Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1890-01-24

/ tween New YORK and Chicago Tor the
Worlds Fair, by giving both the necessa-
~ Custom House privileges, and en-
eouraging rival exhibitions
AT the meeting of the stockholders of
the Plate Glass Co, Tuesday, J. \. Cham
hers, W. f. Schmertz. Sellers Mckee.
" III. Loefiler W d. Wood. u. f. Wheel
er and J. " Kennedy were elected diree-
4 tors
The grippe has a bad effect on ones
temper \ Philadelphia physician, writ
ing for the Medicqi NccS, mentions one
ease. that Of vely refined lady, who
sworc at her doctor every Time he entered
her roJm.
The Millers' Keystone Bag Co., will
locate their paper mill at Irwin Station, on
the p r. r., the people Of that town hav-
ing offered them a site of five acres free.
They propose making - tons of bags suit
able for holding flour, every day.
This has been bad winter for song
writer's The authors of MARY had a Lit
tie Lamb, and ''There is a Happy Land
have died lately, and it is not expected
that the author of "MeGinty" will be al
lowed tG outlive the season.
| Now that James 6. Blaine is seriously
i'll the papers are noting the fact that he
was great lover of raspberry jam, when
a.boy, in fact that he positively dotted on
it. Many.a G4} mother will be delighted
to hear Of tifIs1triking resemblance of the
f'Plumeid knight to her own darlings
pr A. A. Eelty has opened an Office
in the Kctterer building, near the Hotel
Vogeley, on Main ST. He ca. .Le here from
Prospect where he practiced medicine for
many years, aud he has the reputation of
being reliable and responsible physician.
Spelling bees are again becoming pop
ular in the rural districts as a means of en-
tertainment these long winter evenings,
and deseryedly so. They afford amusc-
ment TO the audiences, and are the means
of making the contestants polish up their
knowledge of words and letters.
-Messrs Joseph Mangel and John Glib
son are opening a coal bank on MangePs
place in Mddlesex twp. The. oilwell
drillers told them of 12-foot vein, sixty
five feet below the surface, but they will
be satisfied with less than that, and are
shafting to the vein. They expect to have
coal for sale by the latter part of March.
The influenza has largely increased the
death rate in Philadelphia and other large
cities. While but few die from the first
stage of the disease many deaths result
from inflammation of the lungs, directly
traccable to la grippe. Nearly one hun
dred deaths in Philadelphia last week were
from lung disease, caused by dregs of in
fiucnza.
Tuesday, Feb. Is, is the date of th e
Spring election. Persons willing to serve
ON the Council or School Board should let
il be known, Immediately. Some heavy
interests will be involved in Butler this
year, and we want men on the Council
free from business iealousies. Names
should be suggested at once, so that public
opinion will haYe time to crystalize into
something like an Intelligent choice and
the hap hazard style of patching up tick
ct on the eve of the election be averted.
That was q curious case up in Clarion
county. One man bought a bull from
another, both men being fully aware of the
animals visciousness. The bull killed his
purchaser in few months, and the widow
of the purchaser brought suit against its
former owner and received $3.50. On the
same principle the widow Of man who
bought a rattlcsnake from another, and
was killed by it, could recover from the
seller.
Sam Smith Of the Indiana, Pa, Mes
senger who weighs 400 pounds, and has
four gallon stomach, relates his experience
with the grippe as follows;-"It is only
solemn duty to the public which compels
us to state the unsayory fact that the man
who goes to bed with his chest covered
with hot onion poulticc and his stomach
| full of boiled onions will wake up TO find
la grippe disgusted and gone 1t is an
heroic remedy, but brings with it II great
reward"
| -Messrs Ritter & Ralston are proud oil
| their carpet room, which just at present Is
| full of the latest patterns, from floor to
ceiling. That is, the sides of the room are
packed; there is a space left in the centre
4 r. l. al fnrn n
sage to the front room, in which they have
| a stock of cloth wraps and jackets that
cost them $4,000, and which they are now
disposing of at half the usual prices. See
ad and notices in others places, IN this
paper.
The movement among the farmers of
Ohio for better roads must be almost uni
versal The latest county TO move Is
Jefferson, from which comes the report
that $50 Of it's richest farmers and most in
fluential citizens met in the court house to
consider some manner of improving the
roads of the county, which are in wretched
condition. The convention appointed a
committee Of five to ascertain the cost of n
system of pixies and other information re-
specting the manner in which the county
commissioners can legally construct 100
miles of pike in that county.
There are large number of cases of
grip in Butler; if you do not believe this
take a seat in drug store any evening
and you will be astonished at the number
of persons who call for quinine, and cough
and catarrh remedies People who are
doctoring themselves for the disease, are
all taking qlinne, a tonic extracted from
the bark of South American tree. The
physicians however are prescribing anti
pyrine, patented m edicine, made i'll Ger
many, from coal tar. 1t seems strange
that We have to 60 to Brazil and Germany
for medicines, substitutes for which are
likely on and in our native hills, il we only
knew them, and the fact that we do go
abroad for them TO the extent of millions
of dollars every year suggests that the
elements of botany, geology and chemis-
try be taught in our public schools. A lit
tie knowledge of these subjects would lead
to many an accidental discov cry.
And now another paper is at it. The
Religious Editor" of the Pittsburg Leader
lit will astonish some people to learn that
the Ie0der has a religious editor-wants