Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1895-06-27
The BOTTLE Works will shut down for

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| thei. annual vacat ion, Satuarday.
Most OF the stores have agreed to
close at O'Clock, from July lst TO Sept ST.
Yesterday. the Standard was paying
s1.55 for oil.
A six year old boy, Of a philosophic
turn of mind, says he can't see any
| earthly use in being an angle.
| Its hard to tell whether the gum
| chewing girl is pretty or not. She never
keeps her face still long enough to ind
| out.
"A Boston man IN g crowd, after be-
lug stepped on half dozen times NUT
tered; blessed if amt regular Trll-
by. Everybody gets on to my feet"
Many of the dear girl graduates who
will soar to the empryean this week, and
showing themselves capable Of settling
the gravest ietellectual problems, will be
puzzled the week following TO know just
how much lard should be put in the bis
cult dough.
The Justice Of the Peace, elected last
Spring, under the new fee bill, are entitl-
ed to charge five dollars for marrying a
couple. The old Justices fee bill was
three dollars for the same service.
If there ia one thing more than an
other that is likely to drive dog mad it
il to muzzle him on a hot day. A dog
perspires through his tongue, and suffers
untold agony when compelled to keep his
mouth shut tor a prolonged period in hot
weather.
The P. d will haYe a new Schedule |
in effect Sunday June 30th. which gives |
Butler people the fastest lrain ever sched- |
uled between Butler and Allegheny, leav-
ing Butler at S:I5 A. NJ. and making the |
run to Allegheny in less than one hour |
and thirty minutes.
Butler has several enthusiastic bicy- |
clists, but they are mostly of the younger |
generation. In some OF our neighboring |
towns the craze catches all ages. Titus
Vlllc udc UlCl CtcL 10 O- gO1AO NAN |
and enjoys spin on wheel as much as |
the youngest, and Franklin points with |
pride to a man past 20 years who has been |
riding bicycle regularly for years.
A LAW known az the Harvey act was |
passed by the recent legislature with |
the object Of promoting the use OF broad |
tires on the. heavy wagons. 1t provides |
that th ose owning and using draft wagons
with tires not less than four inches IN
width for hauling loads of not less than p
900 pounds shall receive rebate OF one
fourth of their assessed highway tax, the
rebate not to exceed five days labor on the |
roads in any one year. This is only a
modest step in the maintenance OF good
roads, but never the-less one to be com.
mended.
For the benefit of various readers, says
the New York Sun. we reprint for the
forty seventh year The Sun cholera cure:
Take equal parts of
Tinctsre Of opium,
Tincture Of rhubarb,
Tincture of cayenne.
Spirits of camphor,
Essence Of peppermint.
Mix well together. Dose; Fifteen to
thirty drops in water: to be repeated in
fifteen or twenty minutes if necessary.
Some Of the youngsters in this bor-
ough whose legs are too short to ride
bicycle-(so their fathers tell them)-can
give the old wheelmen points, however
in handling a wheel. We have in mind a
lad who has half-dozen ways Of riding.
When he sits in the saddle he can reach
the pedals only when they come 20 their
highest points. but by jabbing first one
and then the other as they come around
to keep up good speed. Then he rides
astrad the frame in front Of the saddle,
and when he comes TO an incline perches
himself On the saddle and coasts with the
gravity Of professional He rides with
his body all on one side of the machine,
one foot on the pedal and the other in the
air. There are numerous other tricks he
is"up to, "And it is safe TO say that if boy
starts to ride to perdition on bicycle
he will be very likely to get there.
Tours too the North ria Pennsylvania
ROiIrOdd.
To provide the most attractive metho
Of spending a summer holiday, the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company has arranged
to run two delightful tours to the North.
The points included in the itinerary and
the country traversed abound in natures
beauties. Magnificent scenery begins
with the journey and ends only with its
ompletion.
The names of the places to be visited
are familiar TO all and suggestive Of
wonderland. No matter how much may
be expected, one cannot be disappointed in
Watkins Glen, Niagara Falls, Thousand
Islands, Quebec, Montreal, Au Sable
Chasm, Lakes Champlai1 and George,
Saratoga, or the Highlands Of the Hudson.
The dates fixed for the departures Of
these two tours are July 16 and August
20, and the round-trip rate of 800
from New York, Brooklyn, Newark,
Trenton, Philadelphia, Harrisburg, Balti-
NOR, and Washington will cover all
necessary expenses during the times
absent. A be autiful descriptive itinerary
can be produced from the tourist depart
Of the PennsylvanIs Railroad, 1l96 Broad
way. New York. or Room All, Broad