Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1890-01-31
He who clings to the truth can well hold
his head high
And ne'cr rue it.
Tboueh at times Handicapped by the man
who can lie
aud stirE 10 it

who can lie
Aud stick 10 it.
The Eanehinan brothers have erected
tbeir saw-miIl on the Snyder and Sphon
nlace. formerly McJunkin, in Summit twp,
and after cutting the timber there. they
will move to the John Noellct farm
An old lady remarked the other day to
a friend who inquired after the health Of
the family, "oh, they're all sick-every
last one of ems down with the Russian
influence, and most of ems got the gripes
with j."
An exchange says: Don't throw yonr
old rubber boots aud shoes away. Save
them for the agents of the chewing gum
manufactures who are now buying them
up 10 all parts Of the cnuntry. PulYerized
rubber boots and over,hoes. favored with
vanilla. strawberry and other extracts
make the best chewing gum.
The mayor of Pittsburg is doing a very
sensible thing. lie has notified pool room
proprietors that he will prosecute any and
| all of them who encourage the et-attendanee
Of minors. There is law lorbidding bill
| lard and pool room proprietors tn permit
boys To play, but it is more honored in the
breach than in the ob ervance. little
Of this sort Of thing in Butler might do
some good.
Just now the papers are making II
great heroine of Nellie BY. Whatever
credit attaches to her performance is really
| due to the railroads and steamers. All
| She had To 10 was to sit still and hold on.
1t was improved steam m-power and compe-
tent navigating and engineering that zip
ped the yonng lady along. In short the
BY trip is the triumph of modern skill in
rapid dtransit-Franklin NerS.
Speaking of the present remarkable e
winter, Daniel Snyder, Esq, Of Westmore-
land county, said that between the hOli-
days, in the winter of 18i3 or 1874, he
gathered enough apples to make Il barrel
Of cider, there being no frost Up to that
time sufficient to freeze the fruit. Bat on
the lst of January heavy snow fell, last
| ing to the 25th Of March, on which day
the sun came out strongly, causing the
snow to disappear suddenly, followed by
an early spring.
The Paterson CAL notes the fact that
you can read the proof of a newspaper ar
ticle three or four times and pass repeated
ly over the same error without seeing it.
All newspaper men will tell you so. But
rs soon as the press is started, and the pa
per is printed in its complete shape, there
il stands out in front Of you, so big that
you can't see anything else. It's a
strange fact. And this, says the CaH, is
the reason it ia so easy to edit paper after
it is printed.
The cold wave 80 longed for visit did pay,
And, then, all away it soon went
The folks as they talk of its visit now say
"Twas little cold wave for cent"
Separate nominating conventions or
meetings for each ward will have to be
held this year in Butler. All the officers
to be elected are ward officers council
man, one school director and one consta-
bic for each ward We have already men
toned the subject Of courcilmen and
school directors, and as for cOnstablcs,
they are to be elected for thee years, and
n good constable in each ward will save
this town the expense of policemen. and
give us better protection.
Americans plan one day and change
the next; they begin building with their
plans in their heads and not on paper, and
have to change so many details that their
buildings cost them a great more than they
expected. All plans and specifications
should be on paper, so that all Contractors
bidding on the building will bid on exactly
| the same work. Mr.. j. W. Miller, the
| Architect, has opened an Office at the 5.
| W. Corner of the Diamond in the old Sui
livan Office. He will make you plans and
| specifications for small building for ten
dollars. and what you will pay for these
will probably save you ten times the
amount on an ordinary six-room house, and
besides this you will obtain just what you
want.
How some words will catch the popu-
lar fancy and others expressing the same
idea will be relcgatcd to the rearl This,
nine times out of ten is due TO the intrinsic
mciit of the favorite, it generally possess
ing, in shortness, compactness and express
siveness, the qualities that fit to the pub
lie lips. All other things being equal, the
short word nearly always ''has the call, .
so to speak, aud in no two words is this
more noticeable at present than in thos'
used to name the sneezing and serious ep
idemc that is sweeping half round th'
world. In Butler, as elsewhere, concise
forceful, one syllabled grip is used prob
ably ten times to once its big, four-iointet
elder brother. "innuenza," il called int,
rcduistion. The short word beats the Ions
one.
The "Quiet Observer" of the Pittsburi
Gazette asserts that women arc not "a so
ciablc as men, and proves it by an Incl
: dent. "The other day couple of iadie
entered an electric car. \ gentleman go
up and made room for both of them They
were well dressed and good looking. Their
they sat, giving each other sidelong glance
but said nothing. Two men got on tho
same car Mt the corner of Sixth and Smith
field, and found seats together Belor
{ reaching Liberty street they were bus
talking about the weather, and by tht
time the car reached the bridge they knew
5 each others names, and were in n fair wa
c TO prove that they were related by mar
riage, or otherwise. The ladies rode o
silently and coldly, each dying to see wha
j.. sort of headgear the other wore, but To
polite to turn aud look Thus they rod
. to North avenue, where one got off. Th
other took u good look as she went out, an
got gazed at through the window in n
{ turn Then it was they discovered that the
| were old friends. The car was stopped
$ the other got off; they kissed, and the CO
e left them talking duet
Some very high buildings have bee
erected in Pittsburg during the past fc
h years. The first was the Hamilton an
t Schmidt & Friday block on Fifth Ave
; then came the Penn and Westinghous
y buildings on Penn Ave, which run fro
!. eight to ten stories In New York an
Chicago there are several blocks from tc