Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1895-06-13

sound money! Second dltto-Thats right
Mebbe we could hear it then.
Overheard at the Show-Thats 8
perfect dream of a bonnet. Yes, but III
bet it cost regular nightmare of a price.
A good motto for those who intend
going abroad is ''don't give up the ship.
You may have to give up everything else,
but hold on to that.
when a msu's clothes are too loose,
says the Philosopher, "there are two ways
of remedying the evil One is TO take
them back to the tailor. Another is to get
a new boarding house"
-Everyones duty lies first in the path
that leads to health. Hoods Sarsaparilla
is good leader.
Out of sight-the other twenty -one
letters.
The pop of the fre-cracker is already
heard.
1t takes chap with brass to propose
to girl with tin.
In old times no American Protestant
minister would have thought of wearing a
full beard. TIE furthest that any of them
went was muttonchop whiskers. A mu-
stache would have ended the clerical career
of any one of them. How customs ctangel
If a woman gets what she wants to
wear and man gets what he wants t) eat,
there's no reason why they shouldn't live
together and be happy.
DIR. Leslie Phillips, well known
scientist, warns the new woman against
wearing her hair short and says that the
cause of badness in man is due to the
iact that he cuts his hair.
1t is likely that Elizabeth Cady Stan
toms new Bible will show clearly tha
Adam picked the apple himself and tha
he sometimes saw snakes
The gay and festive wheelman has hi
faults, and they are many. But he is
factor in getting decent roads, for whicl
the inhabitants of these United State
should feel duely grateful.
When two or three silver producin!
States undertake to dictate the hnancia
policy of the country it seems to be a clea
case of the tail trying to wag the deg.
The small boy was playing cowboy
more to his own satisfaction than that O
his nervous father II am the Wild VOL
of Bitter Creek" he yelled. "And this
your night to howl" said the exasperate
parent, appearing with a strap. AM
Willie howled.
Gail Hamilton's witty tongue is re
Pickering Dodge, went to Germany, nativ
whom he asked for information, said
"Spreehen sic DeutSchP" Yes" answere
Mr.. Dodge, CHATS my name, but how il
thunder did you know itq"
"A fall of nearly 60 degrees in temper
ature would kill one-third OF the population
of the globe and cause intense suferin
among another third, but in New Englan
it is taken as a matter of course.
"A West Virginian, poor all his life, die,
from joy the other day over the striking o
pig oil we'll on his land. He had hi
heart set on the good things of this world
but who has right to, if not a man VIII,
has been all his days denied themG
Herman Schmidt, of Altoona, visited
his father III Germany recently, and tn
Trjbame says while he was eating his frs
meal under his fathers roof he was arrest
ed by German officer on the charge o
having deserted the army, ard to get ou
of trouble he had to pay 300 marks, equiv
alent to about $75. Although Mr.. Schmid
was only about Is or 10 years of age whe1
he came to America. and although he had
taken out his naturalization papers and hat
become an American citizen, the German
law is such that he cannot escape the fine
Any one who leaves Germany after they
have attained the age of Is years withou
having served the required time in tht
army, on ais return to his fatherland il
subject to fine and in some cases impris
onment.
A novel sight is witnessed by persons
visiting the Cochrans Mills gas field il
Armstrong Co. Crooke Creekd is sheet o
flames for almost a mile. The gas which
comes to the surface through crevices il
in the rocks has become ignited and the
water is covered with o sheet of flame.
About week ago an old man named
Witherow, in Bedford county, had violert
hiccoughs, and the doctors had despaire d
of his life. His mother-in-law procured {
gun and crept under his bed. When they
were alone she pulled the trigger, but she
has aimed the weapon upward. The pow
der burned the sick mans toes, and in
rage he sprang from the bed, and drag
ged the woman from beneath, gave her q
sound beating. In his anger Witherow
forgot all about his hiccoughs, and when
the doctors came expecting to see dying
man, he was dining and they bad only the
mother in-laws's bruises to look after.
The more man gets into Office the
more he wants to continue to sacrifice
himself on the altar ofpublic service-at a
liberal salary. The Kittanning Times says
that list of prospective candidates for
Office next year in Armstrong county shows
ten persons whose aggregate office holding
reaches total of forty-six and a half
years
George Wood, 20 years old, who re.
sides with John Morrison near Freeport.
has been for some years suffering with
cancer of the mouth aud throat Last
Thursday night he became frienzed with
pain and fired into his skull bullet that
lodged in his brain Next morning he did
not seem to he greatly affected by the shot,
and remarked that he had made a rather
poor job of it. He had written two letters
avowing that be would commit suicide.
The bullet cannot be probed for, and
Woods will de closely watched to prevent
a further attempt to kill himself.
-Pittsburg is to have another 15 story sky
scraper, just opposite the Carnegie, on
Fifth ave.