Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1890-01-03
TnMnRE AGAIN.
Yule is come, and Yule is gone,
Aud we have feasted well
So Jack must to his fail again,
And Jennie to her wheel.

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that we have received this year was that oi
the Detroit Free Press, and it will be sent
free to all subscribers of that paper The
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paper of the country. The subscription
price is one dollar year but We can club
it with the CITIZEN at reduced rate
Some of the strong men Of this conn
try have challenged the strong men of
Europe to come over here and compete
with them, and the Europeans are coming.
The strongest mal on this continent is
said to be Canadian named Louis st. Cyr,
who stands 3 feet l0I, weighs 800, and has
repeatedly lifted dead weight of over
two tons.
james Powell, Of Penn township, met
with a severe accident on Christmas day,
just as he was starting on a hunt. He was
standing at the corner of the house talking
| to some neighbors, and had rested the
muzzle of his gun on the toe of his right
foot, when he accidentally touched the
trigger and the gun exploded, blowing off
the second toe, and cutting the others.
1t was very painful wound.
On the arrival of the 7. & W. train
from Butler Monday morning the remains
| of Mrs. Margaret Ross, q former resident OF
this city, were taken for interment to
Greenwood cemetery. Mrs. Ross recently
lived at Allegheny, but it was during n
visit at Martinsburg, Butler Co, that she
died Saturday. The deceased was 50 years
| old. She was relative Of the Newell
family, of this city.-New Castle Ne'rs.
Now is the time to tie together the
| limbs of those trees. both fruit and orna'
mental, that have made a long spreading
| growth, and whose limbs fork out BY
tying al the limbs together about a foot
up from where they leave the trunk, they
| are prevented from breaking or splitting
| down with the SHOWS and ice storms of
winter as well as by strong winds. Use
| q stout, soft string, and it will not cut into
| or chafe the tree.
The year 1889 has passed into history
The first sensation Of the year was the
Samoan affair, then came the White
Cap outragcs, then the Soldiers
Orphan School Epedimics; Harrison's in
auguration March ~; the Washington
Ccntcnnial the Cronin murder; the Okla
homa riots; the Johnstown disaster MAY
3l); the Prohibition election June 1s); the
Brown-Sequard elixir fizzle; the Gettys-
burg meeting; Brazil proclaimed Repub
lie, and lastly the influenza and green
Christmas.
Don't worry, and don't cross the
bridge until you come to it." This is good
advice and the man who follows it will be
a sunshiny sort of fellow, with a CHEEKY
way about him that must have its effect
and influence on all with whom he asso
ciates. But, says one, it is easy to talk.
To not worry is almost an impossibility,
and "trifes light as air. often cause the
most worry. But nevertheless don't wor
ry. 1t does no good, does not help mat
ters in the least. Take things as they
come, which you will be compelled to do
anyhow, whether you worry or not Read
the CITIZEN and be happy.
I The Gertrude Rapp, of the Economic
Society, who died few days ago, was the
only daughter Of George Rapp. the founder
of the society. Geo. Rapp's only son died
at Harmony many years ago. After the
Economics left Harmony they spent sever
al years in Indiana before locating on the
banks of the Ohio. When they left Har-
mony they sold all their property in that
vicinity to old Mr.. Zeigler, who afterwards
rued his bargain and wanted them to take
the land back; but they advised him to di
vide it into small farms and put tenants on
each piece who would keep sheep, and he
would get through; and he did so and
came out all right.
Mrs. Sadie Ann McGinty, the rclict of
the late lamented Dan McGinty, says she
is fully convinced that her missing spouse
is not at the "bottom of the say" VIII ere
popular belief locates him, but she feels
sure that he has gone across the water
with some fair charmcr. Mrs. McGinty is
woman of energy and ingenuity, and
she does not propose to allow the recreant
Dan to escape so easily by his submarine
subterfuge, so she has planned to follow
him even to the uttermost parts of the
earth. She will not bring him back if she
shall find him, but she proposes to give
him piece of her mind and touch of
her vigorous hand that will make his best
suit of clothes look worse than the latter
ed raiment that he cast aside when he
dressed himself in his Sunday best before
he went away.
1t is a curious fact, says the Medical
Record, that the influenza prevailed IL
America one hundred years ago, and DR..
John Warren, in letter to DIR. Lcttsom,
says that "our beloved President Wash
ington is but now recovering from severe
| and dangerous attack of it, In 1890 an
| epid emic started in China, it reached Rus
sia in January, 1881, and by May it had
spread to western Europe; but it only
reached this country in January, 1892 and
then prevailed but slightly. Another and
moro severe epidemic started in Russia in
December, 1886; within month it appeared
in London, ana rapidly spread over Eu
rope. This time, again, America Was not
affected. An epidemic of considerable ex-
tent prevailed in the United States about
ten years ago, and there have been various
mild manifestations of the disease. On
the whole, however, North America does
not seem to be very favorable to the de-
velopment of epidemic influenza in its
worst forms, and it is unlikely that we
shall have severe visitation. The dis
ease is not dangerous, except sometimes to
children or the aged, while the former
often show a decided exemption. The dis
ease is undoubtedly do TO some micro or
ganism which floats in the air, and which
infects the human system. but it is gener-
ally killed in so doing For influenza is
bat slightly if at all Contagious. We OBJ
serve that some feeling of alarm prevails
lest this epidemic be precursor to cholera
as was the case in 1881 and 1s47 There
have been, however, plenty of cholera cpl
denies without preceding influenza, and
q great many influenza epidemics without
any associate cholera. The micro organ
isms of the two diseases are as essentially
| different as are the diseases themselves.
The cholera germ lives in water and soil,
| the influenza germ in the air