Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1893-04-21
adiest Of ali creatures.

1 -"Iuck's the glddlest OF al cleatule-i
Nor likes in one place long 70 stay;
She smoothes the hair back from her
features,
Kisses You quick and runs away.
Dame ill-luck is in no such hurry,
Nor quick her close embrace she quits;
She says she's in no kind Of hurry,
And sits upon your bed and knits.
The second lecture of the University
Extension Course, was delived on Tuesday
evening by Prof Powell. The next lee
ture will be next Tuesday evening by Prof.
Powell.
A stump orator wanted the wings of
bird to fly to every village and hamlet in
the broad land, but he collapsed when a
man in the crowd sang ont ''You'd get
shot for goose before you few a mile. -
The Creamery at Prospect under the
management Of Mr. o. ". Stoughten is
doing rushing business. 1t is making
thre, thousand pounds of butter each
mouth, and has customers for all it can
make.
/ Mr.. C. P. Johnston, the tailor of Pros
pect, wants to employ good coat-maker,
and a tailoress who can do any kind OF
work He will be in Butler next Monday
afternoon at O'Clock, and can be found at
this Office.
A giant is included in a consignment
of Bolivian Indians for the Worlds Fair
landed in New York Saturday. His name
is Jose Mamani, he is 9 feet 10 inches in
| height, % years old and weighs AIS pounds.
He is said to be the largest man in the
| world.
"A philanthropist once said, 81 expect
to pass through this life but once. II,
therefore there is any kindness can show,
or any good l can do, to any fellow being,
let me do it now. Let me not defer or
neglect it, for 1 shall not pass this way
again"
David Seton, who has been farming |
the A. Il. Smith farm in Fawn township, |
for the past year, has removed to Riddles
x Roads, Butler county. Dave has pur
chased half interest in machine for
dibcEldn HeilS dIA th4S
business hereafter. Any orders addressed |
to him will receive prompt attention.-San
The School Directors of the county will |
meet at the Court House, in Butler, on
Tuesday, May 2, 1893, for the purpose Of
electing County Superintendent for the |
ensuing three years, and the School Di- |
rectors Of Butler Borough will meet in the |
Jefferson St. school building, same day for
the purpose of electing Borough Supter-
inte ndent.
"A very faithful portrait Of ''Uncle
Jake" Ziegler, Diseased, has been on ex-
hibition in the show window ofTroutman's |
store for some days. 1t was executed by |
Miss Ida Sleppy Of Chicago, formerly of
this place, by the order of Mrs. VIII |
Lowry, who will present it to Ziegler
Lodge No. 1899 of l. 0. 0. f., the said |
lodge having been named in her fathers |
honor.
christianity offers the only rock upon
which to stand when one is confronted by |
life's mysterious problem. 1t puts fresh |
bloom upon manhood; it lifts up and re-
juvenates the dead despairing soul. Take
up the Cross of Christ and you see bright |
immortal CLEAN Of hope across the black
gulf of despair. You feel His eye in the |
quiet CLEAN of the stars and His voice
speaks 10 you through all nature.
A fly will lay four times during the
summer, so eggs each time, and careful
calculations have demonstrated that the
descendants of single insect may from
June ] to the end Of September exceed g.
000 900. Were it not for bats, insect eat
ing birds and the innumerable mircroscop.
ic parasites with which the fly is particu-
larly afflicted, there would be no worse
pest in the world than the fly.
Here is short sermon by a woman,
though not preached from the pulpit. 1t is
good one, and pretty sure to hit you
somewhere, whatever may be your age and
circumstances: "The best thing to give
your enemy is forgiveness;.to an opponent
tolerance; to friend your heart; to yonr
father, Difference; to your mother. conduct
that will make her proud of you; to your
self respect; to all men, charity"
The biggest tree in Pike county stood
until week or 30 ago in Greene township.
1t was such a towering monarch that set
tiers cut all around it, and for century it
was notable landmark on the mountain
top. When chopped down it was found to
measure 372 feet in length, and the infal-
lible record Of the rings showed its age to
be 462 years. IL was born 62 years before
Columbus touched America. About $2,
900 worth of lumber can be sawed from
this giant tree.
1t is most commendablc to be good
housekeeper but don't be fussy one. 1t
isn't necessary to make everyone uncom-
Portable around you in your crusade against
untidyness, and remember always that but
one room at time can be set in order;
therefore do not upset the whole house in
your jealous ardor. Keep one nook cosy
ard comfortable for the men folks TO drop
into at night. Try and remove as far az
possible the annoyances Of the spring
cleaning from those who toll outside all
day long, and need rest when they come
home at the close instead Of having to
camp out any way or anyhow just because
the house is being put into its summer
clothes.
USE DANAS' SARSAPARILLA, ITS
THE KIND THAT CURES"
"XCURSIoNS will not be run fre-
IA quently although this Columbian
"A <year il to be great one for travel |