Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1891-10-23
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Election next Tuesday, week.

ALIENS show closed the season her
last SATURDAY, and will winter on the Her
| wick farm near East Brady.
Good water is very scarce at present
Our reservoir water comes as near bein
poison as it could well be, and escape be
ing labeled.
The death of Montgomery J. Sloan
Warren Insane Asylum causes the Parke
| Phoenir to style that institution '.,uma
butcher shop"
| 1t is q well-established prime iple Q
economics that the young man who woul'
rise with the sun should not stay upi late
than 10 o'clock with the daughter.-Er.
The Pittsburg Exposition building wa
so crowded last Saturday that it was i'm
possible to see the exhibits. You went il
one end of the building and got pushed ou
| the other.
"A we'll meaning exchange says tn
| safest plan when stranger wants you t,
sign paper, is tc consider the matter 70
three days, land then kick the stranger Of
| the premises.
Money is scarce in Butler...at present
as you can easily prove by sending or pre-
senting bills, and sure cure for any blue
ness caused by an empty pocket is said tt
be drive over the newly paved streets.
The latest thing in the line of intellec
t1al amusements is called the 'Ipotatt
walk" One of the requirements of the
amusement is to scoop a big potato nj
from the floor with very small spoon and
carry it the length of the room. 1t look:
easy, but it isn't. Winners, of course, gel
prizes.
We direct the attention of our farmer
readers to the card of the Country Gentle
| man, the most complete and valuable agri
cultural weekly published in the country
| 1t costs more than the other agricultural
papers, but it is worth the money asked.
Single subscriptions are $3.50, but We have
made arrangements for securing it for oul
readers at club rates.
"A Beaver Fall paper ''hurrahs fol
Butler county" because prominent resi-
dent of Evans City, regular philanthro.
puIst and church builder, came to Beaver
pills Friday and got fuller than BIG
red wagon. officer Rea picked him up and
lodged him over night. In the morning
when it was learned who he was, he was
instantly released with profuse apologies
and sent back to the soap mines and oil
wells.
The W. c. T. Q. had prayer meeting
in the Jail last Sunday afternoon, as usual,
and after the meeting and while the prison
ers were handing out the chairs james
Lawton, in Jail on charge of larceny,
lodged past the Sheriff and broke for lib
erty. He ran down past the livery stable
and crowd took after him, anl he outran
them sll excepting Paul Cronenwett and
W. o. Sutton, who caught him near the
foot of W. Cunningham St.
A telegram from Chicago dated last
Friday stated that the Keystone Bridge Co.
of Pittsburg had agreed to build a tower
for the Worlds Fair 1l20 feet high for a
million and half of dollars, and that q
stock company would be organized that
would raise that amount. The proposed
tower is to be 440 feet square at the foun-
dation, the three landings are ITO. be 200,
400 and 1000 feet from the ground, and the
first will be built to accommodate from
four to five thousand people. The three
landings will contain restaurants in which
from six to eight thousand people can be
seated, with dancing halls, booths for the
sale of curios, etc.
The red or pine squirrel (not the chip
munk) Is the enemy and destroyer of the
larger and more harmless squirrels; the
black and grey. The New Wilmington
Globe calls for a general crusade against
| him. A well known sportsman has called
his attention to the ravages of the animal.
In hunt through the country he found the
grey and black squirrels very scarce ant
the impudent "piney" correspondingly
plentiful. He states that the farmers art
declaring that the pine squirrel uust go.
| 1t is not only very destructive on cereals,
bnt 1t is an Ishmaelite among the animal
creation-what the sparrow is among the
song birds 1t not only destroys the
young OF other squirrels but devours the
eggs of song birds, quail, grouse, and il
fact of all birds
| The Council of Butler gets puff from
a Kittanning paper, as follows. We SCI
that the citizens of Butler are being trou b
led with the pig-pen nuisance the same al
Kittanning. The Butler Council, however
\ instead of waiting till the citizens m ak,
complaint before u Squire against thei
neighbors, AMI thereby cause person VIII,
had heretofore been the best of friends t,
become enemies, made special committed
of the chief of Police and High Constable
and ordered them to see that the nuisanc'
is abated. This is right. If people ore
not obeying the borough ordinances, it i
the place of the borough authorities to see
that the laws are enforced by Officers wh'
are paid for.this purpose.
I'VE have plenty of apples and al
abundance of buckwheat chaff In this coun
ty. 1t is said that apples for winter us
that are packed in buckwheat chaf keel
longer, do not lose tteir flavor, are less in
clined to rot, and if few are affected tn
chaff absorbs the juices, which prevent
them from affecting the rest They ma.
be packed direct from the tree when pick
ed. This saves cost, but it ia better wa,
to put them under oover In a cool plac
until there is danger of freezing. Begil
with enough chaf to cover the bottom G
the barrel Place on this apples enougl
to form layer they will work better
Enough to cover the apples lightly and
prevent their touching each other is al
that required. 1t should not be fire ant
dusty nor too coarse. Press each laye
moderately with the hands.
On Sunday of this week a certain mai
called upon a certain phys ician of thi
town and told him that he had sickness i
his family and needed camphor, and ha
gum -camphor in the house, but needle
alcohol to mix with it. The man was sobe
and the physician believed him and wrot
the prescription for him. Then the ma
took the prescription to drug store, an
when the clerk looked at him and hesitai
ed he hurried him up, and said his wifi
had Just been confined and that the alcoht