Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1895-10-31
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

LUUAL AND UENEn Hu'
"Smiley and the world "smiles" with you |
Which it does with joyful sound;
For there's few who will shrink from con- |
suming drink
When someone else pays for the roun
Halloween tonight.
The p. r. r. Co. will hereafter charge
for carrying bicycles.
A war song now popular in Japan Is
sung to the tune of TRAMP, Tramp, |
Tramp, the Boys are Marching
It's strange that joke should be hard
est to see through when it is the thinnest
-"TG ick that figures most in this
world" III The Philosopher, sis spelled
with an initial 'p"
The eatest difference petwesn the
pugilist aud the football player is that the
latter wears his hair long.
Corn busking has been dry work this
yer-not even drop of cider to wet 1t
With.
Butler has been losing ground lately
several tons of dust foated out to the
neigh Lboring hills ard valleys, last week.
This is the time of year the hornets
freeze at night, and thaw out during the
day.
Tie threatened rain of last Sunday |
afternoon, drove hundreds of promenaders
indoors.
You will observe. by an advertisement
printed in this paper, that there will be an
election, next Tuesday, a. m. to p. IN.
One after another of the saltwater and !
oil wells OF the field up the creek are being /
abandoned.
Road AL Heck's new locals in this pa
per. He has whole store full of every
thing.
w. j. Mates has sold his grocery on
Ziegler Ave. to Mr.. Adams, and has NOV
ed to the 9TH ward.
The roof of the new school-house on
Broad and Mifiin Sts, is being erec cted this
week The building will be very hand |
some one.
The birds have nearly all left for thei'
southern homes to spend the winter the /
sparrows being about the only ones left |
behind.
-Husking bees are ripe. but the scare |
ity of cider will take away one of the
main props, even though pumpkin pie tim
Der is plenty.
-This is the day of the sale at d. B. |
Douthett's place in Forward twp, below |
Brownsville. Mr.. Douthett and family in |
tend moving to Williamsburg.
-Storekeepers and other business men |
of the county intending to buy calendars
for 1896 are requested to look at our line |
Of samples before Purchasing.
They had been discussing the pronun-
citation of 'oleomargsrine, and finally |
agreed to leave it to the waiter. but he
hedged. "Sure," said he. "I have to pro-
nounce it "butter" or lose my job"
There's an awful hollowness in the |
that we noticed today illustrates what it |
terms "a smart costume for a young |
widow" and she looks as gay as a speckled |
circus horse.
Pleasure owes its greatest rest to an
ticipation. The promise of dollar fiddle
will keep school boy in happiness for a
year. The fun connected with its posses
SION will expire in an hour. Now what is
true Of schools boys is true with men. All
they differ in is the price of their fiddles.
Since last Friday the Pennsylvania
Railroad has refused to carry bicycles free
as baggage. They are now charged for
the as same excess baggage, except that
the minimum charge on excess baggage is
25 cents, while the minimum charge on
bicycles will be Is cents.
The Boys Brigade of the Y N. G. A.
and quite number Of our citizens went to
Erie, last Friday, on a special car. to at
tend the State Convention there. Next
day the boys took part in the parade; then
they visited the Michigan" and the old
TheJ did well, and had good time
"A Philadelphia Judge has decided that
o man who is attacked doesn't have to run
before the law will justify him in protect
ing himself. In this connection we would
suggest that the man ought not to run
after he has protected himself That makes
it look ne if he had done something wrong.
Recently the Scientific american print
ed photograph of mammoth potato
raised on the Pacific coast that weighed sc
pounds, the owner standing beside the
Jumbo tuber, both being nearly the same
size. Last week the same paper stated
that the whole thing was a gross fraud,
perpetrated by the photographer.
-Hiidebrand q Son will open their new
and well appointed meat market, at 228
Mitflin st, Saturday. They have their
room FINISHED in oak, with marble coun-
te.; and double refrigerator of the latest
and most improved model The place is
new all over new building, new refriger-
ator, new furnishings. and all on new
ctioOis luo HAS iHoNcu lUUO IDe
new house, but the firm will continue to
maintain the old market on Main st.
1t is currently whispered that Mrs
while cleaning house, asked her husband
to nail mp some II; he refused; she looked
n at him, told him his conduct was with.
out a l. then beat him with her " until
he saw -. He now lies in tose state,
and may soon be fit subject for disS A
man must be an his life in that way, and
put to his existence.
-Cor-espondents are sometimes rather
obscure in expressing their meaning. For
example, letter to one Of our exchanges
contains this item: "John Kuder is about
to build new hen house because someone
stole about seventy chickens from Elmer
McCurdy the other night" This might be
taken to mean that Kuder is building q
coop in which to put the stolen chickens.
The antitnrin traatmapt co., d;nb4k -.