Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1897-02-18
LOCAL AND GENERAL,

Just tell them that you saw me, but
You didn't see me saw,
And that your steak and pie was very
good:
Just tell them that | saw the the wood,
but didn't seem to saw,
And tell them that you saw me see the
wood.
The election at Mars was held at
Jno McKenna's house
The latest slang phrase is: You're
not the only tin can in the goat.
Over in Hungary lately eighteen
women together decided that they were
tired of their husbands and so with the
aid of poison became widows
A ''Jim-Crow" is powerful ma
chine. If You don't believe it, go down
along the new railroad and watch them
bending rails with machine of that
name.
There is some talk of the Penn'a
Co, paralleling the Shenango road from
Butler to Stoneboro, Mercer Co., or the
Lake Shore, extending its Ashtabula
branch road from Stoneboro to Butler
and connecting with the West Penn
here
Five hundred men living within 80
miles of Pittsburg have made applica
tions for positions on the Pittsburg,
Bessemer & Lake Erie railroad, and are
now an1iously awaiting an answer
from the transportation officials The
company has already ordered fiat cars
for construction trains, and will soon
give orders for locomotives.
Divorces are becoming so frequent
that invitations reading something like
this are suggested:
Mr.. and Mrs Richard Roe
Request the honor of your presence at
the divorce of their daughter,
Mrs. John Roe Doe,
From the bonds of matrimony entered
into with
Mr.. John Poe Doe
On Thursday, February 25, at o'clock
p. m. r. s. Y. p.
"A lawsuit arose in university up
on the point whether the doctors in law
or the doctors in medicine should take
the precedence The Judge asked the
counsel whether it was usual
for the thief or the hangsman to
walk first at an execution. Being ans
wered that the thief always walks first
Then, said the Judge, 'let the doc
tors in law h ave precedence; and let the
doctors in In edicine be next in rank
The Scientific American prints this
cure for diphtheria: 'At the first in
dicGtions of diphtheria in the throat of |
child, make the room close, then take |
tin cup and pour into it an equal
quantity of tar and turpentine; then
hold the cup over fire so as to fill the |
room with fumes The patient ON in |
hailing the fumes will spit up the mem |
braneous matter and the diphtheria |!
will pass off, The fumes of the tar and |
turpentine loosen the film in the throat |
and afford relief
"A local board of the United States
Civil service commission will meet in
Pittsbu1g on Saturday. March 90 for
the purpose of examining persons
for the grades of clerks, deputy
collector, storekeeper, gauger, and
messenger in the Internal Revenue
Service Only citizens of the United
States who are twenty one years of age
need apply For information write to
j. B. Cox, Internal Revenue Office,
Pittsburg, Pa.
-Four students of the Butler Busi
ness College passed the final examina-
tion in the commercial department of
that institution last week and received
diplomas, These examinations embrace
Bookkeeping, Arithmetic, Commercial
Law, Spelling, Penmanship, Rapid Cal
culating, Business Forms and Customs
and Business Letter Writing and are
very severe The fortunate ones were
Della NJ. Allen, Parker, Pa, Hugh A.
Crummay, Bakerstown, Pa, Harold A.
Raisley, Glade Mills and Rex Williams
of Butler.
Two solid trains of S5 cars, loaded
with piling cut in Butler county, left
Shenango station for Conneaut harbor
the other day, The piles were of oak
and run from 20 to 40 feet in length
and as 40, 900 of them are needed for the
big pier that the p. b. & L. e. Co. is
building at Conneaut harbor, besides
several million feet of 3-inch oak plank
ing, the contract will make quite hole
in our oak resources, The pier will be
20 or 80 feet wide and over 1000 feet
long. The sides are being made of
several thicknesses of piling, and the
centre will be filed in with stone and
ground The cars will be run out up
on it, and the ore will be loaded upon
them directly from the steamers
The French and Belgian citizens of
the South side held masquerade ball
on Saturday evening which was n
pleasant, picturesque. and well manag
ed affair. Prizes were given to the
most attractive masqueraders Some
of the costumes were very pretty and
we have no doubt there was more real
pleasure and friendly feeling in ten
minutes of this ball than there was in
the whole of the sumptuous Bradley
and Martin affair of New York last
week. Several of Buffers society peo-
pie were present. The newspapers
were ably represented by the first re-
porter of one of our worthy contempo-
raries. 1t is now claimed he thinks the
French lassies are better dancers than
our own American girls.
The County Audit.