Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1893-07-28
The government postage stamp bus

The government postage stamp busi
| ness is about the only one that can be sue
cessfully conducted without advertising
The word "abstemious" is one of the
| few that contain all the vowels in their
regular order 1t is moreover good word
without regard to vowels.
This season there were shipped from
Ridgely, Caroline County, Nd, 100000
quarts of strawberries, which netted the
growers 100000 above all expenses.
Rheumatism cured in a day-"Mystic
cure" for rheumatism and neuralgia radio
ally cures in l to days. Its action upon
| the system is remarkable and mysterious.
| 1t removes at once the cause and the dis
ease Immediately disappears. The first
| dose greatly benefits. rs cts. Sold by j. c.
Redick, druggist Butlel.
Kansas is now suffering from new
| specis of political economy that beats the
| cinch bug. Some other phenomenal states.
| men want the state to assume control of all
| flour mills in its borders and grind wheat
free for any man who brings it. That's
novel scheme for what might be termed
| free flourage. It's a step far in advance Of
| free coinage.
to do good, but they are in no hurry to
| commence.
| An odd thing happened day or two
ago that suggests caution to travellers.
A lady was seated in an express train near
an open window leaving Philadelphia read
ing book. Smelling something burning
she looked down and found her dress on
| fire. A good-sized hole had been burned,
but there was no flame. A spark from the
engine of a freight train had entered the
window.
The executive committee of Pennsyl-
vania's Worlds Fair commission has fixed
upon Thursday, September 7th, as "Penn-
sylvania Day at the Exposition. An effort
will be made to secure excursion rates on
all railroads
Berks County farmers whose corn was
moved down by hail, are sowing buck
wheat in the fields.
The Christian Endeavor membership
has grown from sixty eight in 1881 to l.
500, 900 in 1893. This doesn't look as il
the cause Of religion were suffering from
retrogression.
They say that the true reason for the
withdrawal of gold from circulation lies in
the quantity OF the precious stuff that has
been used in the jag cures Yet this can
hardly be true, for the jag-cure gold has
| go into the circulation to be effective.
| An Illinois woman mas applied for the
position of assistant secretary of agricul-
ture. Secre tary Morton is widower,
| The humorous accounts in some ex-
changes in regard to "Darkey Sam the
| Zulu chief of the wrecked Main circus,
crediting him to Mercer county, and locat-
| ing him at the county aimshouse, are some
what off. The escaped Zulu chief belongs
over in Warren. Tie Chronicle says:
| 'Darkey Sam, who deserted the county
infrmary to grace the cage of the Zulu
| chief with Mains circus, is back at the
poor house. HI has had a suffciency of
| the circus business, and will meekly at
| tend to farm labor for the remainder Of the
season. Sam left the show just prior to
the wrecking of the circus train at Tyrone,
Pa, and as his travelling mate was killed
there, figures that deserting the show
saved his life. Sans fall-out with the
management dated from the time that he
was asked to hustle tent poles and canvas.
His understanding was that his position
was to To look aboriginal and do no work,
and he promptly quit the job"
A score or more of Hartford people,
who attended picnic and ate literally Of
lobsters clans and blue fish, and topped
off with unstinted quantities of Ice cream,
and soon atterward became i'll, were quite
sure they had been poisoned.
| Prof j. S. Newman of Clemson Col
lege, South Carolina, says that land in
that state has been more productive since
the great earthquake, and that there has
been much less malaria than before. His
explanation is that the earthquake provid-
ed better drainage.