Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1892-12-16

b. and b. Holiday foods.
NorE-All advertisers intending to make
canges In their ads. should notify rs Of
their intending to do 80, not later than
Monday morning.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Buckwheat.
The highest price paid for buckwheat at
the mill OF Geo. Walter d Son, Butler, Pa
What gifts we'll give In the holiday times
(Ssye the pennies 10 build the dimes.)
We're making ready % sure as slow
(Ssye the dimes and the dollsrs will grow)
A standing order-"Haltp
Only nine days to Christmas.
The onion makes the eyes spring a.
leak.
What women talk about-about all
the time.
Bits of lace are approved of as we'd
ding gifts.
The muff Of the 1880 crop is the pro-
per one.
-Confections are now put up in the form
Of . dynamite bomb.
"A new tack hammer has q sliding top
receptacle in the handle for tscks.
in leap year the maiden waits to catch
the man under the mistletoe.
jay Gould evidently believed in the
saying that charity begins at home.
Frog in your throstfD is the copy
righted name of new cough lozenge.
This 10 the time Of the year when the
express companies reap golden harvest.
The new gas company has strong gas
well on the Bleichner farm in Summit twp.
"A Frsnklinvills, N. T., hotel has bar
ct one end and Keely jag cure at the
other.
The Racket Store has new sdvertis-
ing scheme ON hand. See their new adv.
and inquire at the store.
-"Do you approve of church bellsi"
"Yes; II they don't firt in the church it.
self"
The historical egg which Columbus
made stand on its little end has been made
the model Of pipe which has just been
put on the market.
Overheard In Court: "How many
years will he getf" "How long was
Judges cbargef" About an hour and a
half" "Oh, he'll get about eight years
There's y on my right" remarked
the to the II as the letters stood mp at
the alphabetical dress parade. "If you
don't like it 90 to L, replied the J.
Somebody has said there is 30 much of
the fool in every man that it is pretty apt
to crop out in some way. Yon laugh at
another mans folly and he laughs at
yours.
From Utica, New York, paper we
learn that the residence of Rev. T. B.
Roth. formerly Of Prospect, was destroyed
by Ere on Thursday oflast week.
The latest Homestead sensation or
horror cuts close. Several of our boys
csme home suffering from dysentery, and
ct least one Butler man died of it.
The mercury in Butler last Monday
morning stood at ~ above zero, but up in
Oil City, town along the river few
thousand miles above this, it stood at zero.
The Philadelphia Record almanac for
1893 contains some beautiful illustrations
Of the Worlds Fair buildings. besides its
usual amount of valuable information.
An elderly spinster of Germantown re.
oeived present Of % parrot few weeks
ego, and named 1t William. The bird laid
IN eEg day or two ago, and It's name wa
changed ct once.
But one Chinaman in this Internal
Revenue District has, 80 yet, asked Collec-
tor Mitchell for papers under the new law
and It II estimated that 79S of the S0(
Cinnamon in tho district will be sent out
Of the country unless the law Is chang
ID.
"A vegetarian says that raw onions CON
tain IN scrid, volatile oil, sulphur, phos
phorus, earthly salts, starch and free. un
cystallised sugar. Even such q mixture
II preferable to the breath Of the man VIII,
goss out between acts to see friend ani
comes in eating cloves.
1t 10 . singular and unexplained fac
that fns- edged tools assume blue colo
and lose all temper If exposed any con
adorable length of time to the light of tn,
sun, either In summer or winter.
similar effect is exercised by moonlight.
Rev. ss m. Jones, with his mustache
his quaint illustrations, his funny express
ions and Gil his other characteristics, ap
psared on the stage of our Opera Hous
Tuesdsy evening. He bad a large audi
snce and II seemed tc enjoy his talk huge
ly. The next entertainment Of the Higl
School course will be by the Swedish Con
cert Co., next Tuesday week, the 9th
inst.
An Oil City paper tells good joke OF
grocery clerk in that city. A young lad,
discovered horrid big tarsntula in
bunch Of bananas. The clerk procured
glass jar for the purpose Of capturing tn
monster. He was about to shake IL int
: the Jar, when he found to his chagrin tha
It was An artificial tarantuls which som
one had bought and put among th
the bananas for the purpose of joke.
Some funny things happen in the tele
graph ofiicies. tall 20 ung fellow with
nervous air entered an Office the other da,
and seizing blank wrote message to
friend in distant city. 1t read: "Com
Immediately" He planked down a quarte
to pay for the message and hurried out q
the once. A minute later he bounced In
TO the room and said to the clerk: "Hs
tost message been sent yetf' mo SIR.
"weil let me see 1t again" The cler
banded him the message and he read
over "How many words did you say 70
twenty-five csntsf' Nine" said tn