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Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1889-10-18
1HECITI2EN
MISCELLANEOUS.
Eel Skins for Rheumatism.


Eel skins for rheumatism. 1t is quaint
idea, and sounds a good deal more like an
ancient and exploded superstition than the
accepted remedy of sensible men. Never
theless eels skins are largely in demand,
and great many people in various parts
Of the country wear the dried skins as fully
accredited cures for rheumatism. \ PaH
Mall Budget reporter the other day paid a
visit to Billingsgate and made some in
quiries One of the largest eel dealers in
the great London fish market was seen,
and at once gave some interesting informa-
ton on the subject.
well. you know he said, I'VE don't
skin eels here We sell them in quantity
and alive All the same, | have heard a
good deal about the employment of eel
skins for the cure of rheumatism and
though have never used them myself, for
| am thankful to say | DO not suffer from
the complaint, l do know of numbers of
eaess in which they have been used with
complete success. Our men are often ask
ed get few skins, and they send them to
all parts of the country. They get a few
pence or q tip of some kind for bundle of
skins, but don't think there is any regu-
lar trade in them"
Glow are the skins usedf'
"They are stretched on board and dried
in the first place, then. to make them pli-
ant, they are slightly moistened and tied
around the suffering limb. They are worn
as garters, anklets, bracelets, and armlets.
They are woven around the waist-next
to the skin of eourse-for lumbago and
sciatica /"
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1889-10-18
Inventions and Wages.

Some paper has started the silly ques-
ton. "Do Inventions decrease Wagesl"
Certainly they do not. On the contrary,
inventions increase wages, shorten the
work day, and decrease prices. In fact,
inventions constitute the only possible
way BY which labor can be emancipated
from drudgery, long hours, and poor pay.
Inventions are increasing every year, and
wages are constantly advancing in all
countries where they are utilized. Take
calico as an example: There are persons
now living who can remember when calico
sold at % cents yard. 1t now sells at s
cents This great reduction in price was
effected by inventions. In the meantime,
wages have advanced very greatly. A
days wages will now buy as much calico
as weeks wages would fifty years ago.
Calico is selected as an example, but the
same facts are true as regards other manu-
factures.
Any one, no matter whether laborer, a
loafer, or a capitalist, who talks against
inventions talks against one Of the very
greatest material blessings that has been
vouchsafed to the world, and it is astound
ing that any person can be found who is
so ignorant or so rash as to condemn them.
Scientific american
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1889-10-18
II Don't Paw.

to use uncertain means when suffering from
disease Of the liver, blood or lungs, as bill
business, or oliver complaint" skin diseases
scrofulous sores or swelings, or from lung
scrofula Commonly known as consump-
ton Of the lungs) when DR.. Pierce's Gold
en- Medical Discovery is guaranteed to cure
affections, taken in time. or money paid
for it will be promptly refunded
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1889-10-18

The receipts of the EifFel tower CON
tinue to increase at great rate. Up to
July 16 the total amount received from
visitors ascending the tower was 1880, 600,
and during the week ending July 16 the
amount received was 1000 At this
rate the structure will be more than paid
for before the close of the exhibition Be
sides the money paid for asccnts, the rent
al charged TO various concessionaires
amounts to large sum. A new attraction
has been recently added On the second
platform letter box has been installed,
and post cards. provided with special
Eifiel tower postage stamp, are on sale
A vast number of people take pleasure in
writing from this height and knowing that
their letters will be collected from the tow
er box.
Natures foliage painters are getting in
their work.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1889-10-18

A new cement, for securing iron into
stone, is described in some of the foreign
papers The cement is made by melting
resin and stirring in brick dust, which
must be finely ground and sifted, until a
sort of putty is formed, which, however,
runs easily while hot. In using, the iron
is set into the hole in the stone prepared to
receive it, and the melted putty poured
in, until the space is filled; then, if desired
bits of brick previously warmed, may be
pushed into the mass, and little of the
cement thereby saved. As soon as the
whole is cool the iron will be firmly held
to the stone, and the cement is quite dura-
bic and uninjured by the weather. while
unlike lead and sulphur, it has no in
furious effect on the iron.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1889-10-18

