Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1893-05-26
The fragran. lilac is in bloom.

The fragrant lilac is in bloom.
Tommy Miles has opened barber
shop at Mars.
Seaside resort people Go not anticipate
much opposition from the Worlds Fair.
The Standard Oil Company is erecting
extensive refneries in France, it is said.
The man who owns a rich marble
quarry may be said 70 have blasted for
tune.
1t is now the fashion for swell young
men to have their gloves made to meas
ure.
The re cent naval demonstrations have
doomed boys sailor suits in the clothing
stores
A woman in the dentists chair always
stands the pain with more fortitude than
q man.
The sale of the Harrisburg Telegram,
has been prohibited in the borough of Brad
dock, Pa.
-Pink-eye has broken out in the Eastern
States. Pink-eye is good running mate
for red nose.
Its dangerous to say for certain, but
in all pro liability Jack Frost has at last
been dethroned.
-McCombs Cruikshank of Winfield twp.
Is building barn 44x67 feet with ten
foot stone wall.
The average temperature this month
has been lower than for any May for twen-
ty years in this climate.
Wouldn't it be good idea to turn that
big Krupp gun at the Worlds Fair on the
people Of extortionate prices
The "Armory Building Association
of this town will apply to Court next Mon
week for dissolution of its Charter.
The high wind on Tuesday got under
the roof of Koch's store building on Main
street and almost lifted the entire roof
off.
If spring earthquakes were common in
this locality some inventor would get out
apatent utilizing them for shaking car
pets.
Several citizens living in the suburbs
of Zelienople will apply at next term of
Court for an extension of the borough
limits.
AT Lancaster, this state, bell rings
at eleven O'Clock every night, when all
saloons must be promptly closed according
to law.
Susan B. Antony thinks we are upon
the eve of an era of unmarried women.
An eve Of unmarried men, in that event,
would appear to be inevitable.
When q married man discards cigar
ettees and his meerchaum and takes to a
clay pipe, he is considered to be in the
seventh age of the welded state.
The man putting on his last summers
vest and finding two-dollar note in the
pocket is happier than the candidate who
is promised enough votes to nominate him.
-Supt. Hess of Mercer county has ap-
pointed seven delgates to the W. G. Auxil-
iary of the Worlds Fair from the pupils Of
that county. Is Butler not be represent
ed alsof
The statistics show that the colored
people of Virginia pay taxes on property
valued at $l3, 900, 900. That is no bad re-
cord for class which thirty years ago was
bought and sold in the open market with
the cattle and horses and hogs.
A locomotive on the New York Cen
tai Railroad, which was made for exhi
bition at the Worlds Fair few DAYS age
made a run between Rochester and
Buffalo of one mile in 80 seconds, or al
the rate of 112i miles an hour.
The First Annual Report of the Sup
erintendent of Banking of Pennsylvani,
has just been issued, which shows that th,
deposits in State Banks are over $45, 900,
600 in Savings Banks over $66, 00O, 900 and
in Trust Companies over $50, 600, 900.
Some one has discovered that th
balloon shoulders now worn with ladies
dresses were denounced as long ago as tn
time of Ezekial, who, in chapter xii.
verse Is, utters the warning cry: "Thu
saith the Lord: Woe to the woman VIII
sews pillows to all arm-holes!"
A writer in housekeepers periodica
says that canary birds are fond of oats
They enjoy hulliDg out the grains and Gag
erly devour every kernel in their cups. l
agrees with them does not make them to
rat, and promotes a luxuriant growth G
shining plumage that will glisten in th
sun as never before.
There is rough land on almost all on
farms where it would pay better to plan
nuts, both for timber and for the nuts 70
the market, than anything else. A larg
farm with these trees set on the roadside
perhaps 80 feet from the centre of the roa
and 20 feet apart. would sell enough nut
annually to pay the taxes and leave O SUI
plus for each picker sufficient to pay fl
picking. Just why farmers should neglet
to properly care for such trees and suffe
loss thereby is strange.