Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1893-02-17

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their intending to do so, not later than
Monday morning.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Ten ordinary eggs weigh one pound.
Last Tuesday night was "Fasnacht.'
The first spring goods announced are
seeds.
The missing word is usually spelled
with big d.
Cholera and hoopskirts threaten to
come together.
A modest fashion writer has published
q long description of ladies' "underattire."
1t does not pay any business men to
reserve bis advertising for the Sheriff.
The next legal holiday is washington's
birthday, February %.
The very cold weather insures large
crop Of maple syrup
1t is said that, the entire world over,
there are 90 women to 100 men.
Ignorance of the law excuses no man
not even lawyer.-Pack.
Powdered hair is fashionable, but
good many OF us wear ours decolette.
Teeth made OF paper are now man
ufactured by German dentists, and are said
to last for years.
We passed man Monday morning who
called the snow of that day ''Sugar
Snow
1t is said that man was originally as
hairy "as the opossum,v but It is doubtful
ifhe was ever as good eating.
The struggling young lawyers first
few years at the bar are made up princi-
pally of legal holidays.
Talk is cheap. If you don't believe
it see how mnch you can get for the price
of q shave.
Scientists say that too much food, too
much physical exercise and too much edu-
cation are among the worst foes of the
memory.
The man who objects most to the big
hat at the theatre has nothing to say
against it at church. He sleeps behind
it.
Overheard: 'rWhy does she marry
him on two months acquaintance" "If
she knew him longer, she would not marry
him at ALL"
Onions are following oysters and eggs
in price. They are now being sold at
81 .25 per bushel in the onion raising dis
tricts Of the Lake Shore.
The entire National Guard Of this
state will attend Cleyeland's Inauguration;
and will be supplied with quarters free of
cost during the stay in Washington.
THOMAS E. SHEA.-the patrons Of the
drama in this city will be highly entertain
cd during the engagement which that more
than clever young actor Nj. Thos. Z. Shea
will soon fulfill here.
A burglar broke into q clothing store a
few nights ago and had fierce hand-to
hand encounter with q lifel like dummy,
which he mistook for the proprietor Of the
place. The noise attracted the police and
the thief was arrested.
AT the meeting of the School Board,
Thursday evening, the monthly bills were
approved; and Miss Rhoda Heath was
elected to fill the place of Miss Nicely
mands, now Mrs. Steele, teacher who re-
signed to marry.
Tremendous crowds gathered around
the Hafele grocery store. last Saturday
afternoon and evening. waiting for the
Sheriff to begin his sale. The store was
closed on an execution issued by Mr..
Hafele's father.
Every now then and we hear of some
one being poisoned by the friction of brass
collar buttons aginst the back of the neck.
If you desire to live out your allotted time
do not permit brass collar button to in
sinuate its poisonous erosions into the back
OF your neck.
"A town boy was boasting to country
boy the other day of the advantages of the
town in the way of fun. "Look at the fun
we have tying tin cans to dogs tails" said
he. "That's nothing" said the country
boy; 1--WE tic tin boilers to bulls tails"
The police are looking for ]. r. John
son, who claims to be a drummer for
Philadelphia clothing house. About two
weeks ago johnson and his wife, pretty
Butler county girl whose maiden name wai
frankie Heath, arrived in Sharpsburg and
stopped at Charles O'Donneps Hotel
Last Friday johnson was presented with
his bill, and disappeared. His 18.year- ole
bride thinks he has deserted her, and says
she has reason to think that johnson hai
another wife in Ohio.-Pittsburg Tines
ed means, whose children were afflicted
with whooping cough, wrote to a news
paper, begging the editor to indicate a
remedy. Imagine her Indignation when
couple of days later, she read opposit
her address the following prescription
"If they are not too young, skin then
carefully, put them in boiling water, ad,
plenty of salt, and let them simmer 70
eight days in the brine" Her wrath wa
with difficulty appeased on her being as
sured that the printer had transferred t.
the wrong column q recipe for picking
onions.
"A dispatch from New Castle date
Monday, said: William ID. Wallace, Esq.
Col. o. T. Jackson and Hon. Fl. W. Grigs
by left this evening for Harrisburg, whsr
they will appear before the judicial appor
tionment committee of the House and in
troduce evidence and arguments to con
Vince the committee that Lawrence count,
should he made a separate judicial distric
apart from Butler. A bill to accomplish
this has already passed the senate commit
tee on judicial apportionment. If it be
comes a law Lawrence county will b
known as the Fifty first judicial district an
Judge Hazen Of Butler will be Presiden
Judge.