Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1893-12-08

| When a man has plain sickness there
is seldom any danger of fatal results, bu
when what the doctors call "complica
tions" set in, then is the time to pray.
A postmaster pointing to three or foul
| letters held for postage, said: ANY man
is likely to put letter in the postoffict
| without stamping it. With card on the
| corner of the envelope, we can stamp il
and collect the postage when the writer
come in. We don't know who dropped
those letters into the box and must holt
them until we write to the person address
ed and they send US the postage. That il
the rule of the postoffice department. Ev.
cry writer OF letter ought to have hi
name printed or stamped on the envelope.
An old soak says ifthere is anything
that will cling closer to a man than pitcl
plaster. it is the effects Of poor whisky
drunk.
Twice annually-spring and fall-new
schedules of time for the running of pas
senger trains are issued on our railroads
| The fall schedules went into effect. last
Sunday. Look over them.
The latest fad is poverty sociable
Every woman must wear a calico dresi
and every man his old clothes. In addi
tion. each one is to be fined % cents if ht
or she does ndt have patch on his or hel
clothing, and prize is given to the one
wearing the poorest garment.l
is America to have new disease
Six Hindoos afflicted with what is called
"berri berri," Of which three Of their com
panions died during the voyage. arrived il
the steamer Lanark of Philadelphia las
week, from Java August 8. The doctor
are puzzled over the disease. 1t is hoped
berri-berri will not become epidemic.
If you are subject to rheumatism, TAX,
Hoods Sarsaparilla as a preventive ant
cure.
"A man in Kansas named Hays raised
nine boys. No. l, J. B. Hays, jumped int
a well and drowned himself. No. 2 dranl
poison, Mo- 3 used rope. No. 4 wa
drowned iu tank in the State prison
No. did himself mp with sharp knife.
The question in the Pittsburg Women'i
Missionary Society last week seemed to b,
as to spending money on the bodies O
Christians or the souls of heather, and the
heathen won.
Floyd Vondale, % years old, Of Cres
ton, stumbled and fell while returning
from hunting trip. discharging his shot
gun into his chin, tearing off both jaws and
lodging the contents of the gun back Of
his eyes.
The fate of the Brazilian rebel shir
Javary shows that armor only helps wal
/ ship to sink the faster when one of the
high power coast defence guns get q fail
whack at her. The Javary was srmored 0
foot thick.
The value of the English life boat ser
vice, of which The people are so proud, was
illustrated by the statement in the Com
mons yesterday. that in the recent storm
237 persons were lost on the English apc
Irish coasts, but that COZ had been saved
by the brave boatn.en.
= One OF the cruelest things about The
Lehigh Valley strike is that it throws ou
Of employment nearly 10000 miners wht
have no grievance Of their own, but mus
stop work because there are no trains tt
carry the coal
-Pennsylvania's annual crop yield II
worth 5000, 900, 900. There are 5000, 00t
live stock The State produces nearly
1000, 900 tons of iron in the anthracite
furnaces, nearly 100000 in bituminoui
furnaces and II 900 tons Of charcoal iron
Over 628, 900, 900 tons of anthracite Goa
have been mined in the State, and one oil
field has yielded $50, O0O, 900 barrels.
There was good sleighing in Cory
Pa, last week.
Now is the time to get in the bes
licks in advertising.
Live items of news are always &C
ceptable at the newspaper office.