Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1891-12-04
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

In Kansas sunfower stalks are being
used for fuel.
Massachusetts, intends to introduce the
typewriter into the public schools.
Green, brown, black, yellow, pink and
scarlet are the prominent colors in mill
merry.
1T was a wise turkey that contented
itself with lodgings in the top fiat of 6
seven story coop.
The sale of the Vim. Crookshank farm
was adjourned till Jan. 5th. See adv,
and bills posted.
The winter term of the West Sunbury
Academy began Monday, with eighty
scholars enrolled.
We have noticed that the taller q
woman is the less dust you will find on the
high shelves in the house
Some citizens of Zelienople have or
ganized q foundry and machine company
with capital stock of q, 900.
up to the 21st inst, the daylight will
continue to shrink about three minutes
each day, and then begin to lengthen.
-"Physician, heel thyself' ia perhaps
the most supererogatory injunction that
ever issued from mortal lips
Lawyer MoCurdy. of Now York hss
no reason to complain of the Tilden will.
His little bill for winning the case for the
heirs amounted to $4,000
The water of the Allegheny river mas
bscome SO impregnated with oil, that the
people of Pittsburg now fill their lamps at
the water spickets.
AN exchange tells of printing Office
that is opened with prayer. This is contrary
to the usual custom. The Devil generally
opens and the Sheriff closes the print shop.
Whenever we hear girl practicing on
the piano right after breakfast we wonder
if she does it out of love for music or a
dread Of dish-washing.
Keeping everlastingly at it brings sue
cess. This hint is thrown out for the ben
eft of our advertisers who are looking for
a successful sale of Christmas goods.
Some boys of Millerstown and vicin-
ity were poisoned last week, by drinking
cider which had been left standing in a
galvanized iron bucket, and had dissolved
and absorbed the galvanizing.
-Telegraphic messages, some 800 q day
are now sent from New York to London
and the reply received in four minutes. Most
of them are sent between 10 o'clock q. N.
and p. m.
The Taylor building at the turn of
Centre Ave, was discovered o be burning
early Tuesday morning, but the Springdale
Hose Company soon squelched the flames
Asa large proportion ofmen and women
are failures, 1t is no wonder that many
marriages are failures, on the we'll known
principle that two failures will not make
ono success.
Presents for every body, for your father,
mother. brother, sister, cousins, somebody
else's cousins, uncles. aunts, old folks.
young folks, little folks, at Louis Trax ler's,
next door TO Butler Savings Bank
The following popSarn story is taken
from one OF our exchanges; A farmer raised
one thousand bushels of pop corn and stored
it in his barn. The barn caught on fire.
The corn began to pop and filled ten acre
field. An old msre in neighboring pas
ture who had defective eyesignt saw the
corn, thought it was snow and laid down
and froze to death.
The head of monster bull moose was
exhibited at Caribou Me-, last week There
were nine prongs on one horn and eight on
the other, the spread of the antlers measur-
ed five feet. The moose, which must have
weighed 1900 pounds at least, was shot by
q FrenchmsE on the American side of the
st. John River.
-SILyERwARE given away free. All my
patrons will receive a nice present until
Xmas. l am giving away silver plated
Butter-dishes, Pickle-casters, Sugar bowls,
Butter-knivss, Teaspoons, Tablespoons,
Knives and Forks, free of charge. Louis
Trsxler, next door to Butler Savings Bank.
A case which shows the necessity of
publishing notices of dissolution of part
nership, when such dissolution has been
made, was brought into court few days
ago. Prior to August 9th, 1888, Benjamin
Milliken and Harry Bettenger were pert
ners in the butcher business in Venango
county. After that time Millikin purchased
about $471. rs worth of cattle, failing to
pay for which tha ia rmers brought suit
against the firm of Bettinger d Milliken and
collected the whole sum from Bettinger.
There is man Ia our town and he is
wondrous wise; whene'er he writes the
printer man he dotteth all his U.s. And
when he dotteth all of them, with great
sangfroid and ease, he punctuates each
paragraph, and crosseth all his Is. Upon
one side alone he writes, and never rolls
his leaves; and from the man of ink
smile, and mark 'fnsert'' receives. Aud
when question he doth ask Caught wise
ly had he been,) he doth tho good two
penny stamp, for postage back, put in
Err.
up in Venango Co, little case was
disposed of by jury, which put two thirds
OF the costs on the prosecute r, and one
third on the defendant The case starte
year or so ago when one man sued another
for q seven dollar balance on q book &C
count, and this was followed by prosecu.
ton for perjury. The Franklin Neps says
this case illustrated in grotesque degree
the folly Of vindictive litigation, and is q
striking exhibit Of the cumulative nature
Of law costs. Starting on claim for 81, it
has swelled into matter of 5000, which the
parties must pay. And yet, with all this
outlay, the difference between them is not
settled. They are not happy, nor are they
likely to be. On quarrel over matter of
81, they brought to the county seat sixty
witnesses and kept them here for nine days.
And hen, instead of getting satisfaction,
the principals get socked with q bill of 5000
costs, and ieturu home to skirmsh for the
wherewithal, instead of celebrating the
victory over the opp osition.
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Accidents.
A son of Christ Behr, of Zelienople, aged