Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1892-02-05
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Have you got house yeti
Gallery P o. is now a money order
Office.
Some of our farmers think that the ice
killed the peach and cherry buds.
When a widow marries again her wait
of woe is over.
Receipt for making chicken salad;
First catch your calf"
The late cold spells and heavy SHOWS
caused the death Of some quail.
1t is hardly probable that the ground
hog d. this vicinity saw its shadow last
TnesdaF
| The b,uek :, sIen, ni signals la been
put on the West Pcau X. X 5eIse.u.. But
Ter Juaetiol and Allegheny.
Some prominent ply ysicians don't ap-
prove daily bath because it absorbs too
much vitality.
Its too much to expect that the man
who uses big words should furnish big
ideas with them.
Some young folks of LIE asureville and
| vicinity had glorious sleigh ride to JEFF
ferson Centre few evenings ago.
Religious sensations pay. Three hun
dred and fifty copies of the Leader were
sold in Butler last Sunday.
| The election of borough and township
| officers occurs on the 16th-the third Tues
day of February.
Looking too closely at dollar does
not make it any bigger, but it often makes
the soul good bit smaller.
Edison is said to have invented talk
ing clock. If all kinds-onyx included
could talk wouldn't there be some queer
tales told.
| "A woman's grace and carriage have
become of so much importance in summing
up her beauty that she cannot afford to
wear pinching shoe.
| The Republicans of this borough will
hold their primaries tomorrow, Saturday,
between the hours OF 5 and 7p.m., at the
usual polling places.
| The Republicans of Butler twp. will
hold their nominating meeting in Greer's
Office on Saturday the 18th, ct clock p.
IN.
"A leap year fancy is scarf pin in the
form of an interrogation point. 1t is in
tended for young ladies to present to eligi-
BILE gentleman friends.
Sheep have two teeth in the center of
the jaw at one year, and add two each
year until i've years old, when they have
''full mouth" After that time the age
cannot be told by the teeth.
Buttons are now made from p tatoes.
The tuber is treated with acids, hardened
by means Of great pressure, and the buttons
manufactured from it can not be disting-
uishcd from those of bone.
A slick tongued swindler is abroad
selling twenty five pounds of coffee for q
ridiculously small sum. When the victim
gets his can, he finds instead of coffee he
has some nicely Drowned navy beans with
little essence poured over them.
Now that the Chill affair is settled we
would like TO hear of that railroad being |
built up Beach creek. We would like to
hear Of three railroads being built up that |
creek-one on each side and one in the
middle. Where, the thunder, is Beach |
creek, anyhowi
Some friends were comforting widow |
upon the lose of her husband by telling |
her what good man he was, when she |
added II was not much acquainted with |
him. He belonged to three clubs, four |
lodges, brass band, an athletic associa-
ton and practiced law"
Mr.. F. A. wiggin of Salem, Mass.
will lecture in Cosmopolitan Hall, next |
Monday and Tuesday evenings, on "The
Philosophy of Spiritualism." He is
test medium and clarvoyant, and will |
add q little phenomena to his lect-
ure on the philosophy of spiritualism.
1t is we'll known that dry sand il one
Of the best things that can be used for |
killing an incipient oil fire, and some fac
tories where oil is used have been equipped |
with pals for this material in various de- |
partments. 1t would be good thing to |
have about the house in case of lamp ex
plosions or sudden fires Flour is also a
good thing, and extinguishes burning oil |
instanter.
According to q dispatch sent TO o |
Pittsburg paper Donegal twp, man has |
sued or tried to sue his wife for selling
liquor without license-the circumstances
being that in order to keep him at home
evenings, she bought the liquor at whole
sale and sold it to him by the drink-an
arrangement that soon put all the cash on
hands in her pocket and brought about
quarrel and separation.
| The mammoth bull that Mr.. William
N. Singerly will exhibit at the Worlds
Fair promises to be the biggest thing on
hoofs at the great exposition. The animal
weighs 3, 900 pounds, about double the size
Of an ordinary large bull. Although short
legged, be is seven feet 10 height and his
bust measure is twenty two feet. He is of
pure Holstein Tristan breed and was pur-
chased by Mr.. Singerly in Michigan. He is
still growing at Mr.. Singerly's farm near
Philadelphia, and Eis keeper expects him
to weigh 1000 pounds by the time he is
shipped to Chicago,
| Last Monday slick patent medicine
man hailing from Karns City canva,sed
the town selling bottled lightning which
he claimed was sure cure for headache,
toothache and corns. He stopped at Ber-
mont's boarding house, and Tuesday morn
ing when he left it was discovered that an
overcoat and $50 In cash had disappeared
with him. He is tall, slender, and carried
q very small tan colored satchcl. If he
should return he could replenish his stock
OF bottled lightning without costing him
cent.-Freeport Journal
Jupiter and Venus are having little
Irritation In southwestern sky, and with
the new moon, they made pretty picture
the other evening. The three celestial
bodies were arranged in the pink.and- pearl
sky somewhat thus:
i Jupiter.