Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1896-12-24

Jul i-iSui anco Hens are distributing nandr
sOmecalendars.
1t showed Tuesday, and all creation
Tin this section) went sleighing that eye
ning.
The Republican primary for 1.-THE bor-
ough has been fixed 70 Saturday, JAM,
23d. 1897, / to z, p. IN. The election will
be on Tuesday Feb, 10Th.
Twelve yea-s have passed since
Phillips struck the first big well on Thorn
Greek, and now we are having second
edition Of the Thorn Creek excitement.
-Psps's Jowelry and toy show windows
are always attractive, but just at present
they are particularly handsome and attrac-
tive. Stop and look at them,
The girl who has specially nice
young maa on tap always TO help her put
her big sleeves into her coat is sorry that
fashion DEGREES in favor of small ones.
Many school boys are observed smok.
ing cigarettes. II they were well ac-
quainted with one of their branches
physiology-likely they would stop.
Before girl gets married she never
thinks man has such thing as a stom-
sch. After she's been married a while
she wonders if he's got any thing else.
Some Pittsburgers lately sent TO
famnua =
secured ten Angoras, which arrived last
week. They cost $40, end weigh IS
pounds, each.
"A down town young man is rejoicing
because his girl is one of those nice crea-
trres who is satisfied whether she gets
little or much i'll the way of Christmas
present.
In this latitude the days are now the
shortest, being about 0 hours and Is min
utes. In London the days length is now
only hours and 40 minutes and in St.
Petersburg hours and 50 minutes
-Arthurs, Dunn d Co, OF Euclid had five
men employed Tuesday to kill and clean
turkeys and chickens for the Pittsburg
market They intended to kill about four
hundred.
The Engineers were surveying at Eu-
cid, Monday. The cut just above the sea
tion is tc be deepened 80 feet at the sum-
init; the track at the station is to be low
cred 10 feet, and the some height taken off
the trestle.
A special from Slipperyrock Center
ville) dated Monday and read as follows:
"The Shpperyrock postofice has been
changed from fourth to third class Of
fce. The present postmaster, A. j.. Bard
has been appointed postmaster for four
years, commencing Janu airy /, 1897. at a
salary OF $1,000 per year. This has caused
quite disappointment to some of the
local candidates.
No prettier scene has ever been placed
on the stage ot our Opera House than
that made by the hundred kids in white
dresses last Thursday and Friday nights;
and the ads stimulated the inventive
genius of our merchants, who presented
some features that were very amusing.
The FIRST Ward Hose Co. paid The
Boston Symphony Orchestra $500, for their
two concerts in the Opera House here last
Saturday, and the other expenses of the
concerts amounted to ab out $50; but as
the house was crowded for both, their re-
ceipts were upwards of 5000, and the com
pany is about $3.50 ahead. The enter
tainments were all that could have been
desired. Everybody was delighted.
From Argentina co mes news Of the
passage of q remarkable law, by the en-
forcement of which the statesman of that
the course of a very few years to crowd
its plains end mountains with inhabitants.
One clause of this enactment reads: "0n
and after January l, 1897 every unmarried
male citizen OF Argentina who is not less
than 20. or more than so years of age shall
on the first day of each month, pay tax,
the amount to be determined by the mu
nicipal authorities" This is certainly
going long ways, but the South Ameri-
can legislature went still further and
Iounl led out their law with another clause,
which reads: "a celibaie OF either sex
wh0shall without legitimate motive, re.
ject tho addresses OF him or her who may
aspire to bis or her hand, and who con-
iinnes contumacously unm arred, shall
p,y 500 piastres for the benefit Of the per
son, man or woman, who has been refus
el." Perhaps this scheme will work al
its inventors hope, but the chances ar
that before January | arrives Argen tina
will have lost by emigration, every TN
married person now living in the country
That second provision would inspire ter
ror even in the late Mr. Holmes.
Again, Old Winter comes with silent. snoy
clad feet,
To sit the king Of cloud and storm in hi
accustomed seat.
We know him by unerring signs, whicl
none misundersta
The holly berry on his brow, the ivy in bi
hand.
Strange that his breath, which brings [
flowers a deadly blight,
Never fails TO foster in the heart fres
blossoms Of delight.
Which bi DIS US send 10 those We love net
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