Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1894-04-13
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Monday morning.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Colbert d Dale's business is growing
steadily, Notwithstanding the hard times.
They keep up to the times.
The most radical unbeliever in super-
stition is apt to ind that putting another
mans name to bank check is sure sign
of trouble.
Many men will have bad attacks Of
lumbago now that the time for house
cleaning In comirg on. Carpet shaking is
not compatible with lumbago.
The proposal of the School Board to
take the original grave yard Of the town
for school pu rposes has resurrected consid-
srsble local history.
Advertisers, as rule, know q good
thing whom they see 1t. Look 1t the ad'
vsrtising colu INNS of the CITIZEN, they
tell their own story Of success.
The Columbian postage stamps are al
most out, and areturn to the old system
may be expected in . short time, with
consequent economy of ickings.
If those who ought to save would save,
and they who ought to spend would spend,
the world would soon be going right al
least 1t would mend.
For good ha d-msde harness 60 to
John Kempers store, opposite Campbell d
Templeton's furniture store, s. Main St.
Butler, Pa.
A man 10 lika tree in that both may
bear good fruit; but unlike tree, he can
not be upright and "shady" at the same
time.
The laws of Pennsylvania provide that
any person found drunk in public place
may be arrested and fined two dollars; the
One 70 into the school fund.
Make your dwelling tasteful and at
trsctive, both within and without; the as
socistions of the homo in our early days
have . strong influence on the future life.
The snow of Wednesday seemed to
como from the East. At Harrisburg
nearly foot Of snow fell Tuesday and
Wednesday night.
An exchange says: Beware OF eating
orange peel, especially at this time of the
year. 1t is very poisonous and likely to
throw you into oonvulsions. Deaths have
resulted"
-"My husband has all the virtues but
ons," remarked the wife of struggling
young Kensipgton doctor. What
is that" asked her sympathetic friend.
Patients" sadly replied the young wife.
Thieves gained an entrance into Shaul
q Nasts clothing store last Sunday night
through one Of the rear windows, and stole
Ave silk-li1ed ovsrcosts, some suits and
other goods valued in all at about $500.
We are entering the age of alumni
mum; bicycles, msshinsry and ships will
BE- made Of 1t, and n win yet be used in
the erection Of houses. Aluminium and
electricity win be the important powers in
the future.
We arc under obligations to the Phil
dslphia Inquirer. for Part l ofits Century
War Book" now being offered its subscrib.
srs for Eve coupons and ten cents part.
The series will be complete in twenty
parts, and will be valuable collection of
war articles and war pictures.
Don't look on the street., or in stores
after night, for the boy who stands at the
head of his class in school, and who is de-
terminded to pass, for he is not there.
You will find him at home applying him.
calf to his studies.
1t is the greatest dslusion in the world
for boy to get the idea that his life is OF
no consequence and that the character Of
it will not be noticed. A manly, truthful
boy will shine like q star in any commu-
nifty.
Monday of this week was the anniver
sary Of the surrender of Gen. Lee to Gen
Grant, April 9th 1855. There was gre al
rejoicing in the Northern states at thai
time which continued until the assassination
of President Lincoln on the l4th.
The audiences that have Hocked Il
hesr Rev. Nathan, this week, have beer
remarkable for their numbers. The Operi
House has been crowded every evening
and tho MONDAY and afternoon meeting
have been well attended.
Eugene Ssndow. the strong man, ha
Published book in which he tells how he
= delicate and sickly boy, by proper phys
iesl training, made himself the muscula
prodigy Of the age, veritable Samson
Although weighing but $50 pounds. he car
lift 1,500 pounds with one hand. and il
harness raises the enormous weight O
$500 pounds.
Poetry is something people shonld b
very careful about writing. Now, here i
the Poet Of the Connoquenessing. 81
ground out column and half of the mos
ever read, and we put it in type; but Wed
nesdsy morning the snow, the beautifu
snow, made flakes of its appropriateness.
Fond MamEa-It seems to me, m
dear. that after the long talk you an
Nellie had during the evening you Nigh
have refrained from talking after you hs
sgone to bed. Fond Dsughter-Yes; BIZ
mamma, wa couldn't remember what W
had been talking about during tho evenin
and We were only talking about how funn
It was we couldn't remember what we ha
been talking about.
The Presbyterian Church OF this tow
seats 675 persons. On "Wednesday of th
week every seat was occupied. ss we
also two hundred chairs, and about on
hundred and fry persons were stsndin
making an audience of about 1000. near
al women, to hear Rev. Nathan's story
his conversion to Christianity. That mig
the Opera House was crowded with men
hear the same.
"A man named Osborne, while at wo
laying carpet in New York on the 10th
March, ran q carpet tack in his han
Some days afterwsrd his hand began
swell. blood poisoning set in, and he dl
on the 26th. We mention this sad fatal
pov. on the eve of the housecleaning 81