Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1893-02-03

Splendid for cough. Mrs. Kate Kidney
% Lewis street, San Francisco, Cal, writes
from the Golden City: II have been using
DR. Bulls Cough Syrup for nearly FIVE
years and have always found it splendid
remedy for cough. / am never without
bottle in the house.
"A traveller asked Western man if he
thought the lynch law prevalent out there
decreases the number of murders. Well,
dunno" said the native; 'but it decreases
the number OF murderers."
Pennsylvania Railroad officials are dis
cussing the adoption off 2 cent mile fare.
II is possible that they will adopt it as a
standard rate and dispense entirely with
giving special excursion rates.
We may look for shortage in the oy-
ster supply. The long, fierce freeze has
filled the bays with ice and will naturally
put stop to dredging. With the oyster
famine We may also expect the annual re-
pert of the killing OF the peach crop.
which sad news will soon be due.
"A disease peculiar to Japan is called
the cake. 1t is believed to be the result
of eating too much rice.
Neatly worked dnrns and patche
have been discovered III the cloths used in
swathing some of the Egyptian mummies
The highest temperature on the globe
Is at Death Valley. Ipyo county, Cal. Its
on - foot L1ln
summer the thermometer bas occasionally
marked 10 degrees
General statistics prove that, since the
Trojan war, three thousand years ago
not single year has elasped in which
some war has not killed large number Of
men.
The most indes truciible wood is the
Jarrah wood of Western Australia, which
defies all known forms Of decay, and is un-
touched by all destructive insects, so that
ships built by it do not need to be copper
ed.
Here is an idea of what little spot of
land may do in the way of production:
The island of Jamaica sells annually to The
United States bananas exceeding in value
the entire apple, peach and cherry crops of
this cou ntry.
The sea water originally put in the
great aqusriums at the Crystal Palace
Sydenham, in 1854, is said to be still used
there, having been used over and over
since that time, a record without parallel
in the history of similar institutions.
Mr. Gladstone is the owner of the
largest lead pencil in the world. 1t is the
gilt OF pencil maker at Keswick, and is
thirty inches in length. In place of
the customary rubber cap it has a gold cap.
Its distinguished owner uses it for walk
ing stick.
Among curious facts relating 20 light
vessels is their mode of being moored.
Except on stony ground they do not ride
to anchor, but to mushrooms" weighing
about two tons, which bnry themselves in |
the mud or the sand, and form an absolute |
A white winter make fat liveryman. |
The bright man controls his appetilies, |
the idiot is controlled by them
One conld stand some men "going off |
in flight of eloquence,' il it would only |
take them out of hearing.
1t would be interesting to know what
the other cats think, when Mrs. Wander
bilt's 81. 900 cat mounts the fence
The early spring vegetable crop is
going to play the peach crop game this
year.
In a thunderstorm il is unsafe to take
refuge under a white popular, as that tree
seems to attract lightning. Mr.. 0ovaroff,
a scientis. Of Moscow, suggests that house
holders be compelled to plant white pop
ular before each residence TO prevent the
houses from being fred by lightning.
TIE coal bin has become the coal has
been IN many humble household.
Lanes Family Medicine
Moves tue bowels each dav. In order to
be healthy this is necessary