Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1893-12-29

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LO CAL AND GENERAL.
That this here worlds world of woe
don't make no denial,
An speak Of one who's had his share
OF human grief and trial,
/ sometimes wish 1t was all past,
BeiD' 80 worry driven,
But when / fggsr out at last,
I'm glad an alvin.
Our troubles come like flies In cake
There's lots more cake than flies;
There's ten square deals TO every fake,
Ten smiles TO every Sigh;
There's sneaks, but lots Of good men, too;
There's hoardin', but there's givin,
And that il why | take this view,
I'm glad / am ALVIN.
Pc found that in tEis vale of tears
The patent proof umbrella
Is kinder castin' up the fears
OF some poor other fellow.
Don't treasure up your rights an wrongs,
Don't grudge, but be forgiyin';
Nal this the chorus Of your song:
I'm glad / am a livin'.
Almost every person you meet ID COM
planning Of the grippe
1t doesn't take eight quarts to make a
peck Of trouble.
Smokers Of Christmas cigars should re-
member that all is not gold that glitters.
One hundred and nineteen school girls
have written odes on the dying year.
"A man who was run over by bicycle
says it made him tired.
When man is ordered to take a gait
On 1t TN nonsense for him to take oGense.
A man never realizes how much
poverty there il in the world until be tries
TO borrow dollar.
-f'You are standing me up' ia tile latest
phrase with the man who suspects that he
is being fooled.
Andrew Carnegie has agreed to dupli-
cate all contributions TO the needy Of Pitts
burg, up to %, 600 day.
The Cowen Orchestra Of Tarentum gave
q fue ball In the new opera house In Sax
onburg. one evening last week.
y. G. Broaden, Eco, Of Clay twp will
have sale Of personal property next Fri
day. Charley intends moving to w. Sun
bury.
The new /. o o. r. Hall at Freeport
was dedicated last Friday evening. 8. II.
Bewser, Esq, made the dedication
speech.
Venus, who is now the evening star. is
glorious object in the western sky Just
after twilight. She will reach her greatest
brilliancy on the 9th Of January.
Al Heck spends hundred dollars
every year In calendars and pictures. He
has beautiful assortment Of them for his
customers this season.
Lent comes unusually early next year
beginning Feb. 7. Palm Sunday IL
March IS, Good Friday March %, and
Faster Sunday March 25-a little too early
for new spring bonnets.
Should Utah be admitted as one Of the
States, the residents of the new State
should endeaver to fall into line and re-
strict themselves to one country, one flag
and one wife.
In recent issue Of county paper
was this well intended but unhappy cor
rection: ''The announcement Of the death
OF Mr.. John 5ecgwick reached us from a
usually Trustworthy correspondent, and we
regret that be appears to hare been misin-
formed"
The Pittsburg Commercial Gazette
offers eight beautiful water color scene.
from the Midway PIaisance Of the World i
Fair by the celebrated artist, W. H. Crane.
for every subscription to it's weekly. The
pictures are gems ard will ornament any
UP ha AaIf "a
charge npon receipt Of address and sub
scription money.
Our storek eepers did good business
last Saturday. several Of them doing from
four to six hundred dollars The streets o,
Pittsburg were crowded that day, Fifth
Ave, Market and Sixth streets being al.
most impassible, and some Of the larger
stores were doing tremendous business.
One would hardly have supposed from tbe
crowds OF shoppers on the streets anI In
the stores that there were thousands o.
starving people In the two cities, and yet
there was a crowd around the charity
Office ON Sixth Ave.
DIR. Schaeffer, superintendent Of publis
instruction, urges some very strong reasons
against the custom Of holding elections In
the school houses He points ont many
serious objections TO this practice besides
the loss Of time. He said II the childrer
return on the morning after the election .,
that third day may not be lost, the,
sometimes find the floor covered will
tobacco juice and NIL sorts Of rubbish, o
newly scrubbed and In tile process Of dry
ing. When evening comes ono child MAJ
have Group, another sore throat, another
cough, and at the close Of every election
some children are carried to the cemetery
"A Butler and Portersville man had
great time with young fellow from POI
tersviIle last Thursday evening. Th
young man came to Batter with hors
and buggy, and he got drunk-very drunl
That evening be had his horse hitched NJ
and be started off ut rattiing gait; aud
80 happened that the Butler and Porters
willie men had business near MI Chertnr
that evening and were following after biz
otherwise we would probably be r,
cording the death OF the young man
PortersviIle On the hill west Of Butl,
the young man ran into the bank and WI
upset, and the two bottles Of liquor thi
went flying into the mud were taken fro