Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1895-10-17
A Remedy Against cas-

All persons who have lived IN house
which has become infested with tieas in
summer will know how these creatures In
habit the floor by preference, and how
they will jump upon the legs and ankles
o. every one who passes near them' Tax
ing advantage of this fact, some years ago,
when the lower floor of McGrOw Hall of
Cornell University was badly infested By
| feas, Which had come from animals tenn
porarily Kept there in confinement, Profes-
sor S. II. Gage invented the following in
| geniOus plan. He had the negro Janltor
| put on pair of rubber boots, and then
tied sheets of fly paper, with the sticky
side outward, around the legs OF the boots
The janitor was then told to patrol the
| lower floor for several hours a day. The
re suit was gratifying and rather surpris-
| ing. The sheets OF hypaper soon became
! black with feas and had TO be changed at
| intervals, but By this means the building
was almost completely rid of the pest,
with minimum of trouble to every one
except to the janitor.
-Roquefort cheese IS made OF sleeps
milk.
In some parts of the country there are
malicious persons who throw tacks IN the
roadway to annoy bicycle riders by per-
fLrating the pneumatic tires. To meet
this difficulty it Las been proposed to at
tach a magnet in front of the forward
wheel, with the object of picking up the
tacks as the machine rolls along.
Salt rheum with its intense itching,
hot skin, is cured by Hoods SarSaparlila.
What makes life dreary is want Of
motive.
-Gayety is often the reckless ripple
over despair.
To find fault is easy; to dc better may
be difficult.
From the errors of others a wise man
correctS his own.
Kindness is the golden ctain by which
society is bound.
All that is human must retrograde II
it do not advance.
Sell possession is another name for
self-forg etfulness.
Ignorance is less removed from the
truth than prejudice.
An Easy Cure for Drunkenness.
| Drunkenness. Morphine and Tobacco
may easily be cured by the use of Hills
Double Chloride Of Gold Tablets. No
effort is required of the patient and stimu-
lants may he taken as usual until
given up. Tablets may be given in tea or
coffee without the patients knowledge. a
cure guaranteed in every case. For sale
by all first class druggists, or will be sent
on receipt of $l;00. For full particulars
address The Ohio Chemical Works, Lima.
Ono.
God gives every bird its food, but he
does not throw it into the nest.
Man is nearsighted or the side VIII ere
he thinks it would pay to sin.
Obedience is not truly performed by
the body if the heart is dissatisfied.
ALL love has something Of blindness
in it, but the love for money especially.
Whether happiness may come or not,
one should try and prepare to do without
it.
We have not learned how to rest un-
til we have learned how to live one day
at time.
No matter how bright the pleasures
of 81 n may be, they are only pleasures Cor
| season
Riches do not halt so much exhilarate
us with their possession as they torment
us with their loss.
On the William Sharp farm, Taylor
county, KY, there was raised this season
stalk of corn pa feet long. 1t had four
teen ears of corn upon it, most of them
well developed. Where the tassel usu-
ally grows two good ears of corn We're
found.
- Ly Not Try the New and Better Wa,
or doing your shoppingi Instead c
| coming to ,he store, make the store come
To you. Yes, and the best and bigcss'
store in the country at that namely, kaa..
mann Brothers, Plttsburg. Drop Lhom
''osIal and you will get their spring and
summer Catalogue gratis, enabling You Il"
order by mail anything you may wish, an0
avin2 as much money as city people do