Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1898-04-21

Barn Building.
Administrator Notice, estate of Jno.
p. Roll.
Administrators and Executors OF estates
can secure their receipt books at the ClIl
zen Office. and persons making public sales
their note books.
LOCAL AND GENERAL,
When freedom from her mountain
height
Unfurled her standard to the air,
She slew the eagle bird of fight
And put the dove of concord there.
She mingled with our liberty
The red tape of diplomacy,
And stripped our ruler of the right
To pitch right in with all his might
And say to any foreign power,
We'll throttle you within an hour.
And once it therefore comes to pass
That ere this nation goes to war,
1t has to talk and blow, alas.
For something like six months before
Purxsut1wney Spirit.
Joshua Simpkins.
Last month for oysters.
Tomorrow night, Joshua Simpkins,
Where, where are those early gar
dens?
Have you got fixed up in ynar new
homer
Mcrch ard April must have swap
p' L cs.
Irk Theatre, Friday. Joshua
u.s."
Warren, Ohio, is the joke going
t. -ah the telephone wires.
Down in the valley the peach,
cherry. and pear trees are in blossom.
All trees have trunks yet they never
travel-but they will leave pretty soon
Woman is illogical-she always
takes the cork out of the bottle by push
Ing in
Two stray horses pastured on the
square in front of the Court House, Sun
day night
A. NJ Sarver is remodeling his
house on N. Main st. F. w. Ekas has
the contract.
Somebody remarks that the chances
are that nell will smell of garlic for
the next few years
The new gas-stove factory is to be
33x7O feet, and three stories high. 1t
is going up
Man was made to mourn, but he
always thinks he can get out of it by
marrying again.
Won. zen possess finer instincts than
men, partic 7llarly in the matter of locat-
ing bargain counters
A declaration Of war is not mat
ter to be settled by p ainting ones face
with red ochre and utteriDg whoop.
Those people who are sleeping on
their arms are liable to seriot 'siy impair
their circulation, if they keep II up
No matter how much we tisiihe
people, we can never see why Chey
should not feel kindly disposed toward
us.
Taking bath went 50 hard with
stranger in Butler, Tuesday, that he
tainted while in the tub and came near
drowning.
With some women, devotion to
mean husband is merely an obstinate
determination not to admit having
made mistake
Friday evening freight train on
the Bessmer was delayed two hours by
car becoming derailed at the southern
edge of town
There are some fat Butterflies who
live without eating any breakfast in
order to keep their weight down, but
their is one Butler county lady who
.ate but two meals day for six months
and gained thirty pounds during that
time
TOE CITIZEN has lately entered into
three new business or professional
houses IN Petrolia, viz:-Adam Heck
ler,s barbar' shop in the Postoffice build
ing; w. S. va +es' dental parlors and the
Central Hotel Ike, It by J. 5 Byers on
Main ot
Geo shaffner has al. odd, but hand
some, brick sidewalk from. "s ms piop
erty on Lookout Ave The pii1A 'i'
made in Nelsonville, Ohio, the, ua'e
corrugated top, ale very hard, to, 's
first premium at the Worlds / VI
make very pretty and very durable
walk, and can be put in place at Is cts.
square foot.
A Boston girl who has been trying
to find out why har bicycle often runs
into objects she tries to avoid thinks
she has solved the pro blem at last She
says: 1T is hypnotic influence of con-
centrated attention, rendering the
movements inco-ordinate, so that the
rider becomes the victim of perverted
refiexeS of purposeless effort and the
object subject of an optical delusion. "
That's it, it just jumbles a green girl
all up.
Disease wrought hayoc with the
United States troops III the only trop-
ical warfare in the experience of this
country that waged against the Sem
mole Indians, in Florida, from 1885 to
1912. Of the 7,400 soldiers engaged
during the seven years, 1850 died of
disease. From the present time of
year until autumn TIE climate of Cuba
is more fatal to Northern people than
the Everglades of Florida.
1t is singular fact that many
writers who have caught and reflected
the very spirit and life of countries and
places were never themselves in those
countries Thomas Moore, whose
Lallah Rookh" and Loves of the
Angels breathe the very air and spirit
OF the Orient, was never in the East
Stephen G. Foster, author of ''My Old
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