Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1894-09-27
LOCAL AND GENERAL.


There was a man in our town,
And he was wondrous wise,
And wealthy, too, because he knew
Just how to advertise.
His lads" were writ with skill and grace;
The rest is very plain,
The money that he spent for space"
1t all came back again.
Joseph wuller has sold his drug store
to DR.. Johnston. the dentist.
Some frost this week, but it is said to
The bottle works will resume opera
tions to-day.
Two young men of Butler died this
week-Chas Palm at Norristown and Paul
Clark here
The editor of the Edin boro Iadepen-
dent was arrested for libel last week by
Hunt of the Normal School faculty.
Gordon Thorn of West Sunbury are
doing good business in flour and feed
They also buy and sell grain.
"A. w. Starr of Concord twp. near Mid
dletown, will have sale of personal prop
erty ON Friday, October ).
Sixty y-three persons are receiving aid
from the boro of Butler and the expenses
of the Poor Board average $140 q month.
Very few tenement houses are vacant
in Butler at present, and down by the W.
p. depot another big oil well supply ware
house is being built.
AT New York, Friday night, a gang OF
10 or 12 tougts held up street car in the
heart of the city and took all their valua-
bles The police aught most of them.
j. ID. Smith of Centre twp. has already
made 1j6 barrels Of cider this year, and
thinks he will make as much more. He
has steam cider-mil on his place-the
old Garrard place-and the apples all came
from the neighborhood.
A careful observer in another town has
noted the fact that for the past ten years
IL has raired on the 7th of September. |
The long dry spell hereabouts was broken |
by o copious and very welcome rain on |
September 7, 1894. This makes the 11th
consecutive year it has rained on that
day.
The Ladies Missionary and Aid Socie- |
ty of Bethany Reformed Church will hold
their 4th anniversary on Sunday, Sept 30,
at 7:30. An elaborate programme is being
prepared, and all who are interested in
church and missionary work are cordially
invited to be present Come. A liberal
collection is asked for. All are welcome.
The sixth ince cendiary fire in week at
Erie was at the Erie City car shops, and
$25O,O0O property went up in smoke.
There was little insurance and the loss will
be severely felt. The city Is greatly ex-
cited over the fires and every precaution
Is being taken to guard against their repe-
tition.
A very singular cure for dyspepsia is
practiced in Southern Oregon. When any
one complains of indigestion or an irrita-
BILE stomach he is at once advised to take
q dose Of sand. The treatment is nothing
less than spoonful Of common everyday
river-bottom sand taken wet just after
meals. 1t is said to have proven quite
successful, and as there is no patent on it
anyone can try it. The curative property
of the sand is ascribed to its mechanical
action nm tho nnuoouz Ii,ip1 &c fho rraI1u
of the stomach. There is plenty Of sand
in the river, and if the cure is effectual
there is no reason why any one should
suffer from dyspepsia, but the average
sufferer will prefer a physicians prescrip-
tion or bottle of patent medicine. It re-
quires sand to take sand internally, but
the remedy ought certainly to be worthy
of trial. If it is as efficient as it is cheap
the patent medicine man might just as
well 90 out OF busness.-0il City Derrick.
The home is our asylum aud the owe
of dear ones is our defense In the plan CT
divine Providence the home occupies po-
sition of conspicuous importance. A hap
py home is the prophecy Of useful life for
every child reared under its benignant
watchfllness; home in which discord pre-
walls sends its boys and girls into the world
with handicapped aspirations The child
who carries sweet memories with him car
Ties also a shield for protection, but he
who bears embittered memories falls easier
prey to The evils which will attack. A
happy home in the background throws
q radiance on each succeeding day, even
though the day be stormy and tempestu-
Gus. The good father lives in the life of
the boy long after that father has crossed
the threshold Of cemetery, and the good
mother still speaks to the daughter when
that daughter has children Of her own.
The green sphinx caterpillars so fire.
quently found feeding upon the leaves of
grapsvines is often greatly burdened with
large number OF egg shaped cocoons of
parasitic insect, an ichneumon fly. the CO.
coons sticking out Of the caterpillar's skin
the same as bristles on a round brush This
parasitic insect, on maturing in its shell,
bursts the upper end thereof, crawls ont,
and then sails fourth on its own wings.
The minute ichneumon flies lay their tiny
eggs in the skin of the caterpillar, and
from these eggs hatch the larve, which
live within aud get their nourishment from
the caterpillar. The caterpillars infested
by these parasites die before attaining ma
turity; but if healthy caterpillars that are
not burdened with the parasitic cocoons be
found, 1t is possible to obtain a pupa or
chrysalis which, when properly kept, will
change the following year to moth be-
longing to the sphinx or hawk moths,
which in the morning and evening twi-