Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1899-02-02
LOCAL AND GENERAL,

The grounding will have his inning
today.
Harmony will elect P. NJ. mex
Saturday.
This winter comes on the install
ment plan.
Tuesday. February IA, is st. Valen-
tines day
Lent commences on wednesday,
February Is.
1t will soon be time for the chirp OF
the early robin.
Some very fine ice was cut and put
up last week and this.
This time next year we will be get
ting ready to celebrate our centennial.
The first and last days of the year
are always the same, with the exception
of leap years.
F G. HOLMAN, of Allegheny, has
purchased the Aiken & Campbell Gro
Gerry on Centre Ave.
When woman reaches the age of
80 without getting married she begins
to talk about marriage being a failure
If the weather man would only
strike steady gait and keep it up un-
til spring, how happy and thankful we
would be.
The guests of the Butler House had
wild duck from Texas for dinner last
Sunday Fred Leidecker, who is there,
sent them here.
An exchange remarks that young
men who 90 skating with girls are
threatened by two great dangers, thin
ice and matrimony.
1t is only when the water pipes
freeze and woman wants to swear,
and can't, that she realizes the deficien-
cies in her voca abulary
The Toboggan slide got in its work
again, Monday morning. when the hose
cart run off, and hurt some of the boys
and smashed Cal. Anderson's pretty
window.
Not since the time when ''the COW
jumped over the moon" has there been
such high old time in beef, as that
which has been kicked up by the recent
army investigations
Joseph Fisher of Penn twp. lately
found large turtle on his place, with
the mark IF NJ, 1861" cut in its shell;
and he cut his own initials and 1898,
upon it. In TIE course of time that
turtle will become a travelling tomb
stone
NO man has any business to get
married in 1899 unless he is able to
shave with one hand. rock the cradle
with the other and listen 10 what his
wife is trying to tell him about the
sewing society proceedings at the same
time.-Ex.
Farmers in some parts of the State
have been victimized in a new way,
says an exchange. Agents secure per-
mission to tack up signs. then get the
farmer to sign an agreement not to tear
the sign down for 80 days. These agree
ments subsequently turn up as 90-day
notes for $500 each
"A certain paper, In an obituary of
man who had died in the comu nifty,
said "a long procession followed the re-
mains to its last roasting place" OF
course the family rushed to the print
shop" to have the 'error" corrected.
The editor explained that he could not
do it until the seven years back sub
scription the deceased owed had been
paid.
Ore taken from the newly discover
ed gold mines at Cripple Creek. Colora-
do, is in some cases 50 per cent pure
gold and is worth 100000 per ton, and
there seems to be an immense quantity
of it. Besides this vein of almost pure
gold there is six-foot vein of quartz
which assays $1,000 to the ton. This
great body of hidden treasure is found
800 feet below the surface. 1t is the
richest gold mine ever discovered.
Hot lemonade before retiring is good
for the grip. The perspiration caused
thereby is in most cases sufficient to re
lieve the patient from severe colds and
consequent complications, doing away
with quinine or other drugs, which of
ten leave unpleasant results. In bron
chial troubles the acid of lemons re
lieves the irritation of the throat, act
ing at the same time as a natural disin
fectant. Fresh lemon juice will kill
cholera bacillis in water, hence it il
not surprising that it will destroy tn,
so-called influenza bacillus.
"A man who knows the value o
property in and around Butler, said or
hearing of the purchase of the Doerl
farm by the County Commissioners
that had he known it could have beer
bought for $14. 900. the county would
never had a chance at it, Many hav
expressed the opinion that at $4,000
the farm was cheap as an investmen
only and when its admirable location an
adoption for poor farm is considered
the county is to be congratulated, ant
the Commissioners to be commended
on its selection. When first offered fo
sale, 800 an acre was asked, but tn
ice was finally brought down to 81
severa men living in this count
have had l,.nost miraculous escape
from instant de.,th while handlin
nitro-glycerine. We heard an ol
"moon-lighter" telling, the other day
how can of the stuff had been JerKe
out of his hands one night by spy rui
ming against the lowering line. whlc
had been tied to tree 1t was CLOS
call
A Pittsburg paper of last Sunda
narrates an escape of Jack McClear,
as follows: There is no man alive t.
day who had a more exciting experient
than shooter named John McClear,
While filling shell in the derrick, til
well flowed and McCleary ran. II
column Of oil threw the she'll out of tl
hole and it exploded, wrecking the de
rick and tossing McCleary to Il