittsburg Pennsyl-
vania has fifteen of the thirty eight
Bessemer steel plants, seven of which
are at Pittsburg There are also nine
Clap Griffith steel works in this coun-
| try, all but two, those at West Ware
ham, Mass and Belleville. ILL.,, be.
ing in Pennsylvania.
In Minnesota State law com.
pels all agents for srees and nursery
stock to have in their possession a
certificate setting forth the name, oc-
cupation and residence of their prin-
cipals, and statement as to where
stock is grown, together with bond
in the sum of $4,000, to save any citi-
zen of the State who should be de-
frauded by any false or fraudulent
representations in any manner. Any
agent refusing to comply as above
would be liable to fine and imprison.
ment.
The art of lace making is raised
to dignity which shows no sign of
diminishing when founces take 3
years to complete. One of the at
fractions Of one of the large dry
goods houses in New York city is
bridal veil costing 800 a yard. 1t
represents lace-making raised to fine
art.
Nearly 1900 miles of new street
railway track was laid in the United
States and Canada in 1887, according
to the Street RdiiUay Journal, and
over 100 miles is projected for the
present year. az q cost of $9,73S,000.
The substitution of electric aud cable
plaut for horse power brings up the
estimated cost of projected improve
ments in existing lines to $i5, ,33l,-
600.
The national pure food move.
ment, which originated among the
grocers of New York and has extend
ed to the whole country, promises to
have an educating effect on dealers in
food products. The Consumers
Journal believes that it will "create
in the public mind realizing sense
of the Importance of making the food
question q science" Such movements
as these are always of great value to
the people at large.
-TuroG, the most popular clown
in Russia, recently dropped the old
reliable ones about mothers-in-law,
old maids and boarding house fare
long enough to work in joke on the
Chief of Police When last heard of
the clown was on his way to Siberia,
to take u course of calisthenics in the
salt mines there
The influence of the modern pas.
senger elevator on rents in New
York is curiously illustrated in some
Of the ten and twelve story apartment
houses uptown. The facility which
they afford for reaching the n oors far
above the ground, puts all the apart
ments practically on level 30 far as
the rents are concerned Just as big
figures are now asked for the seventh,