Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1894-10-18
LOCAL AMI GENERAL.

LOCAL AMI GENERAL.
Sugar alone will sustain lite for a con-
siderable time.
There are said to be dozen gambling
establishments in Butler.
There is not vacant house or store
room in Evans City.
Court plaster should never be put on a
bruised wound.
The Evans City Water Company has
good supply, but it is rumored that the gas
supply will be short
The Wick or Arner House is becoming
favorite place for marriages. 1t aver
aged one day last week.
Go out from Butler along any of the
railroads aud you will find gang oil
tramps.
AT the meeting of the Buffalo twp.
Farmers League, Monday evening, the
vote against Poor House was unanimous
George Hammer, the butcher, was
"held mp by three m en-, near his slauen-
ter house on the 3-de gree or Kalb road'
last Monday evening.
Some srow fell On the Northeastern
mart of the county last Sunday night UP
about Karns City it is said to have been
about an inch deep Monday morning.
-Buckwheat is q herbaceous plant and
ia native of Asia. Its name is derived
from the German beech nut, owing to Its
similarity in color and shape
&C. N. Boyd, the popular druggist, has
ordered fine soda water fountain from
James W. TUFTS, of New York. Charley
expects 70 have the finest and largest
fountain in the vicinity.
Mr.. j. W. Todd sends us some pear
blossoms, plucked this week, from a tree
in his lot at Ssrver's Station. pear tree
in the yard of Hugh Maxwell, Mercer St.
was in blossom last week. Such freaks OF
nature are unusual.
w. s. Douthett, of Forward township,
has purchased the fast pacing horse Batler
Chief from a. A. Moorehead. He can be
seen at Mr.. Douthett's farm near Brow3s-
dale. Butler Chief has a record Of 2:25,
won on the Butler track in the fourth heat
of q race in 1898.
The PAGER Roy H., who won a race at
the fair here was burned to death at Kittan-
ming last week He had red uced his mark
to 2:O92. At Dubois last Saturday, Craw-
ford the fast pacing stallion owned By the
Strattons, of Eyansb urg, Crawford county,
died. His mark was 2:074.
DR.. B. E. Dennison and George Emrick,
of Bruin, shot three large pelicans near
that place last week. There we're four
birds, when discovered, standing in the
creek watching for fish, and the gentle
men were lucky enough to shoot three.
They are being mounted by taxader-
mist at Millerstown.
M. 3. Lesvitrs popular "Spider aDC
Fly will soon be here. While remaining
essentially the same as in former seasons,
the piece has been materially improved il
details, and Ia now being by a specially
selected company of artists numberia 8
over two score. The scenic features art
perfection. and the specialties are up t
date and Of the very highest class.
The Plate Glass Co. here has under
taken to cas-; lens 62 inches in diamete
and inches thick, for Rev. Peate OF
Greenville, an old gentleman who has
contract with the NJ. Il. University a
Washington, D. c., for perfec
lens of that size. The castini
must be without a flaw, and all the polish
ing OF lenses is done by hand. The len
will probably be cast square and afterward
cut and ground.
Plans and specifications for the Y. N
C. A. building. which have been accepted
call for building 39x110 with nine foo
basement, which il to contain the bath
and swimming pool; first floor for offices
library and reading rooms; second floor
auditorium, seating 500; and q gymnasium
in rear of the main building and connecte
with it, whose interior will be 35tx4Si
with 81 foot ceiling The estimated COZ
of the building il SIC. 900. The lot at th
northeast corner Of the Diamond has bee
purchased from Mr.. Robinson for So, 20'
1t is 39x1S0.
How brief ia the span Of human lifel
is at best only an isthmus twixt tw
boundess seas, the past, the future-tw
eternities. Our days and months and yeal
go by so noiselessly that we scarcely not
the footballs Of their coming or their goinI
Childhood passes into youth in the twinl
ling of an eye. A little laughter, an hour
play with a few toys and the time arriv,
wnen childish things must be put ava,
Youth, exuberant youth, shortly sobe
into manhood. A dream or two, q fe
castles in the air, Aeeting vision Of
vine possibilities, then the shoulders broat
en- to bear heavier burdens, and the hea
recognizes the graver responsibilities
life Manhood changes TO old age like
flash of lightning in summer cloud. Son
hard words, some short years Of carne
toll, some days Of bitter disappointment
some nights of weary weeping, and tht
the nerves grow dull, the sight becom
dim, the SHOWS of winter are scatter,
over the bead, the hopes Of earlier da'
have either ripened or withered. The st
sets, we linger in the twilight for fe
moments and then the night comes dow
in which we can neither walk nor work.