Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1891-12-11
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
storm doors up.

The weather prophets promise US plen-
ty of sleighing for this winter.
A new broom soaked in water before
using becomes endowed with increased
longevity.
Some genius has patented a Christ
ma stocking holder, which he has just pat
on the market
A round shouldered man with big
button hole nosegay has an overloaded
look
There is nothing in the world that peo-
pie relish more than nonsense with great
deal of sense in it.-Franklin NeWS.
Farmer Yeazel, of Waynesville, Ohio,
has IL childr n, 10 of them slx-toed boys,
and the other six-fngered girl.
The people of the United States con-
sumo, it is said 2OO, 0OO, OOO bottles of pick
les annually.
-Parson Twiue. a black resident OF
Atchison, Kansas, has started thousand
hour talk.
Everybody stops to look at that Mas
sschusetts raccoon in the window OF the
Racket Store. It's pointed.
Christmas is coming. and the husband
who can now steer clear of the embroidery
meshes in his own household is born
diplomat.
|. One of the beauties of studding
house is that it can be afre for hours, and
the people inside not know anything
about it.
1T is estimated that 1900 quail have
| been killed in Mexico, and marketed in the
United States since the season opened
October l.
An old fool in Vermont, to know what
| dynamite tastes like swallowed some, and
| then was afraid to let any one go near
| him.
-Sharpers are selling barbed-wire fence
| machines to Berks, Lebanon, and Lancaster
farmers, collecting 500 each in advance
| and leaving the machines undelivered.
| -Rich's Speciality Company was thrown
| from its wagon few days ago while parad-
| ing the streets of Emlenton, and one OF its
members was killed.
| Recent statistics show that notwith
standing the number used for culinary pur
poses there are still 5000 missionaries left
in Africa.
| A Farmers Institute will be held at
Renfrew, in the Opera House, on the 9th
and 9th of January, under the auspices o.
the State Board of Agriculture,
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 Tfaxlcr's,
next door to Butler Savings Bank.
A German citizen being asked if hi
would have any sauerkraut to spare an-
swered in the negative, saying. II don't
care for it much myselfe, but we generally
put up ten barrel to have it in the house il
case of sickness"
-Counterfeiters near Erie have by chem
ical aid split 81 and S. bills, pasted th'
backs of the ones to the faces of the lives
and vice versa, SO that by laying the biz
side up they have usually passed the bill
without question.
The creditors of the Standard Plate
Glass works had a meeting in Butler
Tuesday, heard the report of the Receiver
appointed Committee to form plan TO
iquidating the Indebtedness of the con
cern, and adjourned till the 22d, inst.
I'm Harmony, the other day reckless
driver ran one of the shafts of his buggy
into the breast of horse going in the op
posite direction, eau sing the almost instan
death of the horse. The same thing il
liable to happen in Butler almost any
evening.
| The postage stamp will be So years oil
next May. Its inventor was a printer
James Chalmers, of Dundee, Scotland, ,wh
died in 1853. England SO years ago in
troduced the new system of prepaying let
ter postage, and according to decree o
December 81, 1889. issued the first stamp
in May, 1840. A year later they were in
troduced in the United States and Switzer
land.
One of the prettiest store rooms il
Butler is that of Fl. W. Koonce at 323 S
Main St. nearly opposite the Ete1mille
House. Mr. Koonce has lately determines
to go into the Dry Goods and Notion busi
t ness, and has purchased a large stock o
these goods, and he and his family hav
been busily engaged all this week in put
ting them in place. They have names
their store the Peoples Store" and vii
open next week.
The house on the farm of Thoma
Wilson, one and balf miles east of Centre
vile, in Slipperyrock twp. was burned las
Friday morning. The fire originated i
an old house, which was destroyed, an
then communicated to the new one, an
the family living in it, that of Mr., Co hne
we're awakened about three o'clock in th
, morning, and barely escaped with thei
lives. The house was insured for $400, i
the Worth Mutual, and the insurance wi
be promptly paid.
II The house of W II. Lusk, Esq. on W
, Clay St. was discovered to be on five las
! Sunday morning. The fire origi mated fror
= small gas stove in the bath room.
had followed the woodwork to the atti
and seemed to have taken hold of the en-
tire roof, when discovered, as vast vol
umes of smoke We're issuing from it. Tb
Hose Companies put in prompt appear
snce, but found the fire hard to get at, q
there were no windows in the attic, an
: holes had to be cut in the roof. The dam
. age to the house and furniture was froI
5000 to $500.
A young lady teacher was instructin
/; a class of urchins in the meaning of diffe
: ent words, principally by illustration
0 At length the word husband W,
reached. and to make it clearer to thel
: she said; Suppose | should get marie
T what would havei" For few momen
: the little heals were busy trying to con
prehend what it would be. Suddenly on
Q bright little boy at the foot of the cla
: looked up at her with his countenanc
J. beaming with satisfaction at having solve
# the problem, and made answer in lor