Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1891-02-27
LOCAL AND GENERAL

LOCAL AND GENERAL
Choice lots on Broad, North and Nil
fin streets for sale by
Ii. J. KLIyGLER d Co.
'sOld woman, old woman, oh, whittier s.
Quoth She: '.To sweep the cobwebs off tn
sky"
Old woman. old woman, why don't yor
come down
And sweep the streets of this dirty oil
towni
A Kentucky trotting stallion was solo
last week for $4,000.
The commissions of the new J.Ps. viii
date from the first Monday in May.
The "Trip to Japan" was financial
success, and the children enjoyed it.
1T was a school boy who located the
liver as being lust south of the lungs.
yellow is to be the fashionable color
this spring. gowns are to be fuller, and rib
| bons will be worn in fifty ways.
The Butler K. of P's won the sword
| offered for the best drilling, at their late
anniversary meeting at New Castle.
A man named Rodgers said to be a
former resident of this county is in jail in
Omaha for attempted suicide.
1t takes from S., 900 to SIC, 200 to pay
the employees of the Plate Glass Co., every
two weeks
Twenty Minutes With Baby" is the
title of book just published, treating upon
the agonies endured by a married man.
A petition to the Council for a foot
walk over the Pittsburg bridge is being
circulated.
BY reference to our advertising
columns it will be seen that the License
crisis will be reached on Wednesday,
March the 18th.
Two stacks of hay on the farm OF VIM.
NJ. Shira, Esq. in Cherry twp. were burned
last Sunday afternoon, and incendiarism is
suspected.
-Zuver has moved his Art Studio to the
second story of the Postoffics building,
where he has suite of beautifully furnish
ed ard well lighted rooms.
No man can always tell what is the
right thing to do, but he can come pretty
near telling every time what is the wrong
thing.
During the late food at Freeport, the
house of J. ID. Walker on the island was
washed away, and all the hogs on the is
land were drowned
-Scotts restaurant will be removed to
the basement of the Bredin building at
corner of the Diamond, and will be opened
about March Is.
-Millcrstown has dancing school, and
a first-class opening for a confagration,
according to the Herald, and only two
wards heard from.
why does Main street threaten to do
away with our stablesl" was the conun-
drum asked by one of our wits the other
day. Because it can stall all the horses in
town, is the answer.
IF there is one time more than
another" says an experienced married
man, "when a woman should be left alone.
it is when a line Of clothes comes down in
the mud"
The banks were closed Monday, in
honor of Washington, and some flags were
flying. In Pittsburg they had parade
and the monument in the Allegheny Park,
erected by the Jr. 0. U. A. NJ. was unveil-
ed
An editor who started a little paper
five years age is now a millionaire Moth
10 ipnn xrh inH
economy are combined with good looks.
He married rich widow.
Look out for fraudulent horse BUYERS
and accept no checks from strangers; also
look out for ''fiim- fam insurance men, no
man can pay five dollars for one without
robbing somebody.
They had floods of water-in Ken
lucky. last week This must be very sad
afHiction; for we have always heard that
the true Kentuckian prefers to take it
straight" with not drop of allaying
Tiber int
The present generation wants to learn
that living cannot be made for all hands
by legislation, by resolutions, by specula-
tion or by imitation. Honest work is the
only way at last to earn an honest living.
We are hunting entirely too much rest
The man who observed that the large
rivers generally happen to run close to
the large cities has now discovered that the
firms that do the largest amount of busi-
ness generally happen to haze the largest
advertisements in the papers.-Franklin
News
The Farmers Institute held at Rem
frew, Wednesday, was a success. The
Opera House was crowded that evening
and the audience listened to several good
speeches. The meeting did not close till
towards Ill o'clock, aId then a few people
from Butler walked home on the railroad
ties
The waters of the Allegheny and Mon
ongahala rivers subsidized last Thursday.
and next day the people living along them
in the two cities had from two to six inches
of mud to clean off their streets and floors.
and out oftheir cellars. The damage done
to the manufacturing establishments along
the rivers was estimated at half million.
"A bright contemporary says that there
are good many societies. lodges and or
ganizations of one kind or another that are
always anxious to ''pay respect to the
memory" of somebody or other but not
half so anxious to pay the publishers for
publishing the resolutions. When such
cards are published gratuitously the pub
Usher is the only one who really pays re-
spects to the memory of the departed.
The sorrow which is not deep seated
enough to influence the sorrowing ones to
pay the printer for heralding it forth is not
liable to end in heart failure.
The following is a small boys Friday
afternoon composition: A school ma'am is
verb because she denotes action when
You throw paper wads at the girls. Switch
is conjunction and is used to connect the
word school ma'am to the noun boy. This
is compound sentence of which boy is
the subject and switch the object. First
person, plural number, bad case.> A school
ma'am is different from boy, boy wears
pants and school ma'am wears her hair
all banged on the forehead. She puts
paint on her face ard some big fellows
come and take her home.
AT the meeting of Council Wednesday
evening the foot-front method of assess
ments tor sewerage was adopted by vote
of 6 to 5. The assessment by this method
Is estimated at from IS to 80 cts foot
front. The bids on the Miffiin st. sewer
were opened and the OFT Bros of Pittsburg
were the lowest at 63 cts foot. The bids
on the Walnut st. sewer were opened and
Il. f. Hughs was the lowest at 81 cts.
Neither contract will be let till after next
meeting. The Mifilin St. sewer is objected
to by the people of the street on account
OF already having a sewer. The new
Council will organize at p. NJ. of next
Monday The old CounciI w1lI hava THAR