Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1896-12-03
OCAL AND GENERAL
We have a curfsw ordinance

WAL AND GENERAL
We have q curfsw ordinance
A new color is called profanity blue.
1t is very deep.
Strange as it may seem, the rares
works OF art are generally well done.
Washing the streets was q splendid
idea. Who thought of it frstf
That "Idyl of Mercer" on our fourtf
page ia interesting.
-Dixmo1t hospital is said to be danger
o1sly overcrowded.
-Kittanning is expert encing an spi
demic of diptheris.
-Sunday-scbools are beginning to take
into consideration the annual Christmas
festivities.
An exchange. in noting the industrial
revival. ssys that even this years eide
has got 10 working.
Tho heaters of .he pew school build.
ing have not been doing their full duty
lately.
The "grest northwest is showed in
Two trains met in a blizzard the other day
and one snow -shovelmsn was killed.
Now that the foot ball season is ended
the players might keep in training BY as.
sisting their msmss and sisters to shop.
Farmers Institutes will be held at West
Sun5ury, Dec. Is and 10, and at Saxon.
burg, Dec. q and %.
Tine woman who can eat when she ID
in trouble is much better off than the man
who drinks under the same circumstances.
When man disappears, reople won
der whether he ran away with a woman
or from one. It's generally both
There are times when the strong
minded women feel that they would like
to be cuddled Just as though they were
babies.
"A head of hair resembling q corn
shock does not necessarily make foot
ball player, but is generally an indication
of a superior thickness of skull.
Another CARLOAD of Davis sewing
machines was received by W. B. McCsnd-
less, last week. This was his fourth car
load for this year.
The young man who is anxious to Icy
the world at the feet of the girl he sdores,
three months after he marries her isn't
even willing to lay the carpet.
Road skates are the latest. They are
something like roller skates, but have
little pneumatic tired wheels and ball
besri Dgr.
A sign in grocery in Eastern Penn
sylvanis reads: "The man who trusts 10
ont" That statement may be true in q
double sense.
Old Goldr0x-Whatl You marry my
dsughterf Neveri Go, sir. There is the
door. Suitor [fscetiously l-Ah, yes.
That lets m out.
-"The man who insists that it's vulgar
TO wear diamonds" says the Philosopher,
"is usually troubled with involuntary re-
fnsment."
-"Backus and Pam have started q -four
mill in Delaware. They are evidently
not discouraged by the knowledge that
"the mills OF the gods grind slowly"
Fl. N. Cole, of Portland, Ore. is in this
city introducing Dix mucilage and cement
In solid form, an article that should be
found in every business no use in the city.
An exchange tells of man who fix.
ures 1t ont that not only has gold demon
etized silver, but electricity has dehorseti-
sed the horse and incubstors have dehstch.
etized the hen.
The Leighner brothers, formerly oil
Centerville have opened Meat Market on
z. Jefferson St., next door to the Lowry
House, and keep on hands at all times all
kinds Of dressed meats and poultry.
The P. r. X. Go. intends building 9
new and grand station for Pittsburg. The
business done at that station Is immense;
about 40 trains Of an average of ten cars
each arrive anu depart during one hour
every evening.
Butler needs q public hospital; and
the wsmen who are taking an interest In
tho matter will publish report Of theiI
organization and progress in next weeks
papers so that the public may fully under
stand the matter.
The man Of large family now behold
the shop windows with fear and trembling
There is suggestion of the approaching
holidays in all Of them. And all the mem
bers Of the household are beginning +
save for Christmas or thinking of what b
buy.
"A woman has invented what she call
"snore divorter." 1t Is composed Of 1
hood s1d q flexible pipe. When he
hood is lowered over his head and th,
snore is conducted into the cellar. Th or
hasn't been rat seen in the house since
the diverter was sed.
AS 1t is nearing the time when tn
bike must be PIT way for the winter.
hint on the care OF the machines Is season
able. The bicycle should be thorough.
cleaned and then inverted, so as to rest O
the handle bar and saddle. Time soone
or later debates the tire and the weigh
OF the machine causes the tire to doubl
up on the sides, which is anything but ben
e6cial to them.
Sometimes in chnrch a crying infsr
breaka up the d:scourse and turns people
hesds in the direction of its ructions. /
such cases. If Providence doesn't interven
iu behalf Of hungry and perishing soul
We commend Josh Billings prescription fc
getting rid of a house fly. viz: Get th
fy's attention diverted to some other objee
and then quietly slip out Of the room.
AT the meeting Of Council Tuasda
evening all the borough policeman wer
discharged except Fred Glace; the aho,
street between Miffiin and North, betwee
the Grace Lutheran and Reformed churchs
was named Church street; several eide
walk and sewer matters we're referred I
the proper committees with power TO 40