Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1899-06-01
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Il told you So

Il told you so.
We know an editor whose tooth is
watering for some country ham.
Many man who says he would
rather be right than President, can't
be either.
The plank road was full of bicy-
clists, Sunday, and they had race on
it, Monday.
Lots of people are looking at the
applications for license, now filed in rhe
Clerks Office.
A new office building in Park Row,
New York, contains thirty stories and
rises four hundred feet above the street
"A special meeting of the Ladies
Hospital Association will be held in the
Y. NJ. G. A parlors on Tuesday June
9th at p NJ
1t is light, not darkness. that hides
the stars, just as prosperity and not adj
versity, dims our virtues. The virtues
of most of Us are still a shining.
Don't forget to attend the First
Ward Hose Cos big picnic at Conneaut
Lake, June Is, two weeks from today.
Round trip tickets from Butler good for
two days will cost 81.
Any man vino has caught the glance
of just the right damsel under just the
right circumstances knows that wireless
telegraphy antedates both Tesla and
Marconi by several thousand years.
The County Commissions gave John
and Frank Pierce the job of making
some new beds in the Diamond Park
and planting them with flowers which
adds greatly to the appearance of the
Park.
-You are invited to participate il
in ''Firemen's Day and Picnic, " at Con
neaut Lake, on Thursday, June 18th,
1899, in the interest OF the First Ward
Hose Co. Special rates on the Bessie,
Butler Bands and n Y Orchestra
In recent case Judge Morrison, of
Mexican county, took occasion to say
"lt isa mistaken notion that one driving
a horse along the highway can compel
man on foot to give the whole of the
road or run over him a footman has
right to ample room as well as a
team.
Its peculiar fact that you can
nearly always tell mans nature by
the way he picks up n newspaper. The
sporty man turns to the baseball page,
the serious man to the editorials, but
the thrifty, economical. shrewd money
making man turns to the advertise
ments.
Hearts seem to be trump in jewelry
just now. Huge friendship hearts,
handsomely enameled and set with
precious stones, are extensively shown.
Another fad is the signet ring worn on
the little finger. The newest signet
rings for women have heart cut from
ruby, emerald or sapphire set in the
top.
"A kind hearted Butler lawyer. who
pities the present one-handed gener-
alton of American women. has invent
ed a skirt-raiser and holder, which
works with a spring and snap, and is
so simple that it will be used by all of
them. He does not intend to patent it,
and his name will go into history as a
public benefactor.
County Supd't Painter desires the
he newly elected Secretaries of the
School Boards to forward their finan-
cial reports to his office in Butler, by
mail. He suggests that the meetings
be held until the latter part of July.
See schedule of examinations in anouh-
er column.
A large audience enjoyed the pipe
organ recital by Prof. Paris Myers in
the NJ E. church, Thursday evening
last. Besides his playing Prof. Myers
has pleasant and highly cultivated
tenor voice and sang several selections
The popular reader, Miss Beulah Tim
blin was repeatedly encored by the au
dience.
There are all kinds of mines il
Pennsylvania. The greatest are o.
course the iron and coal mines, but few
,ao,,ln ,vcuIJ or,,aoo tLat tha rax+ ~
tensive mining industry is the sanC
mines in Pennsylvania, These mine
are rarely underground, however. ant
many of them are viewed with wonde
by passengers on the Pennsylvania rail
road approaching Pittsburg. Who'll
mountains are being dug away and tn
granular rock forming them is bein
reduced to sand for the manufacture O
glass in and about Pittsburg
ITO the whole world at large ther
is something particularly appealin
about the woman in the apron, says
writer She may not be able to d
more in the culinary line than
scramble eggs or make taffy, but sh
suggests possibilities of delight tha
endears her to everyone who behold
her No poet has eyer sung of til
charm of the apron, no words hay
been written particularly in its prais
yet it is in its simple lines very pea
of praise to women the world owe
emphasizing their vocation and sigma
izing that peculiar line of work whic
is theirs solely and wholly because the
are women and because they reign oy,
small but powerful dominion call,
home
People would find less difficult
with ready made shoes, said an expe
fenced salesman, if they would star
up to fit them on instead of sittiI
down. Nine persons ont of ten, pa
ticularly women, want comfortab
chair when they are fitting n shoe, al
it is with the grea test difficulty you C;
get them to stand for few minute
even after the shoe is fitted The
when they begin walking about, tn
wonder why the shoes are not so COZ
Portable rs they were at first trial
womans foot is considerably small
when she sits in a chair than when S