this terrestrial ball close figures ano no ouD' eS
would like to get closer they do it. We would IKE 10 MAKE CLOSER
room Tor eoucu "
be cut into the coso price, anu '
would be digging the ground own feet Already we are w
sell large quanlues a' h prices
entlre ~ -
built addition wnlcn se No
the largest ana Dese nen M "
Clothing Hats
Mufiers Gloves Nhen hupoe
Trunks, Vaise Jewey anu
continually and long there
the top the add arc
good goods honest
We business with energy s' anu
If the summer
time and we cut tne c
conference and convince bargain is always IN season. w"
the sale 49,. houou;ro
that uhe
~ terrible to-naoes traveller and ghten tne FARMER
the SALT sehng sea- 1h'
sand
wling sand The woro wal" M
compensated by the aco '
these hngs
anything n no nater now ~
welassorted STOCK OF new anu
reckless
the After seeing 'ne
Of resist
difference between
and
we know YOU can carefully think deeply you Will Certainty
patron
public for past favo ana hope
Yourver humbly servant
D. a. HECK, The Champion Clother and furnlSnel,
No II NORTH MAIN STREET, DUFFys BLOCK BUTLER PA
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1889-10-18

Corrected to fast time-One hour faster
than schedule time.
Trains leave Butler for Allegheny City at
4:20 and 1915 a. IN, and 1855 and and 6:25 p.
m The New Castle and western mail leaves
at S:45 a. M, and the Chicago 4 Western ex-
press at l:50 p. III.
Trains leaves Butler for the North at 1915
a. m, and $3.50 p. IN.
Trains arrive at Butler from Allegheny at
1915 a. III. and 800 and $50 p. m, from AL
legheny, New Castle and the West at 1910
p. m. and from Gallery at $40 p. IN.
A tain arrives from Foxburg at S:45 a. IN.
and from Kane at 6:20.
Trains connecting for Butler leave ALE
gheny at 7:i0 and 1000 a. III. and 40 and
$50 p. IN.
Sunday trains arrive from Allegheny at
1918 a. m. and 500 p. m; from New Castle,
Youngstown aud Chicago at 1910 p. m.
Leave for Allegheny at 1915 a. IN. and
G:25 p. m; for New Castle, S:45 a. IN; for
Chicago at 1:50 pm.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1889-10-18
RAILROAD TIME TABLES


WEST PENN IL H.
On and after Monday, May 13, 1888, train
will leave Butler as follows:
MARKET at 6:l5 m, arriving at Alleghe.
ny at 9:l0 q. M; connects east for Blalrsyille
with Day Express, arriv ing at Philadelphia
at pm.
EXPRESS at $3.50 q. m, arriving at Alleghe-
ny at 1896 a. M; does not connect for the
east, but connects with A. V. K. r. north
and south.
MAIL at 2:35 p. M, and goes through to
Allegheny, arriving there at 4:40 p. m; con.
meets east for Philadelphia.
ACCOMMODATION at 300 p, m, and con-
meets at the Junction with Freeport Accom-.
mediation, arriving at Allegheny ut 1920 p.
m, and connects east as far as Apollo.
Trains connecting for Butler leave Alleghe
ny at $40 am, 3:l5 p. IN. and 5:45 p. m.
Trains arrive at Butler at 1890 a. IN. and
500 and 500 p. IN.
PITTsBURG, sHENASGo * LAKE ERIE r.. II
On and after Monday, Dec. II, 1888, train
will leave Butler as follows.
Corrected to fast time, l hour faster than
schedule time.
Trains leave Butler for Greenville from
the Pittsburgh and Western depot at 700
leaving the =. d. w. depot in Allegheny
city $40 a. IN. and $50 p. m. fast time
connect at Butler with trains on the S.
q A.
Trains arrive at Butler from Greenvile, ,fas
time 1910 a. m, 2.25 and 6:20 p. III.
and connect with trains on the p. & w.
arriving at Allegheny at l2:05 p. IA. and 500
and 1923 p. m, fast ti1e.
Trains leave billiards at 5:45, and 1900 a.
m, slow time, and arrive at g:lO a. IN. and
$50 p. IN. Both trains connect at Branchton
for Butler and Greenvile.
The train that leaves Butler at a. m. con-
meets at Shenango with train on y. Y. Z. IL
o., arriving at Cleveland at 1880 p. m, and
Cincinnati at 100 p. m, and Chicago at
1880 y. IN. IL also connects at Osgood with
l.. :. u NJ. s., arriving at Cleveland at 1850
in Erie ll:47 a. IN, Buffalo $50 p. IN. and
New York 5:Ij q. III. all Central time.
The 1890 train connects at Mercer for Oil
City, arriving AT 1880 p. IN. and at Sheuaugo
with n. Y. l.. u o., arriving at OIL City at
$50 .. IN. Buffalo p. m. and New York $3.50
q. M, slso connects at Osgood with l.. ). &
~ :. for Franklin and OIL City.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1889-10-18

