Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1894-12-06
LOCAL AND GENERAL.


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LOCAL AND GENERAL.
L C. Wick is erecting building Tor
a brass foundry on Centre Ave. near the
bridge.
Samuel Grove has had his addition TO
the town of Mars plotted, and is row ready
TO sell lots. Mars is improving rapidly.
-Ouite q number OF young men, inciud-
ing one in Butler, were seriously injured
in the foot ball games, played on Tnanks-
giving day.
About ten million shells of coal were
started south from Pittsburg. this week,
in barees. The late rains swelled the nv
ers.
Western cattle are being brought East.
for wintering and fattening. Feed is scarce
in some parts Of the West. Our meat
market men are paying cents for dressed
hogs.
"A new 35-ton pump is being put in
place at the Butler Water Works. IL Is oi
the Worthington make, and cost ABOUT
5000. A fence eight feet high, is being
erected around the reservoir.
At the meeting of council Tuesday
evening, several sidewalks were ordered To
be repaired; constable Mathers was allow
ed $40 attorney fees, and the monthly and
quarterly bills we're allowed excepting
that of the " ater Co. which was consider
ed too high.
The Cake walk" given by the mem
bers of the Sypher Hook and Ladder Co.,
was one of the most ludicrous things ever
seen in Butler. 1t was well patronized, as
il deserved to be, and netted the Company
about $50, with which to buy new hook
and ladder truck.
DIR. J. H. Lucas of Allegheny preach
cd a sermon against the City officials last
Saturday. he says that the Allegheny
police keep list of all the houses OF Ill
fame and gambling establishments, and
levy black-mail from them. Director
Murphy calls the sermon a political
dodge.
The Elks presented a fine appearance
on the stage of the Opera House last Sum
day afternoon. The music and singing
were good, and the remarks of Messrs
Mechling and Forquer, regarding the OBJ
jects of the Order, and of those whose
'faults are written in the sand, and virtues
on the tablets of love and memory" ap-
propriate. large audience attended the
services.
IT you would 60 happily through life
take gratefully the blessings God sends
thinking more OF what you have, than OF
what you have not II had most wonder
fui mercy today" said one friend to an
other J" Ny horse stumbled on the very
verge Of frigbttul precipice, and yet re-
covered himself, so that we did not fall
over" "Ahp said the other. ~ had
far more wonderful mercy than that. Ny
horse did not stumble at ALL"
A good story is told of a farmer who
had colored servant with a very large
mouth. One day, the farmer heiDg ill,
Sambo was dispatched to market to dispose
of quantity of vegetables On his way
home he encountered two highwaymeD,
who demanded his money or his life They
however, could lind no money, so after a
while they decamped with the horse and
cart. On arriving home Sambo explained
the robbery to his master, but drew from
the corner Of bis mouth the money, where
he had placed it for safety. why In The
name of thunder didn't you put the horse
and cart in there too" exclaimed the master
Teach your children to do little thing
about the house. 1t trains them to be use
full, not awkward in later and more import
ant affairs: 1t gives them occupation
while they are small, and it really Is al
assistance to the mother in the end, al
though she always feels during the train
ing period that it is much easier TO do
thing herself than to show another bow
This last excuse has done much 10 make
selfish, idle. 1nhandy members of an oldel
society. and should be remembered. in it
effects, by the mother while her little one
are beginning to learn all things, good ant
bad, at her knee. Occupation makes hap
pness. and occupation cannot be acquires
too young.
The silly practical joker has been a
it again. There is no objection To BARN
less joke, but the joke that causes Hines
or death or brings person into ridicnle o
contempt cannot be too severly denounce'
and there ought to be some way Of punish
ing the perpetrators. The other day som
mischevous members of an athletic ciu
in Newburg, New York, played trick
it was too coarse to possess the element @
humor-on party of Sunday school chill
drsn that may result in death. These fun
ny athletes bad their gymnasium beneat
the Sunday school room and the childre
were having Thanksgiving day festival
IL would he great fun, the athletes though
to play joke on the scholars, so they &c
aqusntity Of red pepper and set fire to
In such a way that the fumes spread. int
the Sunday school room and the innocen
little children were prostrated in q fe'
minutes some of them were made So /
that 1t IL thought they will die. Whi
ought to be done to men who will comm
deed Of that kindf They thought it wa
very funny, but il the Law should get
grip on the whole party and send them ,
Jail for six months or q, they would L
doubt be convinced that there wasn't
particle Of tun iu It.