Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1899-12-21

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of the week
This has been very pleasant week
but it will wind up with hot old time
and a slugging match.
The girl who wants to impress upon
you that she is not a school mann carries
a market basket this week.
One of the latest explanations given
for people standing up in crowded cars
is that they are strapped for seats.
Flying machines are not yet sue
cess, the chances of a fellows getting
up in the world are still as limited as
ever.
Brick work on the superintendent $
and mems buildings at the County
Home will not commence until next
spring.
Harry Grieb has improved the
appearance of his store-room by putting
in new wall cases, and an optical de
partment.
The Newsboys Dinner given each
year by the Leader Pub. Co., will take
place in Old City Hall, on Monday, Jan.
1st at 2 p. m.
1t does not lessen the Importance of
the fact to the victim of cunning acci-
dent that man cant help what's done
behind his back.
There is no necessary connection
with base ball in the fact, but one of
these days the speedy'Aguinaldo will be
caught on the fly.
Unfortunately when a mans life
and prospects have gone to the dogs it
is generally too late to do anything but
whistle for them.
As several of the school-teachers
wish TO see the inside of the Jail, Sheriff
Dodds has set aside this (Thursday)
afternoon for their benefit.
And yet, those people who are so
sure the nineteenth century ends this
month will be among the first to write
1899 on their next years letters.
Glaciers live for hundreds of years.
1t is not known whether this is due to
the healthfulness of mountain life or is
merely the result of keeping cool.
- There will be Sunday School Christ
mas treats Saturday evening, Sunday
evening and Monday,-never before
such good chance for the go-arounds.
Advertisers should make note of
the large and increasing subscription
list of the CITIZEN, which greatly en-
hances its value as an advertising medi
um.
Mohammed, hearing one of his
men say: "I'll turn my camel loose
and trust him to God,' said to him;
Tie your camel, and then trast him to
God"
"A man who has tried it says that
eating candy will cure the drink habit
Whenever the longing for alcoholic
comes ON few bits candy
will satisfy all craving.
The proper pronunciation of tn e
name of the great Polish musician
Paderewski. is not 'Pad-er-oos-ky," nor
pad er-ef-sky," nor Pad d-er-oof-s y,
but is Pad er- es-ky."
An old teacher who called on US
Monday said he attended his first in
,titute in 1868, there were but little
more than score in attendance and
mot girl in the gang.
The Y. NJ c. A. Current Topic
Club discussed Georges single tax theo-
ry Monday evening, and will have
Russia and Siberia" as their subject at
their meeting of Jan. 1st.
Prospects thea trical stars played a
1rama in the Academy building at that
place in n most pleasing manner Satur-
lay evening. Portersville has invited
them to play there in the near future.
For every dollar in a mans pocket
there are dozen uses; and the success
ful advertiser is the one who can con-
vince the man that what is most wanted
l. l. e.. ~. H. e,t.N
Somebody entered Mrs Pape's resi-
ience on e. Jefferson st. early Tuesday
by way of the back porch;
slipped into the bed rooms and gather
ed up the boys pants and took them
put on the porch and helped themselves
to pocket books containing bout thirty
dollars
The building which George White
hill bought on s. Main ST. is to be va
Gated on Jan. 1st, and will be torn down
at once. The Producers's Torpedo Co.
will move from it to the John Stein
building and Esq Gilghrist to Chris
Stocks basement.
The statistics of football show that
during the past season II players were
killed and 81 more or less injured The
hunting returns of single States can fur
nish larger showing of dead sports
men than this. Hunting is clearly the
greater of the two games greater even
than fighting the Filipinos.
There is hope for school boys wheth-
er they be bright or dull George
Dewey barely got through the Naval
Academy at the foot of the class, while
Capt. Oberlin Carter passed West Point
with the highest honors ever given to a
cadet, Both achieved distinction, but
in widely different directions. Dewey
is an Admiral and the husband of
millicnairess. Carter succeeded in en-
bezzling about 81, 800, 900 and is now
undergoing Imprisonment in the peni-
tentiary.
If it were not for narrowing up the
feelings of the poor farmers of Craw-
ford county, the ones Mr.. Sibley used
to feel so sorry for when he was after
their votes we would mention that one
farmer in Western Crawford, who by
the way it is unnecessary to note is not
poor farmer, last week sold a two
year-old steer for over one hundred dol
lars. The farmer is Porter Johnson,
of Harmonsburg, and the steer, weigh