$500 offered for an incurable ease of
catarrh in the head, by the proprietors of
DIR. Sage's Remedy.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1889-10-18
The Waste By Bad Roads.

Prof Sha1er, in a well considered article
in .Scribner's Magazine, makes this state
ment: "If we take the misapplied expenses
of our country ways, if we count at the
same time the many social disadvantages
which they bring to the people, it is prob
able that the sum of the road tax in this
country is greater than that Of our ordinary
taxation. From some data which | have
gathered in my personal experience with
roads, am inclined to think that even in
New England the cost to the public arising
from ineffective road-ways, as well as from
the waste of money expended on them,
amounts to not less than an average of ten
dollars a household. In this reckoning |
have included the loss of time and of trans
porting power of vehicles, the wear and
tear of wagons carriages and the beasts
which draw them. 1t is probable that the
expenditure in this direction is greater than
that which is incurred for the schools or
any other single element of public interest.
| am inclined, indeed, to think that it
comes near the sum of all our State and
federal taxation together"
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1889-10-18

"A physician declares that 'if the onion
were generally eaten there would be no
diphtheria, rheumatism or gout" Yes
and then Juliet would remark:-'Sweet
Romeo, the breeze is blowing from thee to
me. Please knecl on the other side or
hand me also an onion from thy knapsack.
"A newly married Oil City couple pub
lish card in the papers returning thanks
for presents bestowed, giving the names Of
all the donors Of wedding gifts. THIS looks
funny at first sight, but it is in just as form
as the custom of returning thanks in the
public prints for funeral favors.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1889-10-18

The utmost care is used in preparing
Hoods Sarsaparilla. 1t ia pure honest and
reliable
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1889-10-18
The Result OF

Doug business on the square
is always satisfactory. People
prefer to deal where they can
get good honest goods with no
fancy prices. We have the
finest line Of Hats, the finest
line of Furnishing Goods and
the lowest prices in Butler.
We buy right from the fac
tories for cash and our custo-
mers get the benefit. A com
parison of our goods and prices
sells them. Light-colored stiffs,
straws and summer underwear
away down now.
COLBERT q DALE,
20 S. Main street,
Butler, Pa.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1889-10-18

RELIABLE AGENTS WANTED
To solicit Subscriptions IN every School District
In Pennsylvania.
Daily Telegraph, So per year.
Daily Telegraph and Dickens Works, 50.
Daily Telegraph and Waverley Novels, S5.
Daily Telegraph and Family Physician, So.
Daily Telegraph and Texas Siftings, 50.
Daily Telegraph and Fruit Drier, s. 80.
The cash must accompany all orders. and be
addressed TO
N. W. MCALARNEY, Manager,
Harrisburg, Penn'a.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1889-10-18

Acute rheumatism is an inflammation
of the joints, marked by pain, heat and red
ness. With these symptoms apply Saliva
ton Oil, the great pain-cure at once.
Price 25 cents n bottle
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1889-10-18
FOR SALE,

The unae gned offers tor sale his general
stock of fbkNIItRE, and his rNDERTA X
INe business located IN Prospect, Butler coun-
T.. ia. The stock Of Furniture is an new and
WI ~ spld al hrst cost, and / also have "A full
line ~ ca1kets-from the smallest TO the larg-
est. trimmings, good heaTse. slaighs IuIn-
Der and everything pertaining 10 the business.
Im mediate possession will be given, and the
business Is enough 10 Keep one man constantly
em mpl0yed. and occasionally require help.
Apply to or address
G. M. EDMUNDSON.
Prospect +
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1889-10-18
a HAPPY COUPLE.

