Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1895-08-01


changes in their ads. should notify US OF
their intention to do so, not later than
Monday morning.
Administrators and Executors OF estates
can secure their receipt books ct the UT
IzEE office
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Excursion to Niagara, next Thursday.
There are excursions and excursions.
As rule mans hair turns grey FIVE
years sooner than woman's.
p. H. C. picnic at Rock Point, next
Monday.
-Seanor d Mace shipped two car loads
of fresh cows to Bucks Co., Monday.
An inch advertisement in q news
paper is worth a mile of daubing on a
fence.
He has q magnetism about him that
moves thousands the trolley car mo-
tormsn.
The railroads say that the touris tbusi-
ness IT'S GUNNER is much better than
yea .k".
-Glance over those five laws we print
tbis rk You may find something of
int,r II 10 you.
Wool has advanced in the markets to
20 aud 90 cents for Pennsylvania and
Ohio clips.
= The school book agent ls making it
pleasant ter members of school boards
These dull days.
When u fellow gets little errstic, it
is the proper thing to say now that his
trolle, il fl.
Some people seem easily to forget
that it is utrary to borough law to
throw garbage on the streets.
On Sunday last John Reed disposed of
over eight. hundred papers in Butler snd
sent seventy some over to Millerstown.
The Council is having the crossings
on Miflin street taken up preparatory TO
the paving of the street; and saving them
for use on the other streets.
Our grocers are paying Is for butter,
IL tor eggs, go for potatoes, 20 tor cooking
apples, cents pound for cabbage, IS for
peas and Is a dozen for cucumbers.
THE man who excuses himself from
church on the plea that his washing has
not come" says the salvation seeker,
"will be glad to dispense with his linen in
the other world"
The Chemical Works were bid in by
Frank Anderson, Monday at, $1,000. The
sale includes nine acres OF ground, the
buildings and an immense lot of material,
that cost the best part OF $100, 900, to put
there.
The barn of James Perry, in Cherry
Twp, was consumed by fire last Friday
afternoon All his wheat and rye, and
four tons of hay was burned. No insur
ance.
This ls indeed a very rapid age.
Notwithstanding that We have the trolley
cars and cigarettes there are some persons
who are SO blamed impatient that they
20 off and commit suicide.
AN exchange whose editor probably
knows how it is himself very properly
suggests: II you are looking for man who
needs your prayerful attention to keep him
out Of mischief, just take peep into the
mirror every morning before going down
town. You can't watch that fellow too
closely.
-0vercoats and straw hats were q
strange combination yesterday. 1t was a
cool day for hsying and ii must have snow
ed somewhere, not thousand miles away.
Ten years ago the month of July was very
cool, and men went to the hay fields with
their overcoats on.
When President Cleveland described
his married life as lone grand, sweet
song" there were no babies in his house.
There is more than one song now, and
when one of them starts in the dead of
night il is apt to be neither grand nor
sweet.-EI.
A rival to "hokey pokey" has been in
vented, according to an exch ange 1t is
snowfall made of a lump of shaved ice,
sweetened with sugar and delicately
faYored. 1t is described as most seduc-
tive and as scheme for entrspping the
snI boys pennies it is said to bea
hokey pokey and not half try. The snow
ball is manufactured on the spot where it
Is sold, and the originator has already
rcaped small fortune.
1t is announced that the Supreme
Court of this State has render a decision
to the effect that a property owner who
has been notified to repair q defective
sidewalk can be held responsible for any
injury that may befall q pedestrian by
reason Of his neglect. This being SO,
damages may be collected of said owners
when anybody brings suit to recover for
broken limbs or other injuries. Some
sidewalks are veritable mantraps, always
lying in wait for a victim.
There is rem arkable story in con-
nection with the late Myron II. Cole, the
Toledo, o. horseman. Two days before
his death he handed a manuscript to the
city editor of a Toledo paper. 1t proved
to be the obituary of Cole. His friend re-
marked that he was good for thirty years
yet. Cole rejoined that thirty ho1rs was
nearer the figure. The following Monday
Coles death at the Toledo hospital was re
ported. He had died from the shock of
an operation, and his obituary was pub
lished just as he had written it.
New Castle ladies seem to be greatly
annoyed by "Peeping Toms" who hang
around dwellings about bed time in the
hope of getting sight Of some beauty as
she prepares for bed. Several ladies' ac-
cording to to the News, have bought re-
volvers and threaten to shoot. The
Advance Argus suggests that better
plan would be to pull down the blinds. 1t
remainds one of the story of the Dutch
man who complained to o magistrate