Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1890-03-21

The wife of Lemuel McGili, OF Harms
vile. was found dead in her bed " edli'S
day morning. She was daugh'ei VI
Samuel TAYLOR, now living IN lehIes-'''
and leaves several small children.
That is q good joke on telegraph
onera,or of Pittsburgh. Ho received a
message from Saginaw, Michigan. stating
that the sender. Can agent of l.. c. Wick,
of tbi, place. had purchased 100000 mill
cnlls for him. and he transmitted it TO
Butler: "IIave bought 500, 900 milk COWS
for you.
Those switehmens puzzles that
Sehneideman is giving away with each
purchase are furnishing considerable
amusement for the children. Read his new
ai in this wock'5 paper. He IS offering
great bargains in children's clothing ana
with every purchase of "A aud upwards he
also makes 4 present of Castonet wheel
Occasionally you meet man VINO *
not satisfied unless he Is buying things
little cheaper than his neighbor II ms
neighbor pays Is cents dozea Tor eggs ne
must have - for a dozen, and so it IS with
everything; he is nuisance with every
one he comes in contact. He finally dies
poor, and his sons pay fall price Tor a
coffin. while the man who is willing to pay
Il fair price for everything Is rich ana
prosperous.
How can a man say that Il woman has
nothing to dol In one year she gets dinner
3G5 times, washes the dishes lO91 times,
gets the children ready for school twice
day for lSO days, gets the baby to sleep
liGO times, makes about 800 calls, and as
she wishes for something she hasn't every
minute. she wishes 60 things an hour, or
1880 things in a year Who says that
women has nothing to dot
The annual report Of the Pennsylvania
Railroad contains the statement that
among the property damaged and destroy
ed by the great food We're "a passenger
cars. sci freight cars, "a locomotives, some
of the latter Notwithstanding their weight,
being carried more than 4 mile by the force
of the flood, and that the amount eXpend-
ed in repairing the loss caused by the Hood
to 3lst of December last, was 10, 475, 425.0l.
Owing to our columns being crowded
last week. we omitted several matters, and
among them the proceedings OF Institute
No. 2, in Cranberry twp, well written
communication from Mr.. W. r. knsey.
The next institute will be held on Satur-
day, the Doth inst at school-house No. j.,
the Bear Run school, and will consist of
speaking and music in the schoolroom
that afternoon. Everybody is cordially in
vited
Sometime ago We printed the follow
ing sentence containing l3 words and AZ
letters, and the latter including all the let
ters of the alphabet: "John P. Brady gave
me black walnut box of quite small size"
A correspondent who saw it, asks what we
think of the following sentence: 1.-The
quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dogf"
which contains only 0 words and 30 letters
Can this be DeatcDf IL SO, WHO mas INC
sentence that will do itf
Look out for stranger who is going
the rounds swindling people by selling a
powder "warl anted to kill all ills" He
charges from 80 to So and leaves a little bit
of corn starch. He was in town on Friday
last and victimized couple of ourEcitizens,
and, strange to say, neither of the un-
fortunates read a county paper. What
they paid the swindler would have secured
them q paper for three years.-Er
If you are trespassing on railroad
property and a train comes along and
knocks you into smithereens, your family
can't collect damages from the company,
no matter how valuable your mortal re-
mains may appear in their eyes. 1t wonld
seem that every one ought TO know this,
but there are some who do not. In the
case of George Harton and wife against the
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad
Company, in which the plaintiffs asked
$24, 900 for the loss Of their daughter, who
was run down and killed by II train in
Franklin last summer, Judge Taylor order
cd non-suit, on the ground that the girl
was trespassing on the company's prem
ises, and that the latter could not be held
responsible for the accident