Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1893-03-10
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The mines will probably be idle month
on account of the fire.
Stamps, please curtly said the
young lady. with or without r quefied
the facetious drug store clerk. with or
without, Without whati" was the indig-
nant inquiry. "whiskers, ma'am. One
centers has no whiskers on Columbus. The
two-centers have"
The ladies and gentlemen who are to
take part in the "Deestriet Skulef enter
tainment to be given in the Opera House
during the last week Of this month, are re-
quested to be present on Friday evening
March 10. at Mr.. j. II. Sutton's, North
Mexican St, at 7.30 Without fail.
The Boston Globe takes sly 5 wipe at
one of New England's hypocritical observ-
ances when it says: "Gov. Russell has con-
cluded not to change the ancient custom
and will issue proclamation setting apart
April 9th for humiliation, fasting, prayer,
baseball and other sports"
The Secretary of the Monument Com
mittee, Mr.. l. J. McCandless has forward
ed to each and every school teacher in the
county, a book in which to enter the names
of their scholars, with instructions to OBJ
serve Monument Day, (Friday the 18th,
Inst), and try to induce each scholar to
subscribe trile toward the monument.
Mrs Jennie E. Zimmerman purchased
| the entire stock of Ritter d Ralston at
| Sheriffs sale, has began business in same
place and is now offering bargains in all
the different varieties of Dress Goods,
Wraps, Millinery, etc. She wishes to close
out the entire stock, and offers everything
as cheap as at the public sale. Read her
card il another column.
The editor of paper in an interior
town of Pennsylvania advertised that on
market day a man would be at the hotel to
buy dogs to take west. Farmers brought
in hundreds Of dogs, there were fights il
Vulnerable and continual canine concert.
The buyer failed to materialize, and the
editor was necessarily absent for the ben
lift of his health
A former resident of New Castle
writes to friend there from Pasadena,
Cal, that peach and cherry trees are in
bloom, and that oranges and lemons are
ripe;also, that he is plowing with the sun so
hot that it warps the rim Of his hat as fast
he can straighten it out. That last is suf-
ficient evidence that they're enjoying warm
weather on the Pacific siope-or thst some
body is liar.
A number of good buildings will be
erected in Butler during the coming sum-
mer. J. S. Campbell intends building
three story block adjoining the Troutman;
store; blick building for the use Of the
Herald will be erected on the rear end of
John Stein will build on his lot on S. Main
St., adjoining his present building occupi-
pied by Yogeley and Bancroft; aud A. & 81.
Reiber will put up three story building
on the site ofthe old Rockenstein block.
JOHN LONG, a cattleman in the Colo
rado Desert, claims to have lately discoy-
cred the skeletons Of three men, who had
been killed and devoured by jackals. He
also discovered the wreck of a wagon,
which bore a card, on which was written
the words: 1--WE are lost. There is no
water on the telegraph road" No. OK
yokes nor harness could be found any
where near the wagon, nor were there any
weapons in sight, and he believes the wa
gon had been previously destroyed by
other parties passing that way, who rob-
bed it and kept the discovery to them
selves.
The crinoline fad has broken loose and
is working haYoc away down in Tennessee.
On Sunday a Mrs. Sanders went to church
in town near Milan. wearing hoop skirt.
The cumbersome skirts brushed against
several of the worshipers in church, and
Andrew Watson made a remark which in
suited the lady, who informed her husband.
A fight then ensued, the relatives and
friends of both parties engaging in the
battle. Women tainted and children
screamed and pandemonium reigned su-
preme. There were many broken and
bleeding heads, and several of the parties
are cunning for each other. Sister San
ders escaped, and still reigns as the belle
of the ball.
The present style Of medicine ads. is
giving every newspaper the look of a pict-
ure gallery. From every nook and corner,
and sometimes from the centre of the
sheet, faces of the happy people who have
been snatched from the ragged edge of
eternity beam upon the reader. It's as
tonishing and gratifying what lot of
women have been saved by the medicines
and had their pictures taken. Under these
pictures are all sorts Of, happy descriptive
lines, such as "The Kind that Cures"
''She was Surprised, "Feels Like New
Women" etc. Now, some Of these faces
are by no means pretty, but any one of
them isquite an improvement on the corpse
that they would have been if they hadn't
used the curative panacea.-Franklin
Nees.
Contracts have been let for the fur
nishing of35, ,00O, 900 admission tickets to the
Worlds Fair. OF these 100000 will be
Autographed. and of such elaborate work
manship that counterfeiting them viii be
next to impossible. These are designed to
meet the orders which have been flowing
in for months, and they will be good when
ever presented at the gates. The remain
ing 80, ,OOO, 900 will be simply printed after
the style of an ordinary railroad ticket
These tickets will not be all alike. and
different style will be used each day.
They will be good only on the day on
which they are sold.
The following gentle lines won the
81. 900 prize recently offered by syndicate
OF editors for the best appeal-poem to news
paper.subsccribers to pay up their subscrip-
tions. The lucky and talented author is
the editor of the Rocky Mountain Celt
He has evidently - been there:''
Lives of great men oft remind US,
Honest men won't stand chance,
The more we work there grows behind us
Bigger patches on our pants.
| On our pants, once new and glossy,
Now are stripes of different hue
All because subscribers Hnger
And won't pay US what is due.
Then let US all be up and doing,
Send your mite however small