Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1898-09-22


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What's the prince of occupations IN
the autumn on the farm?
What's the job that sways the scepter
mid the esweet September charm?
Harkl hear somebody mutter:
Why, it's making apple butter.
That is reckoned the prince of jobs in
autumn on the farm.
Fall footwear.
Good sweet cider"
Its interesting to know
In Singapore Bibles are sold in %
different languages
What we call aping in case of a
monkey we call fashion in case of man
and woman.
Next Christmas will have military
tinge, all the new toys for boys are in
the military line
The cool nights have stiffened the
wings of the mosquito and closed the
pipes of the merry katydids
Last Saturday WAS New Years day
in the Hebrew Calendar-No. $685. and
next Monday is the Day of Atonement.
-Spreking of proverbs, hat on the
sidewalk is more likely to have brick
under it than the hat which the average
man is wearing.
There are three big castor bean
plants back of Col. Thompson's Office,
that ought to be housed for the winter.
One of them is ten feet high.
Mary Russell, Bonatella, Belle Jean
and n H. p four Butler county horses,
secured some race money at Oil City
and McKee's Rocks last week.
The total production of petroleum
in the United States in 1897, according
to the report of the Geological Survey
was go, $50, 0s1 barrels, compared with
go, $50, 361 in 1896.
There's one crop that never fails,
said the philosophical farmer, as he
limped grumblingly along. IF you
plant foot in tight shoe you'll raise
corn every time.
The Good Will and First Ward
Hose companies will celebrate the 21st.
anniversary of their organization next
month, by parade, public meeting and
banquet. The date has not yet been Sc
lected.
j. K Lee, of Middlesex township,
lost a suit of clothes from wagon. be-
tween Bakerstown and Sharpsburg, and
will reward the person who returns
them to him. His address is Glade
Mills.
"A writer on dancing estimates that
18 waltzes are equal to about IA miles of
heel and toe work And yet many
girl too frail to walk down into the
kitchen can cover about IA miles of
ballroom floor per evening
AT conference of the principal ex-
press companies in Chicago it was an
nounced that the companies would
hereafter bear the expense of the war
tax, instead of requiring the public to
stamp the receipts issued by the com
panies.
The crazy fellow, who calls him
self George Thompson and who board
ed for a while in Hannahstown, has
turned up at Pitcairn with his rolls of
Confederate money. He expressed a
lot of it to the u S. Treasury few
days ago, and is now under arrest.
Our grocers are paying 1Sc for but-
ter, 12tc for fresh eggs, 45c for potatoes,
30c for apples 75c to 81 90 for peaches
75c to S1.0o for pears, CSC dozen
punches for celery, SOC a doz for egg
plant 75c bu. for onions, 40c bu. for
tomatoes, and &c doz for peppers
The war tax on fairs whare horse
races for purses are given is so year
In case people are hired to give exhibi-
tions, as in the case of most fairs, the
society pays 800, or can settle at the
rate of so for each performer This
tax is pretty heavy, but it goes
An ingenious mathematician calcu-
lates that one days issue of the war
revenue stamps in the United States
would coyer nearly six acres of ground,
and that if placed end to end they
would extend 617 miles. And there's a
mile or so of stamps per day that people
forget to put on checks or neglect to
cancel
About a thousand people stood
around the Salvation Army" at the
junction of E. Cunningham and Mair
Sts., Tuesday evening. Nine tenths OF
them suddenly moved away and went
to Esq. Gilghrist's office, following
leader like lot of sheep, and not
knowing where they were going or why
they We're going there.
If the farmer who has some pooI
scraggy, hillside land were to selec
from three to five acres of it and plant
nut trees thereon, seeing likewise tha
the young saplings were kept alive ant
cared for during the first period of thei
existence, in not many years his leal
and unsightly hillside would be a mos
valuable portion of his ground M
food is becoming more popular ever,
year. 1t has been found to take tn
place of both bread and meat to a con
siderable extent The hickory tree, tn,
chestnut and many varieties of walnu
will grow anywhere in the United
States
The mechanical genius of tn
American people is freely illustrate,
in the remarkable increase of the for
eign demand for our locomotives. Th
railroad Gazette has brought togethe
the figures for this branch of our expor
trade since 1895, and they show an in
crease in the number of locomotive
shipped abroad during that time, from
so III 1886, valued at 1898 373, to 338 il
1897, valued at So, 22J, S31. And durin.
the first of the present year no less thai
270 American locomotives have beer
exported. Much the same story of ad
r.