Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1895-06-20

ventured out in bloomers.
"A religious movsmsnt-Going to
church.
"There is ever o song somewhere, my
dear,
There is ever 9 something sings
Away;
There's the song of the lark when the
skies are clear,
And the song of the thrush when the
skies are grey,
The sunshine showers across the gram,
And the bluebird trills in the orchard
tree;
And in and out when the caves drip
rain,
| The swallows are twitting cesselessly.
| I'm 1887 there were Is electric roads
/ in the United States, operating about 100
| cars. There are now in this country not
| less than $50 electric railways, aggregst-
| ing 6, 900 miles of track and operating %,
| 900 cars.
| Between 800 and 400 persons are en-
ploy ed in making writing ink in the Unit
ed States, and their yearly wages amount
to between $500, 900 and s400, 900. About
the same number are employed in making
printing ink.
| 1t has been found on investigation,
that the cucumber has 9 temperature of
one degree below that of the surrounding
atmosphere, so that the proverbial "cool
as cucumber" would appear to be scien-
tiicslly correct.
Chasing trusnt schoolboys under the
compulsory Law. will teach the young idea
how to sooOt.
"A Maryland jury has decided that q
yourR woman is legally entitled to break
off her engagement with man who
"chews coffee to hide the scent OF liquor
on his BREATH" The jury is right Cloves
are cheap. They have 3 more agreeable
scent, and they are en- wriggle, as We say
in French circles.
Many who have felt badly in the early
summer have been reouperated by Hoods
Sarssparilla.
-Bobby-Ps, what does the pswnbrok-
er's sign of three balls meant
Pa-It means, Bobby, that it is two to
one that the man never redeems his prop
erty.
In 1890 our product of natural gas was
estimated at $50, ,15O, 900 cubic feet, dis
placing tor heat and illuminating purposes
at least 9,774. All tons Of coal
George Eliot's portrait represents her
as having q remarkably unprepossessing
face, with heavy nose and chin, and thick,
badly shaped lips. She would be pro-
nounced positively ugly.
The Pennsylvania anthracite mines
have been worked without cessation sirce
1920, the output having continually in
creased until it reached, in 1891. the ag-
gregate of As, 236, ,992 long tons.
Among the Arabs a practice from time
immemorial has prevailed Of churning by
placing milk in leather skins, which are
shaken or beaten until the butter comes.
A bag of milk ia tied to short rope, the
other end of which is fastened to saddle,
and the horse made to trot.
While the irost did great damage last
month, the result is not so bad as first re-
ported, particularly on wheat. Good author
tiles on the lake shore grape crop say
that an 80 per cent yield may be looked
for in the fall.
1t has recently been discovered tha
i. the first balloon sleeves were worn by mer
some thirty-fve years ago. 1t was con
sidersd the proper thing then to have th'
coat made with very large sleeves, which
while not quite so pronounced IS the pres
ent monstrosities affected by the fair sex
were tbs undoubted protstypes of the
prevailing mode. This relieves the ladie
of very great responsibility.
After ali the talk there isn't much diff
ference between the woman of the future
and the woman with past.
Pm sure the girl I'm going to marrl
, will make q good wifef" "Whyf" "Be
, oause sde isn't interested in cooking"
The new Chicago city directory esti
mate the city's population at l,695,OuO
There's great crop of June brides
Bread is made of wood. Sometimes
we have been of the opinion that lead wa
one of the ingredients. In Berlin, Their
is a gre ut bakery where two hundred
} weight of wood bread is turned out everJ
3 day for popular consumption. The breat
l is made out of sawdust and rye flour
three iourths sawdust. A chemical pro
cess takes away the texture and taste o
the sawdust, and hberstes the ssccharin'
and nutritive elements; and, with little
rye -four, it makes nutritious bread, which
8 sold at Is. Cd. per hundred weight.
A clergyman who recently married
young couple was handed the customary
, envelope. When he opened 1t he ws'
surprised to find merely slip of paper on
which was written: eve desire your pray
, ers for our prosperity"
"A young colored pastor named Green
! Leaf Lee, while preaching at Double
Springs, Ala, on Sunday, went into de-
scription of death and hell. While depict
ing the regulation tortures of the latter he
quoted the words, There shall be weeping
and gnashing of teeth, /" and then fell to thu
floor, dead. The strain on bis blood ves-
: sells had been too great, and one of them
had burst. The man who han dies such
subjects in hot weather needs to have 6
sound circulatory system.
A Cochranton youth who remarked
that Brooklyn was just under New York.
was corrected by his mother, who told
him that he should.ssy Brooklyn was along
! side of New York. "Umph," replied th'
| boy, guess you don't know much about
base ball"
Well inform ed horsemen predict tina
the market for horses, which is now i'm
proving, will insure better prices thar
have prevailed for several years. Horse
raising has been partially discontinued by
farmers on arcount Of the prevailing low
low prices, and the old plugs have been
disposed of, 30 that the horses no W in th'
hands of the owners are of much better
: class than heretofore. AS it takes three
or four years for horse to fully develop
it will be some years before the salable
stock will be of sufficient number to dowI
the markets. Horse breeding is said t.