Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1898-12-08
LOCAL AND GENERAL,
Quite a Spell of Weather.

Quite spell of Weather"
Good skating on the water dams.
Wonder bags are the latest Xmas
novelties
-Snowdrifts twenty.feet deep up
about Cory.
The West Penn station has lately
been greatly improved.
Continual snow here and continual
rain in northern Georgia.
r. l.. Kirkpatrick, the jeweler, has
line of carefully selected Xmas pres
ents.
Pensioners can now have their
checks cashed at money order post
offices.
Evans City's water-plant has been
completed The town has twenty five
plugs and a pressure of 100-pds.
The goose-bone is unusually wide
open and very white this year-which
indicates early snow. deep snow and
snow OF long duration.
-Pape's store is always interesting
to both young and old at this season
and this year it is especially attractive.
You should stop in and see it.
There are some very pretty show
windows in Butler at present, and there
will be more of them next week. Buy
your Holiday presents in Butler.
The Pittsburg Dispatch refers to
the new State Capitol at Harrisburg as
looking more like brewery or cold
storage warehouse than capitol.
The Springdale Hose Co. is prepar-
ing to entertain great crowd with
great supper in the new Stein building
next Tuesday and Wednesday evenings.
As there will be great deal of elec-
tioneering done in the lobby of the
Court House during the next few
months, the County Commissioners
should furnish a few comfortable
benches
People in general seem to have
more respect for property than for
persons Let two men of equal virtues
and intellectual attainments die, one
rich and the other poor. The rich man
will have by far the larger funeral.
One of the Pennsylvania editors
emphasizes an appeal for money due
him af follows: Having remembered
the Maine without difficulty. will you
please try and remember that the year
before lasts subscription is about due.
Say this real fast: Suppose six sea
sick sisters seek six sickles, sicking six
sick dogs on six sickly cats, and like
sixty the six sickly cats seek slick
sycamore, shall the six sickly cats and
the six seasick sisters seem sicker?
George Washington, in writing to
a youthful friend, said: The company
in which you will improve most will be
the least expensive to you" George
was right. There is nothing so expen-
sive as the companionship of red-eyed
debauchery.
"A Butler woman has appeared in a
dress worn by her husbands first wife,
and the-indignant neighbors have start
ed the story she goes out to the GENE
terry and dances on the first wifes
grave.-Kittanning Press.
Where is she att
About thirty carloads of limestone
are being taken out of the Winfield
twp. quarries daily. 1t is sent to the
Pittsburg iron and soda works and also
used for ballast Two large crushers
are being used. The solid limestone
stone vein is 16 feet thick, overlaid by
about four feet of loose shell limestone.
Deer are reported to be unusually
plentiful in the mountain counties of
Pennsylvania. Bears are numerous
this season in Pike county and very de-
structive. In one locality they have
killed dozen young cattle, and farm
ers in one township alone have lost
about 100 sheep and lambs. A boy
named Clark, aged 10 years, has shot
three bears within a month.
Rabbit fur is now an important
commercial article. 1t is known to the
trade as electric seal. and when dyed so
closely resembles the genuine article
that only expert eyes detect the differ
ence. 1t is said that $500, 900 is invest
ed in rabbit culture in England.
There's no. danger of exhausting the
rabbit crop in the way that has been
done with the fur seals.
"A foreigner studying the English
language would find some perplexities
in learning the meaning of the word
fast. Fast means to abstain from
food, to eat little or nothing; but a
fast young man is one who eats and
drinks to excess. Fast means to be
stuck-frmly fixed to something, so as
to be unmovable. 1t also means to go
swiftly, to move rapidly In the sent
ence Fast by the throne obsequious
Fame resides" the word fast means
near to or close beside.
The Fadettes Ladies Orchestra ap-
peared in the Park Theatre Monday
evening as the second number of the Y,
NJ G. AS. Star Course. The large au-
dience was greatly pleased with their
music. The John Thomas Concert Co /,
the next number, will appear Friday
evening, Dec. 23 Mr. Thomas is a
humorous speaker of national reputa-
ton. The remainder of his company
are Mrs Thomas, his wife, violin yirtu-
oso. Miss Goullaud. soprano, and AL
bert Hopkins, pianist
--125.0 900 tons of pig-iron changed
hands in Pittsburg last Saturday at 80
ton. 1t is understood that the Car
negie Steel company, limited, has Sc
cured orders for over 100000 tons of
steel rails, at prices less than $1S ton,
during the past two weeks 1t is esti-
mated that the demands for steel rails
for next year will run close to 2, 900, 900
tons, The iron men say that it looks
poxy "a if tho roll ,pi1lo xuil1 have oil