Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1894-01-26


sway the hardest rock was strikingly aI-
emplified at Vienna the other day. An
American acrobat wsgered vienna strong
man a considerable sum that he could not
endure to have quart of water fall, drop
by drop, from height of three feet, upon
his hand. The experiment was tried and
when 800 drops had fallen the Vienna gi-
ants face became extorted with pain. AT
the 420th drop he gave up, saying 1t was
impossible to stand the pain any longer.
His baud was swollen and inhsmed, and
in one place the skin was broken open.
Only small portion of the water had been
used. The Vienna man had learned les
son in regard to the power of small things
| that he will not be likely to forget.
-whooping- cough, Group, sore throat,
| influenza, bronchitis, cold and cough are
at once relieved and positively and
permanently cured by DR.. Bulls Cough
Syrup. the Incompatible remedy for sill
| pulmonary and throat affections.
Many a man whose prayers were long
will be kept out of heaven because his
yardstick was too short.
| A poor man in Indiana recently traded
a baby for drum, which he very much
wanted. The advantage of the drum. he
| thought, would be that it made noise
| only when he wanted it to do so. But the
neighbors made him swap the drum back
for the baby.
| John F. Robbins, formerly q wealthy
| citizen of Cincinnati, made q living by ped
ding tobacco in that city. In 1866 he
paid s., lis for q hogshead of white barley
tobacco, the highest price ever paid for it.
He worked it into n special brand OF plug
tobacco and made a fortune. He became
worth $3.50, ,000 but was detected by the
Government shipping manufactured tobac-
co without stamps. The trial took every
penny of his fortune.
Consumption surely Cured.
Tc TIE sDrroR:-Please inform your reader.
that nave positive remedy for the above-nsmed
| disease. B. q timely use thousands Of hopeless
cases have N n permanently cured. shall be glad
| to send two .:o.tles OF my remedy FREE TO any ..
| your readers "a have consumption IL they wl1
send me theii Express and p. o. address. Respect.
nly. Ia. sLLCUA. II. O.. isl Pearl 81. n. Y.
The money coined in the United States
mints in 1898 amounted to $66, 934, ,749
about SlS. .OOO. 900 more than was coined IL
| 1892. Of this amount $50, ,997, ,02o was ii
gold. The total coinage of subsidiary
silver in 1898 amounted to only 81, 134, ,932
but the larger accumulation of this money
in the public Treasury shows that the
supply is in excess of the demand fol
it.
DIR. Leslie E. Kelley, the famous jag
cure man, of Dwight ILL.,, treats all case'
of grip with asafptida, given in four grain
pills, one pill four times day.
| Rheumatism cured in day-"M ystit
cure" for rheumatism and neuralgia, radio
ally cures in l to days. Its action upoI
the system is remarkable and mysterious
IL removes at once the cause and the dis
ease Immediately disappears. The hrs
dose greatly benefits. 70 cts. Sold by }.
Redick, druggist, Butler.
William A Wheeler, once Vice Presi
dent of the United States, was once asked
by a young man, a relative of his, to hell
him to procure clerkship in ore OF thu
departments at Washington. His reply
was about as follows: "If you apply 10
such a position and will let me know wheI
you do so, will do all that can-to pre-
vent your getting it."
Some three hundred and odd cats arr
maintained by the United States Govern
ment. the lost of their support being car
ried as regular item on the accounts o
the Postoffice Department. These cats are
distributed among about 80 postofices, sne
their duty is to keep rats and mice from
eating and destroying postal matter.
The Spanish peasant works every LAY
and dances half the night, and eats only
his black bread, onion, and watermelon
The Smyrna porter eats only little trui
and some olives, yet he carries with east
his load of 200 pounds.
The distinction of being the oldest
pair OF twins In the country belongs tc
Richard and John McGriff, the former nov
of Dearfeld, the latter of Geneva, Ind
they have nearly attained their ninetietf
birthday.
Lucinda Bedford, an ex-slave, who
died in Nashville, Tenn, last week at tht
age of "a years, left fortune Of consider
ably over $l00, OO0. All her children ar.
dead and most of fortune will go to coloret
relatives.
An Iowa woman dumped her husband
into a well, threw rocks in after him and
then emptied shot gun down the well
This sounds bad, but then you knew what
kind of husbands some men are.
| The only reason some people are blue