Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1893-10-20
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Armory Opera House

LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Armory Opera House.
GILBERT OPERA coMPAyY-19th.
Fine production Of the Black Hussar; Forty
people on the stage; a strong company,
at the Opera Hause, Thursday evening. %,
IS, so and IS cents.
-Buckwheat cakes and sausage will
soon be in order.
Pumpkin stories and pumpkin pies are
in order now.
"A we'll posted man must not necessari
ly be stuck up.
Now is the time to adyertise-people
have time to read.
There were 2,12I, ,794 paid admissions
10 the Worlds Fair last week.
"A good crowd attended the Caldwell
sale in Jefferson twp. last Wednesday.
"A sugar trust-"Give me five pounds
Of granulated, and charge it please"
The age Of women and eggs can sell
dom be told by their outside appearance.
There's no distress deeper than that or
the youth with silk hat and patent leather
shoes caught in a rain withcut an umbrella.
Women who now attend church SIM
ply to show their cloaks are sacque-re-
Hgious.
-Flattery is an encouragement to a
fellow to 60 ahead and make a fool of
himself
There is good time coming, provided
We all move forward to meet it and help it
along.
Another large crowd of Butler people
left town for the Worlds Fair, Monday
and Tuesday Of this week.
The taking down of the old porch
scross the sidewalk greatly improves the
appearance Of Main st., south of the Court
Houce.
The two gas wells on the Alex Brews-
ter farm miles north of town are for sale.
One of them registers 1000 pounds and the
other 1900
The High School Of Buffalo twp, open
cd in Mechanics Hall, Saryersville, Mon
day with forty scholars in attendance.
Prof. Mccullough of Centre twp. is the
teaohef.F 4"
Hereafter civil causes tried in the But
Ter Court will be set down for particular
day OF the term, and not all for the first
day Of the term as heretofore.
Communion services will be held in
the White Church in Butler twp, next
Sunday, and preparatory services Saturday
ct 1880.
They have filled the pots at the Plate
disss works, and will begin casting as
soon as the new roof over the hall is com
pleted.
The annual meeting of the "Glade
Anti-Tobacco and Temperance Society,".
viii be held in the West sunbury Acade-
my, Friday evening, Oct 9th.
Quite number of vessels were wreck
cd on the lakes during the storm of last
Saturday, and many lives lost. One
steamer went down with eighteen on
board.
Two cranky old men in front of a
house in which wedding was in progress
"This is happy day." quoth one. "Ard
his next" marled the other, twill be the
day he buries her,"
The ringing Of the ''curfew belp might
be proftably adopted in this Borough
notifying boys to be home at q seasonable
hour. There are too many boys on our
streets at night.
Note the card Of the Country Gentle.
msn,"th best agricultural paper published
In the country. in another column 1t is
high priced-$2.50 q year-paper; but
We can club it with the CITIZEN at 90. 25 a
year for both.
One way to ease down what Is supposed
to be reputable thief" is that he was
fascinated by what he stole, and therefore
could not resist the temptation to steal.
How mild such an estimate Of thief to be
sure. 1t Is new definition for klepto-
mania.
A married lady was heard to remark
yesterday that she had to go home and
sew ON Democratic badge tor her hus
band. On inquiry what the badge wa,
she replied "a patch on the seat of his
pants" sitting around looking for work
An English paper gives q pointer foi
those foolish people who like to eat green
peas in winter and imagine they are lik,
those that come from the market gardens
In summer. The French understand the
art ofputtinK up these tasteless and delu
sive frauds knows as green peas" The
goods are simply stale peas greened will
sulphate Of copper. Nine tenths of tn
greened canned vegetables sold in Franc,
are greened and freshened with sulphate o
copper.
The Board Of Health has condemne,
swell and several water closets on Elm
st., near the West Penn depot; and al
their meeting with council, Tuesday even
ing, joint committe was selected to wal
upon Mr.. Duffy and try to arrange for sewer
ing the street; and if that cannot be &C
complished the Board proposes using tn
powers given it by the new law, to i'm
prove the sanitary condition of that PAL
ofthS town. ~
"A confusing postage stamp conundrur
~ going the rounds: A young lady enter
Cd postofice, handed dollar bill an
said that she wanted twice as many two
- ones aud the balance in threes. TIL
clerk started to count ont the stamps
grew perplexed, commenced figuring an
figured until the next day. Now wh,
can solve the problem Of how many stamp
were given the young lady by the clerk
Our devil figured on it and said he woul
rather take few postal cards rather thai
fnol a~ay ann mora <:..~ nrr Al