Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1889-08-02


A challenge to battle with General Humid
But. despite all advice to kee? cool, he got
heated.
And kept up the struggle till badly defeat
ed.
He wilted at last and in sheer desperation
Drowned himself in apool of his own per
spiration.
-one of the telegraph towers of the
West Penn is said to be haunted.
There will be festival in the Rink
next Thursday and Friday evenings, for
the benefit of the J. S. Campbell Hose
Company. Admission 10 cts, coffee, lem
onade and lunch, loan exhibition, and BIZ
cycle contest.
Charles Hndman of Fairview twp,
lately lost valuable mare. BY some
means one of the mares hind legs came IN
contact with the knives of the mower, and
the tendrons were severed. and the animal
had to be killed
The Louisiana Lottery has offered to pay
the State debt of s12, 000, 900 for an exten-
sion Of its license for fifty years, and yet
many persons are so foolish as to entertain
an idea they can beat the game by sending
it money. BH=-drd
For the benefit of visitors to Bedford
Springs the Pennsylvania Railroad an
nounces that the Mail Express leaving
Pittsburg at 100 pm. will connect through
to Bedford on weekdays, reaching that
point at an early hour of the evening.
Thieves entered the store of VIM. Hum
phrey of PortersvIlle on Tuesday night OF
last week and stole several pieces of cloth
ing, and then went to Montgovern's tailor
shop and stole new suit, which happened
to belong to John Humphrey, Jr son of
VIM.
A worthy bachelor offers this advice
free to the girls: ''When the right fellow
pops the question don't blush or stare at
his feet Just throw your arms around his
neck look him full in the face, and com
mcnce talking about the low priced furni-
ture at Miller Bros
The latest swindle is in the selling
ribbons Sharpers visit the farm houses,
exhibit rich samples at low figures, take
orders from the ladies, get half of the pay
ment in cash and premise to forward the
goods, when the re- mainder is to be paid.
Neither the swindler or the ribbons are
heard of again.
We are now in the season known as
''the dog days" which is supposed to last
six weeks This period is regarded by
many persons as more unheathiul than that
which Immediately precedes or succeeds
it and as being time when mankind is
most liable to attacks from disease caused
by imprudence in the general habits
The editor of the Wise county, Texas,
Messenger deserves success. He seems to
be taking life easy and filling his paper
with good natured news. Still this appeal
touches our heart:-''We love to live to
eat and eat to live. Bring us quarter $
worth of peas, peaches, pears, plumbs,
peanuts, polecats or 'possums and get the
best paper for thirteecn weeks. We will
accept butter, beans, eggs, chickens df
fully hatched), and any other digestible
vegetables or fruits We eat anything ex-
cept Goldfish and grindstones
The Pittsburg Gazette ended the lO3rd
year of its existence last Saturday, and the
last man 10 renew his subscription that
evening was Nathaniel Montgomery who
resides near Williamsburg, whose father OF
the same name took the first number OF
the weekly Gazette in July 1856, and whose
name has been constantly on the mailing
list of the paper ever since. We congratu-
late the Reed brothers on their ability Il
hold the old friends Of the paper, as it is
an evidence that the paper itself keeps
pace with the progress of events.
Two young men, out berrying, had
strange experience, Tuesday afternoon.
They filled their pals with blackberries,
but just as they were starting for home,
one of them tripped and fell headlong into
bush containing a yellow jackets nest
| The insects swarmed around him and he
received several stings, but he fought then
with his coat and then putting it over his
head managed TO secure the most of hi
berries The other young man helped de
the fighting and was also stung. Thei
friends did not recognize them when they
| arrived at their homes
The proprietor of New York sport
ing paper lately offered a prize of $4,000 fo
any one who could beat the best time eve
made by man running-one mile in
minutes and 10 seconds and a friend o
policeman Peter Slater of MillerstOwI
wrote the paper an account of Peter o
which the following is an extract, "Petel
Slater, who is at the head Of the police
force of Millerstown, is now 6S years o
age and stands ) feet III inches in his
shoes. He has always been something o.
an athlete, and when but % years of age h'
ran mile in three minutes. Chief Slater
now resides at Barnharts Mills, Pa, and
notwithstanding his years is still hale and
hearty. lie clasms to be double jointet
in the knees and wrists, and writes thai
when in his 23d year he could hold hi
breath II minutes by the town clock.
| 1t is said that lourth-clas Postmasters
many of whom have been merchants, hav'
been brought up with round turn by thu
Postmaster General, who has ordered tha
hereafter their salary will depend upon th'
number of letters actually mailed, and no
upon the number of stamps sold. A prac
tice with many of them has been to Grrang
with city merchants to take stamps in pay
ment for goods, the result of which was
large increase of sales of stamps in countr.
Offices and corresponding falling off il
the large cities. Now they are compelled
to count the letters, and their salaries ar,
made to depend upon the actual busines
of their respective offices, and not upon th
sale of stamps as formerly. This chang
of the rules has naturally caused grea
amount of disgust, and is likely TO rende
the quest for fourth.class Postmastcrship
much less eager than formerly.
Andy Root of = ctrolia went for
drive behind his new fast horse last Friday