Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1893-11-03

good as anythingl, until the spot seems
pretty well loosened, and then wash in
plenty of hot water and soap.
To take iron mould out of linen, hold
the spot over tankard of boiling water
snb rub with juice of sorrel and salt, and
when the cloth is thoroughly wet dip
quickly in lye and wash at once.
Some housewives say that the colors
of cotton fabrics will become "set" if salt
and water is employed, three gills of salt
TO four quarts of water. The calico is
dropped in the water while hot, and there
emains until it is cold
An Easy Catechism.
What is the secret of success in lifef
Work
What is it that makes one man greater
than another7
Work.
What is genius1
Work.
What makes nation great and prosper
Gus and happy2
Work.
What is religioni
Work
That little tickling in you throat indi
Gates catarrh, which is cured by Hoods
| Sarsaparilla.
A meteorologist says the wind blows
| in circle around a storm, and when it
blows from the north the heaviest rain is
east of you from the east, the heaviest
rain is south; from the south, the heaviest
rain is west; from the west, the heaviest
rain is north.
A Kansas editor sarcastically an
n ounces that he wants to buy a sack of
-four, pair of three-ply bottom pants and
hat, and Is ready to receive lowest bids
for same. He says that is the way
the merchants do with him when they
want two dollars worth of job print
ing.
A hawk was shot by Albert Newlin, of
Laurenceburg, Ind, the other day When
he went TO pick up the body the birds mate
finally bore off the body of its dead mate
in triumph.
A farmer living near Three Lakes, in
Forest county, Wis, recently sold his
wife to man for $40. The woman is
said to have raised no objections to the
bargain.
All the hotels in CazenoYia. n. Y.
were closed against all corners a few days
ago because their managers were refused
licenses to sell liquors. They claim that
they cannot make their houses pay expen-
ses if they are deprived of the profits Of the
bars.
Anarchist Miss Golden will hold her
tongue for year. Probably this will be
a worse- punishment than the mere fact
of her being in the penitentiary.
Every boy who has a trade thoroughly
| learned, although he may not have dol
lar he can call his own, is better off than
he would be with SO, 900 in the bank and
no trade learned.
The Archbishops of York and London
each receive a salary Of $4,000 year;
and tie Archbishop of Canterbury receives
$75, 900 for years ecclesiastical work.
Young Mr.. Ruck, of New York, has
! threatened to shoot his ex- fancee, who re-
jected him for undersize. A ruck is de-
fined as wrinkle; but a rdction of this
sort is an entirely new sort of wrinkle.
There is trouble in the Presbyterian
church at Bellefonte, Pa, over the use of
unfermented wine at communion services
At recent communion 20 members, in
cluding two OF the elders refused to par
take of the wine on the ground that its be-
ing fermented rendered its use improper.
The pastor ard many of the communicates
including Ex-Governor Beaver, hold that
the question is an immaterlal one. If the
objectors insist on liquid that is not fer
mented, they have right to do so. Such
liquid is not VINE, however, even if it be
safer beverage than that in use in apos-
tolic times
Administrations may come and 90,
but Richard L. White sits serenely at his
desk in the Sixth Auditors Office at Wash
ington, filling position to which he was
appointed fifty-seven years ago. Mr..
White is believed to haye served ULcle
Sam for more continuous years than any
other of his public servants.
Ara mn ~ ,tyalI a nj ta1 with
your mother tongueP' asked a Harlem
school teacher of the new boy. Eyes, sir,
answered the boy tlmidly: "and so is pa.
Ma jaws us all the time"
The pear tree which was planted by
old Peter Stuyuesant in 1852 in that part
of New York which is now the corner of
Thirteenth street and Third avenue bloom
ed until thirteen years a go, when it was
blown down.
The spirit of Francis Bacon was sum-
moned at spiritualistc seance in Wash |
ington a few nights ago and not only
kindly responded but gratuitously inform
ed the little company present that he did
not write Shakespeare" and that, as far
as he knew, William Shakespeare did it |
himself
Several persons met death in Chicago |
during the Fair as result Of blowing out
the gas, and there are sections of the country |
that will keep right on furnishing victims
while hotels continue the use of gas for il |
Eliminating purposes.
An exchange gives the following good |
advice: when man playfully points
gun at you, knock MIN down. don't stop to |
inquire whether it is loaded or not knock |
him down. Don't be particular what you
knock him down with, only see that be is
thoroughly knocked down. If a coroner's
inquest must to be held, let it be en- the
other fellow-he won't be missed There
was case in point yesterday at Canons-
burg, Pa. A colored fellow named Davis
had a shotgun which he didn't know"
was loaded, and playfully snapped it at
Mary Shearer. The shot instantly killed
q child which she was nursing, and serious
ly wounded the mother.