Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1895-07-18

When q man really loves his neigh
Dor ss himself it generally turns out that
the neighbor is pretty girl.
The recent rains have greatly sd-
vanced vegetation. and the farmer, as
well as everybody else, reioices.
The whangee cane is popular.
Blackberry pie makes a man feel seedy.
The early settler is the man Who pays
his bills promptly.
The Trilby pipe is new. The bowl is
shaped like q womsn's foet.
The man who is perfectly satisfied
with himself is usually very easily pleased.
Let us hope that the college grsds
ates will live up to the baccalaureate ser
mons.
lLe National Republican cry is PRO
lection for AmeIioau industries; good
money for all men,.
fn s''H' qIrstlun appears t" have
been inYented for the purpose of sssie,-
ing Democrats to become Republicans.
The Rev Sam Jones is for 8 single
gold standard. The hon. Driuk Bolts,
however, Is q staunch bimetsllist, so the
question is still National issue.
An Indian named "Msn-Affaid- Of
Nothing" married q white woman in
Montana recently, and in one week after
his wedding he applied to his tribe to
have his nsme changed.
The man who has the gibbest tongue
isn't always the man who knows the most.
The snake editor of the Oil City
Derrick told story the other day, de-
scribing how @ man reached his arm down
into a crevice among some rocks after
lost crowbar, and "felt the warm BODY of
snake touch his fingers" grabbed it,
drew it out, and found he was holding
coppsrhead by the neck. How the snake
ever got warmed up is mystery. In
every part OF the world, except Oil City,
snakes are as cold as slams.
The Geogia Watermelon is again in
our midst.
1t has been sptly said that the art Of
conversation consists as much in lis-
tening politely as in talking sgreeably.
The indemnity which China is to pay
Japan, under the treaty of peace, is
equivalent to 2ss, 800, 900 silver dollars.
1t will be paid in silver yen.
The whole number of persons en-
ployed in the civil service of the United
States is about 200, 900, and of these about
one forth are class fled under civil service
rules.
in the event of Q wreck at sea Instinct
in some marvellous way seems to warn
animals of their peril. The confusion
among the crew and passengers spreads
like wildfre to the live stock, and even
the cats come screaming on deck evident
ly fully conscious that their lives are in
jeopardy.
1t is easy to see why lawyers are so
abundant in politics. The professor start
ed in at the signing of the Declaration of
Independence, and have stayed ever since
More than half the signers were lawyers
Mrs. Catherine 0Lesry, owner of the
fractions COW which, in the barn in the
rear of No. 1877 DeKoven street, on q me-
morable night in October 1871, kicked
over lamp and started blaze which
cost Chicago $3.50. 900, 900, died last week
of pneumonia. She received the last
sacrament and passed a way peacefully.
She has always been very averse to say
ing nything concerning the fire.
"A comparatively short time ago wheat
was selling per bushel at about the intran'
sic value of the silver dollar, q little over
fifty cents. and the free coinage peo-
pie were pointing triumphsntly to the
fact as a demonstration of the concurrent
decline of the two products. But to-day
wheat ia 80 cents q bushel, and silver is
worth no more than it was when wheat
was selling at SIS cents.
1T has been discovered that Birming-
ham. England, metal manufacturers have
been making idols to be worshipped by
the heather in India.
Copper wires are used for Mexican
telegraph lines, so that they will hold the
weight of the birds and monkeys which
crowd them for roosting purposes at night.
AT the moment little girl in Brook
lyn public school was reciting piece de-
scrlbirg the fury of storm, lightning
struck and killed her father a few blocks
away.
The great Pennsylvania rallroad will
soon have four separate and distinct tracks
from Philadelphia to Pittsburg.
four tracks the Pennsylvania will have no
superior If any eoual. in the world.