Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1896-03-26
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pected to retire meekly.
Lent ends on april 9Th, and Easter
Sunday follows on April 9Th.
The ground hog has proved himself a
good weather prognosticator this time.
The Ground Hog is dancing with glee
over his brilliant success as q weather
prophet
The mercury was but four degrees
above zero, Tuesday morning. Rather
cold for the 9th of March.
After next Tuesday evening Butler
will be dry for at least three months, as
all retail licenses will expire thea.
There are some persons who are so
exalted in their ideas that they think them
selves aboYe the common people.
-"Let Us hope" says the Philosopher,
"that if we must have the new woman
she will know good cigar from bad one.
The New Castle Courant and Guar
diar have consolidated and will her eafter
appear under the name OF the New Castle
Courant- Guardian.
One of the bad features about politics
is the fact that it takes some men "a
mighty long time" to find out who they
are going to be for.
An editor seldom finds out the trials
he has to undergo and the misfortunes he
has to encounter until he has been ''in
harness" some time.
If there is one thing in the world more
sublime than srother, it is the confidence
with which candidate rushes to his fate
at the primary election.
A dude is admired by some OF the
Society" and is at discount with Others;
nevertheless, he is mothers joy and his
fathers empty pocket book.
When q professor Lot religion takes
more pleasure in going TO sociables and
and attending progressive" euchre par
ties, than be does in the religion OF Christ,
it is time for him, says Talmage, to take
back seat in church.
Butler will have good baseball club
this season. Already over $400 has
been subscribedr. l.. NJ, SmertE
was elected Chairman, c. e. Smith, Secre-
tary and J. s. Jack, Treasurer at q meet
ing held Monday evening
Quite number of Butler and Butler
county people are interested in the Mari
eta t0hio) Boiler Works, which has a
capital stock of $50, O0O 1t is an exten-
sion of the Hughes Bros. Boiler works of
Butler, J. w. Hughes is the general
manager.
Easter bonnets have made their ap-
pesrance in the Millenery windows, and
Easter candies in the Confectionery win
dows. Easter Sunday is supposed to be
the first Sunday after the first full moon
after the yernsl Equinox, but this year it
is set back week.
Ruth the Blind Girl Of Hampton"
was produced, for the benefit of Co. E.
Thursday and Friday evenings of last
week, by local talent assisted by Henry
Beck AMI his wife. The audiences were
not as large either evening as the MEM
bers of the company would have liked,
but the performances gave general salts
faction.
The Pittsburg, Shenango and Lake
Erie railroads car ferry steamer, Shenan-
go No. / which has been fast in the ice Is
miles off the Erie port.for the past five
weeks, has been liberated by a sister steamer
and towed to Connesut. The crew Of the
ice-bound vessel have been short of pro
visions and fuel for week or more.
A loyal exchange in the state says:
"Wten you talk about there being better
state than Pennsylvania, every potato
winks its eye, every cabbage shakes Its
head, every beet gets red in theface. every
onion gets stronger, every oat field is
shocked, the rye strokes its beard, the corn
pricks up its ears and every foot of the
gronnd kicks"
Little Willie-Papa, do the X rays
make people eross-eyedf
Paps-Jane, take that boy to bed; I'm
afraid he'll develope into humerist
Little Willie Yes, papa, have spots
all over me, and mamma says it ia the
humor coming out.
Willie lodged his fathers slipper as
nimbly as cat does bootjack.
DO you keep scrap bookf Perhaps
ninety out Of every one hundred of our
readers do not, but should. You can get
q book suitable for the purpose at small
expense. The book should be divided up
in sections and under the different head
ings mott ces of Deaths marriages, social
and historial events should be pasted and
in few years you would have book that
you would not part with under ordinary
circumstances.
An Englishmsn has invented new
mode for catching fish. He fastens a
small mirror at tie end of his line, near
his hook. A fish approaching, sees his
reflection in the glass, and thinking it is
another fish which is going to seze the
bait, grabs it himself, when otherwise he
might not bite. The mirrCw is double,
and reflects on both sides. Our experience
leads us to believe that the invention is a
humbug, but it might succeed.
just at this time when there seems to
be quantity of counterfeit money in cir
eulation II will be good TO keep an eye
open for swindler who claims to be
treasury detective and to be looking for
bog1s coin. He asks the farmers and
storekeepers to submit their coin for his
inspection. He puts on the silver dollars
a chemical solution which turns them
black, declares them spurious and takes
them away with him. He also impress
sively warns his victims that they are lia-
BILE TO arrest for having counterfeit money
in their possession, aud cause them to keep
very quiet about the matter, thus helping
him along in his work of bnnco.
TIL bright woman who reads the ad-
vertisements is talking. And she ia not
talking through her bonnet, either. Hear
what she says: 81 study advertisements,
and know where and when and how to
purchase the household supplies. My hus-
band used to Ian yh at me- for readiny ad