Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1897-07-22

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Gently gave hundred thousand dollars
for geological garden for that city and
it is now being put in condition. Con
/ tracts have been let for a good deal of
the work, but every contractor is expect
| ed to donate one or more animals for the
zoo, and generally when the matter is
put before him he acquiesces and prom
| ises. One man is to furnish couple of
| buffalos; another man is TO give a coup
| lie of bears third donates an elephant;
fourth is to provide a tiger; a fifth
supplies lion, and so on, so that when
the zoo is ready for the animals the ami
mails will be ready for the zoo Senator
| William Finn is Senator Magee's side
partner on pretty much everything in
the smoky city and the TO are known as
Damon and Phythias Where you find
one, you find the other, and they are
| the two best known men in Pittsburg
Recently Mr.. Finn, who is a contractor
| bid for same work on the new zoo, and
when Mr.. Magee heard of it he said:
William, l understand you have bid
for some work on the new zoo?' Yes, 5"
said Mr.. Finn, 4 have. DO you
know what you will have 10 give if you
get the contract?" No" You will
have to give fifty monkeys to amuse the
children" " All right, said Mr. Finn,
''whero do l get the monkeys?" In
New, York. Very we'll" said Mr.
Finn, ''you order the monks and send
the bill to me. 3" As Mr. Finn has secur-
ed the contract, the little folks of Pitts
burg will have the pleasure of playing
with Mr.. Films fifty monkeys
hoCC'S FILLS cure Liver Ills, Rii-
Iousress, indigestion, Headache.
Easy to take, easy to operate. 25c.
1t is a great luxury to feel good
natured when those around you are
cross.
a woman should be as sweet to her
husband as a girl dry goods clerk is to a
man customer.
When woman wants to get out of
housekeeping, she pretends to have ner-
vous prostration.
No girl has a right to wear a white
dress and blue sash in summer if her
mother does the ironing
Our idea of thoroughbred is a man
who has two pairs of good pants with
suspenders for each pair
A good many people call heaven their
home who never did enough good in
their lives to pay for weeks board.
The woman who wears such full
sleeves to her clothes that they dip in
the butter and jam, should elope to
some desert island with the man who
gets soup in his whiskers.
A Chicago paper tells of the mean
est man on record He is a hypnotist
and lives on the north side. Twice a
week he hypnotizes his wife, and she
runs lawn mower over the front yard
while believing that she is having a
bicycle spin.
There are ten pounds of glue in the
human body, hence this is supposed to
be the reason that so many people are
stuck on them selves.
ARMSTRONG; Little System Pills
fine t,11a Iyer Iil1--1SC
The hardware dealers are now selling
hay fork for 80 cents, that sold, when
first patented, about 90 years ago, for
$16
The editors of the Greenville Progress
and News are discussing Pathology
Just think of working the brain on such
a subject with the thermometer rang
ing in the nineties
A Beaver co unity judge has declared
the act unconstitutional which forbids
fishing on Sunday under penalty OF
S25 fine.
The Governor has signed the bill re-
| quiring borough and townships collec-
| tors to make monthly returns.
| The other day an Erie boat fishing
about 10 miles from Ashtabula, took
| eight tons of white fish at one haul of
| the nets.
Let no man be sorry he has done good
| because others have done evil. If
man has acted right, he has done well
though alone if wrong, the sanction of
| all mankind will not justify him.
An exchange suggests for hot wealth
er costume made of spun ice and
mosquito netting
] The general cut in the price of high
| grade bicycles give satisfaction to all
the ''bikers" except those who are still
making payments for 800 wheels on
the installment plan. As the Washing
ton Post puts it; The public will wei
come the cut so warmly that it will not
stop to ask any embarrassing questions
as to the profits it must have paid when
the same makes of wheel were 800,
American Institute Farmers
Club.
committee from this club report
the wines of Alfred Speer, of Passaic,
n j., the most reliable to be obtained,
and that his Oporto Grape makes a Port
Wine superior to any in the world. His
Claret and brandy have no superior.