THIS happy couple have agreed to get
married, and they are going to do it
very soon. Every body said it was
about time. But she informed him that
there was only one request she wished to
make to conclude the contract, and that
was that he promised to buy his wedding
outfit at the reliable and trustworthy house
of D. A. HECK, who always sells clothing
and furnishing goods at the very lowest
possible prices. He took the advice, and,
happy to say, was soon the happiest man on
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1889-10-18

Nothing tries the patience of a man more
than to listen to a hacking cough, which
he knows could be easily cured with DR.,
Bulls Cough Syrup.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1889-10-18

Sick headache is cured by Hoods Sar-
saparilla, the peculiar medicine. Sold by
all druggists.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1889-10-18
FOR SALE.

/ will sell the real estate in which the
business is now conducted. consisting OF a cor,
ner lot 6oxl2O feet fronting on the principal
street OF the town, and on which two two-story
store rooms, a shop. six-room frame house
with good cellar barn and all necessary OUT
buildings are erected. Ihe lot mas never ihi-
ing well OF good water.
I will also sell my Franklin twp; property.
consisting of Il acres Of good level nice land IN
a high state of cultivation and all sown to grass
with good and new six-room house, barn, good
orchard, two wells-one soft and one mar l-anu
all necessary out buildings. ,r>,
Prospect. Pa
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1889-10-18

A good milk thermom
eter and strainer ac-
compsuys each churn
What one OF our pat
rons says of the Prodi-
gyChurn afterthorough
ly testing it.
At Home, Washing
ton tp.. Butler Co. IA
March 10, .o~9.
lMessrs Shira &C
4 Hdys.- Gent ,men:
This will certify hat !
have been using one of
your churns about six
months and ! can cheer
fully recommend it as a
grand success in every
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1889-10-18
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LOOK! READ!

have enlarged my store-roC n, In fact, made
II almost twice as large as II was before and
have also increased my stock. l have, by far,
the largest and best selected stock OF
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-11
AN IEvID1oUs CONTRAST.

The remarkable disclosure made in New
York last week Of the nature of the
trust organization, which permits the officers
Of trust to use the money of the organiza-
Jion ''to support the market for certificates, %
has another phase beside the one already
pointed out, of the facility which it affords
the managers of these anomalous concerns
to fleece the unwary people who put their
money into certificates. That is the remark
able difference in the application of such
principles to wealthy men and to ordinary
ones
1t is not presuming anything to say that
If some cashier or clerk in the employment
of the Cottonseed Oil Trust had used S., 900
in speculations on whatever excuse, he
would have been promptly lodged in Jail.
It is only where the missppropriation is
counted by the half million and the specu-
lators have the position and influence of
millionaires that it is discovered that they
have no legal liability, and that the best
thing the owners of the money can do is to
take whatever is offered to them.
When the law permits millionaires to do
with impunity what ordinary men are put
in prison for, there is something radically
out Of adjustment in our legal system.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-11
WISDOM FOR WOMEN

Mrs. Jenness Miller-an bowl saws that
no woman should ask her dressmaker what
she ought to wear. Most righteous prophet
of dress reform, you have won the admira-
tion Of millions OF husbands, fathers and
other bill-fOoters by that word. We repeat
for the benefit of our fair readers: Do not
listen to the voice of the dressmsker, under
any circumstancesl The dressmaker is as
shrewd as the serpent and full well she
knows how to enthrsl her victims.
The neW-dress question, over which our
hcmes are agitated as regularly as season
follows season. would lose its gigantic pro-
portions IL the dressmaker were not an &C.
complice in the conspiracy. 1t is the dress
maker who tells Seraphina that her rival,
Angelina, has bought an evening dress that
is sublime combination Of moonlight and
gray clouds, dainty thing of silk and laces,
at bargSin-only so many hundred dollars.
And Seraphins, Queen Bess in the plenti-
tude Of her wardrobe, begins to sigh for
something in the way of sunlight and dew,
which shall outshine the robes Of the odious
Angelina. Then is the dressmaker's
chance. She must insinuate; she does
insinuate, and in the course of time Sera-
phiGa's papa pays the bill, just as Angelina's
husband paid hers. The dressmaker's ad-
vice, whatever it is, is costly to man in the
background always. 1t is the dressmaker
who sovs the seed which grows into dresses
innumerable and unnecessary. Mrs. Jen-
meas Miller knows this when she says no
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-11
NAMES AND CONSOLIDATION.

