Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1893-05-26

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Ny bliss is in my breast.
Ny wishes are but few,
All easy to fulfill;
/ make the limits Of my power
The bounds unto my will. j"
Fashion has given the cold shoulder to
ice cream. AT bang-up functions only
frozen fruits are recognized.
Since the invention of the labor saving
process of painting by squirting color
through hose, high art has received
wonderful impetus.
-"I wish I were an ostrich, said Hicks
| angrily, as he tired to eat one of his wife's
biscuits and couldn't.
81 wish you were" returned Mrs. Hicks,
"Fd get few feathers for my kat
A double chin-that which takes place
when two women meet.
bridesmaids carry dainty Marie An
toinnete bags, filled with flowers, on their
arms.
The demand for long stemmed roses is
so great that the florist now cleverly fast
ems natural rose on an artificial STEM.
ALI sorts of old fashioned gentle con-
ceits are being revived, including the
wearing of old laceS and the use of sealing
wax.
The two San Francisco doctors who
waited on Bonanza Mackey and picked
ont the bullet which crank fired into him
a few weeks ago have showed bills at him
amounting to $4,000. John kicks and
swears he won't pay them until they're
scaled down to reasonable figures. As the
doctors can't put the bullet back where it
was, they'll either have to sue or comprom
ise.
Our Mosey says that the time is fast
coming on when large number ofthe male
citizens of this goodley Borough will have
| high-sounding titles compared with which
the present ones they bear are very insight
cant. This state of things is sure 10 come
to pass, the time is ripe for it and the eie
ments are favorable To gsinsay it wonld
be folly. When We look around we see
that something more than the present
worn out titles must be brought into re-
QUESTION A plain title is of little account
nowadays. 1t must, to be anything, be
of high order and partake largely of the
sublime, not to say ridiculous. when
men are anxious to be greater than nature
intended them to be- says popular wri-
ter, "they will run into any extremes of
folly, notwithstanding their better judg-
ment would prompt them to the contrary"
But the go-ahead spirit of the times ap
pears to ignore common sense, and things
are dicernIble only in an artificial light
Er.
Coughing Leads to Consumption.
Kemp's BalSam will stop the cough at
once. Ask your friends about it.
The arti-whisker crusade has been de-
nounced as a bare-faced tyranny.
You can drive horse to water, but
unlike man, you cannot drive him to
drink
-Giraffes are now worth S., 900 each in
this country, but they are high at that
price.
No. Maud dear, you are mistaken in
that you can clear your vision by strain
ing your eyes.
-''How bout you p is the latest nom
sensical salutation among those who con-
slider themselves fly.
The colored shirt with the white col |
lar has now become the property of even
those who mock at dudes and dudeism.
The newest importation of French mil |
lnery is a production which resembles
butterfly with jeweled or etted
wings.
A school maid of keen perception and
much erudition has written an essay which
proves the coming man to be woman.
Probably the reason that stock gam
bling wrecks so many men is that in stock
speculation it is impossible to bear up even
when winning
There is gun in the British navy, q
% ton Armstrong, which hurls shot
distance of II miles, the highest point in
the arc being II, 900 feet above the earth S
surface. The discharge of the gun cannot
be heard at the place where the ball
strikes.
When Napoleon overran Italy his at
tention was called to number of silver
statues of the apostles which had decorat-
ed an ecclesiastical institution for centur-
les "Take them down." said the great
conquerer, "and coin them into currency,
that they may go about doing good as did
their master"
Drunkenness, or the Liquor HABIT, Posi-