Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1890-03-07
NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES.

Young lady OF Tarentum Is very iohu
of onions, but as she is good looking, anna
BILE and popular, she understands her duty
to society too well to indulge in the savory
but odoriferous root. Every now and
then, however, her appetite gets too much
for her and she goes on regular onion
drunk, so to speak, eating dozen or two
of the tear drawing vegetables. On such
| occasions she retires to her room day or
two and is dead to the world and her best
| Young man until her breath is again COM
petent to appear in good society.
Warren, Pa, elected two ladies school
directors at the late election. Reports do
not say what tickets they ran upon, but IL
the 1O4 plurality for Harrison in 1888 Is
any indication, we rather guess it was on
the Republican ticket
IT ia told of a Carbon County man that
he has worn the same hat for twenty.
three years, and ne says it has come into
style nineteen times.
| Nathan Brown, of Emlenton, in step
ping off Valley train at Foxburg one day
last week, fell under the car, which passed
over his right leg at the ankle and other
| wise injured him.
The steamer ". IT, ONeiU, of Pitts
burgh, is en- route to New Orleans with q
tow IT'S feet long. 1t comprises IL deep
coal boats, 10 barges and fuel flats, to-
gether containing over 100000 tons of
coal. The width of the tow is 260 feet.
The County Auditors of Clearfeld county,
have created considerable excitement in
official circles by surcharging the county
Commissioners the sum of 1925, IL, divided
as follows: G. 1. Thompson, $246, "; JAS
Savage, $274,O7; Jacob Mock, $204, 81. The
auditors insist that the amount was i'm
properly paid to the Sheriff, Prothonotary,
court reporter, District Attorney and
other officers. The Commissioners publish
a statement saying that the amount sur
charged was paid on bills approved by
the Court or the attorney for the county.
There will be some lively times before the
! affair is adjusted.
A Berks county school teacher has hit
upon a novel idea in teaching. He liter
ally pounds knowledge into the pupils.
The other day he gave girl four words to
spell, and when she failed to do so he
spelled them on her back with a rattan
that is, for each letter, as he pronounced
| it, he gave her cut. The friends of the
| girl should have taken the teacher out and
| spelled few words on his back. They could
have cut on his cuticle "multitudinous-
ness" "hydrocephalus," 'incomprehensi-
bility," and dozen or SO other lengthy
words, and taught him lesson he would
never have forgotten.
There is one Berks county farmer who
has settled the tramp question to his
satisfaction. A few days ago two tramps
appeared at his house and begged fol
something to eat. They were offered food
provided they would cut pile of wood
first Now you might just as well ask 8
tramp to take bath as to cut wood, and
the gentlemen of the road were highly in
dignant at the request, so much so that
| they became abusive and one of them
drew revolver. Then up rose the sturdy
farmer and with club he lambasted the
two tramps until they yelled for mercy,
and to wind up good days work he took
them before Justice of the Peace, who
sent them to Jail for trial. This is the
easiest solution of the tramp question, but
the great difficulty is that the farmer is
not always around, and the tramp intimi-
dates the women folks into giving him
| whatever he wants.