Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1892-01-22
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Apollo struck the Tyre,
No one knows why or how;
But if Apollo lived today,
He'd be kept busy now.

Good. health is not fashionable at
present
Always laugh when you think people
are expecting you to.
DO you think your girl will mention
the matter this year1
, The grip bacillus is said to be the
smallest known.
Niece & Co., oil producers expect to
open banking house in Harmony.
A carpet tacking party is the latest in
vention for evening festivities
There is not much in the way of ex-
citenient going on at the present time in
this section of the country.
-Usuali, it J.. n.,a considered ky to
close ,.ur g,ip," but just now it is the
happiest event possible.
Mark Twain put an old truth in an at
tractive dress when he said: "a lie well
stuck to becomes history"
An undertaken in neighboriug town
has a sign ON which he printed; "Y ou kick
the bucket; we do the rest"
The cow-bell party had great time,
Monday evening, but they did not get
sled full early enough to go to Saxonburg.
The forest scenery in some parts OF the
County is beautiful, and large trees are
bent to the ground by the snow.
The boy who escaped having his head
blown off during the hunting season now
has chance of breaking through the ice.
There is some talk of amending the
Book of Common Prayer, so as to make it
read 'From the Grippe, Good Lord deliver
u.s."
| Unless your money has been demand
| ed and your life threatened by a crank,
your name will not go down to posterity
among the great men of your time.
| A son of James Fullerton was under
the ice at the Freeport bridge, Wednesday
afternoon, but was rescued in time to save
his life.
Endowment policies, after an insur-
ance of 20 years, return more than four
per cent interest Read the advertisement
| of the n. Y. Life, on I'd page.
| The world believes great many men
innocent because they have learned to
take the bait off the hook without getting
caught.
The far-seeing young man is beginning
to save up the money he will need when
it comes time to buy his best girl valen-
| tine.
1t is the man who falls on the icy
pavement who sprinkes ashes in front of
bis house. This is a bad time CT year to
have broken arm.
What a terrible scourge the grippe is
| 1t caused the death of man in Iowa, last
week, who was one-hundred and twenty
years old, and who refused to wear pants
| for a year.
AT sunrise Tuesday morning the mer
curry in Butler stood at Is and 16 below
zero-a degree or two below what it was
last Sunday morning, a week, when the
horses were burned.
Some splendid ice has been housed
during the past few days. The Reibers Sc
cured very good article, Z to inches
thick, from John Shanor's pond, north OF
town.
An old farmer being asked about the
pressure of a gas well few miles from
here remarked: ''It has $50 pounds pres
sure, and if I understand rightly every
pressure is a pound.r
An Armstrong Co. exchange asserts
that the towns lying on the eastern side of
the Allegheny river are sadly afflicted With
sickness, while towns on the western side
have but few cases.
The Educational Convention for the
benefit of the Lancaster, Pa, Theologic
oil Seminary will be continued at the White
or St. Johns Church in Butler twp. this
evening at 7:30, P. NJ, and Saturday at
1890, A. NJ.
A very peculiar effect was produced
by the following announcement, contained
in the advertisements of a county fair:
'Among other attractive features of this
great fair there will be highly amusing
donkey races and pig races. Competition
in these two contests open to citizens of
the county onlyw
Richard Mansfield, the successful act
or. this week issued instructions to his
manager to discontinue the use of. litho
graphs and printing of all kinds for use
in windows and on walls, and to confine
all advertising exclusively to the news
papers Frank Siddals, the great soap
manufacturer, says that the people who
do not read newspapers never use soap.
-"How to Manage a Husbandf" was
answered by different members of a female
society of one our large towns at late
meeting as follows: "Hold your own
tongue, Tell him your Secrets Feed
the Brute, "Pet and coax him. 'Treat
him with loving consideration" "Never
cross him in his purposes" "Humor all
his whims." Let us have a branch of that
club in Butler Immediately.
ALI over the northern half of the coun-
ty last week, orchard and forest trees were
broken by the weight of ice and snow up
| on them. Peach trees were split, and old
apple trees were broken, and in the woods
the tops of large trees of all kinds were
broken off, and some trees that did not
stand perpendicular were uprooted In
| one piece of woodland, that we heard of, the
trees fell as though thousand choppers
were at work. When the ice alone was on
the trees the!glimmer of the sunlight upon it
made as pretty scenery as one could mag
inc.
If you glance over the calendar for
this year you will find that Monday will
be great holiday day during the present
year. Washington's birthday comes on
Monday and so does Memorial Day. The
Fourth Of July is also billed for Monday
| and Labor Day will be celebrated on a
Monday, Christmas is down on the calen-
| dar for Sunday and will therefore be cele-
| brated on Monday, as will New Years.
Thanksgiving Day and Election Day are
the only holidays during the year that will
| be celebrated on any other day but Mon