Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1896-04-30
THE CITIZEN.

1t is a subject of newspaper comment
in Southern California that cents are be-
ginning to be used there in the stores
and commercial transactions generally.
It is ony few years since any coin small
er than a nickel was a great rarity any
where west of the Missouri. If the price
of any thing figured out two cents the odd
cents were deducted, if three or four
cents, the purchaser paid the nickel. =
as understood it, doctor, il I be
lieve I'm well, I'll be well. Is that the
idea?"
tits"
''Then, if you believe you're paid, I
suppose you'll be paid.
'.Not necessarily"
! ''But why shouldn't faith work as well
/ in one case as in the other?"
''Why, you see, there is considerable
difference between having faith in the
Almighty aud having faith in you
Uncle Abner touched BY gum!
but college hain't spoiled that boy for
work. Here he haint't been home six
hours an he's talkin' in his sleep about
''staclSin chips"
"A mysterious bill has been introduc-
ed in the New York Legislature 10 secure
100 acres III Central park, New York for
a permanent worlds fair. II is a stupen-
dous scheme
| A white coon that hasn't dark hair
on its body is owned at Weiser, Idaho,
and is a kind of town pet. 1t has dis
tinguished itself by whipping all the dogs
in the neighborhood, and is sure death
to cats that stray into its vicinity. It
spends most of its time chained to the
! sidewalk outside its owners store.
In China, divorces are allowed in all
cases of criminality, mutual dislike,
jealousy, incompatibility of tempera-
ment, or too much loquacity on the part
of the wife Among the tartars, if the
wife is ill-treated, she complains to the
magistrate, who, attended by the princi-
pal people, accompanies her to the house,
and pronounces divorce.
-Gregson-Why are you following
that young man at the plow with horse
whip?
Farmer eyson-Stranger, that's my
son. He KEN hum frum college with
his hair parted in tn middle an a srnok-
in cigarette. They sent me whoppin'
big bill an said he'd bin a-sowin' of his
wild oats I'm maxim him SOW sum
tame ones now, an, b'guIn, eff he starts t
run I'll whop him.
Teacher with reading class. Boy
reading: And as she sailed down the
river"
Teacher ''Why are ships called She?
Boy, preco ciously alive to the respons-
Utilities of his sex; Because they need
men to manage them"
James Keene is going back to Cali
fornia to try his luck again in gold min
ing. Keene's life has been remarkable
one. He was poor laborer about the
mines, and in some way he got in on the
Comstock lode with Crocker. He left
the Pacific coast with $40, o,oco, 900, which
he lost on wheat; made and lost another
fortune in the same way; and made an
other on the cordage trust that wrecked
SO many others.
Lots in good places along the beach,
100 feet deep, at Atlantic City are worth
81 900 foot front, and on the business
streets in the heart of the city at least
half as much.
Two United States prisoners were put
i'll the Norton county, Kansas, jail last
week Within three hours they had tax
ell the prison clock apart and made saws
of the springs and were working their
way through the steel bars when the
Sheriff dropped in on them.
Mark Twain's tobacco account must
be large one, for he consumes over 5,
600 cigars year. He is said to allow
himself 800 cigars month.
1t is reported from France that the
fresh juice of the poppy plant applied to
recent bee stings gives immediate relief
and prevents inflammation.
"A woman turned around i'll a New
York theatre the other night and said to
the man behind her, IF my hat is i'll the
way, will takeit off, He was so sur
prised that he protested that he was quite
comfortable. So she kept it on, and
though he did not see any of the perform
ance in consequence, he was perfectly
happy because of the novelty of the ex-
perience And that's where he made
sad mistake.
AT Larnie, Wyo., William Akerson,
convicted of perjury in connection with
an attempt to collect bounty for dogs
hides to which he sewed the paws Of
wolves was sentenced to two years i'm
prisonment.
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