The diseomforts of the Mansfield people
from the similarity of their name to other
the Mansfield, in Tioga county, and the
proximity of Charters borough, which also
has a double in CHARTERS station at the foot
of the valley is producing decided sgita-
ton for a consolidation and change of
names. The advantages of consolidation
which will make a thriving municipality
of s, 900 or 10000 people are obvious. The
adoption of a name which will be expressive
of the prosperity OF the thriving community,
and the beauty of its site may be a matter
requiring the exertion of considerable taste;
but we have no doubt that it will be we'll
done. With the CHARTERS valley booming
as it now is, its chief town should make the
best Of itself, both in name and in municipal
organization.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-11
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.

NJ. DE LEssEPs will be "a years of age on the
18th of this month.
COLONEL CASsIUs N. GooDLoE, of Ken
tucky, could have had the Russian mission had
he desired il, after Mr.. Rices death.
COLONEL SwoPE, who was killed by Colonel
Goodloe at Lexington, KY, last Friday, bore q
striking resemblance to Colonel Robert g.
Ingersoll
FRANK r. STOCKTON lives at Madison N. ].
He is fond of rural life, and his wife's tastes
agree with his. Mr.. Stockton will remain at
his home in Madison until Thanksgiving Day.
after which he will go to Washington.
SAMUEL ]. RANDALL is so ill in Washington
that he is unable to leave his bed He has not
progressed toward recovery as rapidly as his
physicians thought he would, He spends his
time in reading and debating. His wife never
leaves his bedside.
JUDGE LoNGwoRTH, of Ohio, who was re-
Gently appointed Colonel on Governor For
aker's staff, has countermanded the order for
his new uniform. It would hardly pay to get
IT, as he would have but one opportunity to
wear it and that at the Inauguration of Gov
ernor-elect Campbell.
SIR JULIAN PAUNcEFoTE, British Minister
at Washington, spends much of his time in
driving and walking with his four daughters,
Maud, Sybil, Lillian and Audrey. He is de-
lighted with Washington, and considers it one
of the pleasantest cities in the world. Lady
Pauncefote is still suffering from a severe
indisposition which was caused by the stormy
weather encountered during her voyage from
England.
IT is related Of Cyrus W. Field that when he
owned the Mail and Express he asked his man
aging editor what certain member of the edi-
torial force was doing. That's Mr.. -, our
exchange editor" replied the managing editor.
We'll" said MT. Field, frowning, 'ft's my
opinion that he isn't worth his salt. AS often
as have been In his office I've never seen him
doing anything except read newspapers, and
he's always got big pile of 'em in front Of
him
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-11
AN EFFoRT OF HuMnR.

The objection to the innocuous theory Of
Governor Hill's late reference to encyclo-
pedias, to the effect that the report was in
the printed report of his speech before he
went South, is met by the New York Sun
in the following shape:
Mr.. Flowers speech, like Governor Hills,
must have been prepared before leaving home.
What is more natural than to suppose that Mr.
Flower submitted copy of his proposed re-
marks to the Governor before they started;
and that the latter. with quiet twinkle in his
eye, aimed harmless and good-natured joke
at friend whom he knew to be too substan-
tial and sensible man, too good a fellow, too
little wrapped in pompous seIf-contemplation,
to take the slightest offense?
This is ingenious, if not ingenious. Pos
sibly it may be accepted by some people as
credible that the New York statesmen be-
fore leaving for the South, submitted their
famous remarks about the Lacadaemon-
ians to each others revision; and that the
result of Governor Hills study on the snb-
ject was the production of the brilliant re.
mark that he had not brought his encyclo-
pedis along with him. But if so, the Gov
Sun to say nothing about it.
That production of the statesman-like
mind, conceived in the leisure of his library
and perfected by his deliberations on his
journey TO Atlanta, is not calculated to
arouse admiration for its brightness. 1t
does not present the same objection to his
advancement as the theory which has been
stated in the late S. S. Cox's case, that no
humorist can be President; for the universal
judgment will be that the deliberate produc-
tion of that gem Of thought as joke, ,Iis only
one in its unconscious aspect. On the con-
trary, the American people will unanimously
come to the conslusion that the man who,
after weeks of thought, presents that remark
as an effort of humor has no business to as
pire to be President ofa nation of American
jokers.
The theory ofthe Sun that Governor Hills
encyclopedia remark was prearranged and
long-considered joke, stabs the Governor in
the house of his friends.