Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1896-03-19

The Next Leap Year.

THE CITIZEN.
The Next Leap Year.
Nintccn hundred will not be, because
. it is not divisible by 400, The trouble
aboutleap years comes because the earth
. does not revolvc wound the sun i'll eX-
actlv an even number of days, or even
hours. Tile exact time is sos days 5
hours IS minutes IS seconds. Astrono-
la.rz. ua.aemauciaus and statesmen have
struggled with this question Of what to
10 uf,H oil piece of a day, because
I'm reality when sos days were counted
for year the time was nearly a quarter
OF q day longer than q year.
III this fraction Of a day lad been per
mitted to run on It would have bya.d by
rushed Christmas into the middle of hot
weather and Fourth of July would have
been celebrated hy the boys on skates.
Tn rS52 good Pope Gregory XIII arang-
ed a more accurate system of accounting
for the fraction Of day. Under the
Tllia1 calendar the odd time was called
. an even quarter of a day and every fourth
year was q leap year, when to February
were allowed 90 days. But that in turn
was too much and the calendar had been
falling behind under the Julian calendar
So Pope Gregory decided that every year
livisible by 4 should be leap year and
give to February 20 days with the eX-
cepGou of The century years. Only cen
sury years diyisible by 100 should be leap
years. While this IS still not exactly
correct to the quarter Of second, it
Will not make any serious confusion till
about 1000 years from now. Probably
by shat time people will have found some
better way of computing time.
Atpresent, however, it is sufficient to
remember that 900 is not divisible by
400 and that consequ entity we shall have
no more leap years or % day Februaries
till Ig94
Ia~eeat sales. TIE greatest cures, and
live uast merit are characteristics OF
Hood S aarsaparilla-
A mob of masked men held up a train
at Windsor, S. C., a few days ago, took a
negro prisoner from two constables and
lynched him for an assault on young
white woman committed eight months
ago.
Paul Francis and Gilbert Francis were
hanged in front of the courthouse at
Convent, La, the other day by a mob
for breaking into house for robbery and
sssaulGug the owner
Tor Sickness Get tho Best
Old Choice Wines from Speer's vine
yards, Fassaic The rich Port Grape
the Claret, win. 1881, the Burgundy and
Jnfcrmeuted are uuexcelled for enter
taiu11luts. family use and invalids. One
bottle OF Speer's IS worth three of Cali
lCrlIla wine.
The members Of the Lycoming county
bar SAYS that ''we need a law authorizing
justice Of tine peace, in case they find a
criminal charge unwarranted, if it is
nIisdcmeauor, to collect their own and
the eoHstable's costs from the prosecutor,
and in case of felony, from the county.
This would prevent the return Of great
many cases to court that are probably
made only because by so doing the JUS
Gce and constable can get their costs.
-Euglisi Spawn Lluimenr remo-es az
LarJ soft or calloused Jumps and blem,
shes ,Eum horses. blood spavius, curhs
pEnt-, sweeney, riugbune, SUITES, surail
u Swollen tLruats, coughs, etc. Save
30 boy use OF cne bottle. Warranted The |
most wonderful Blemish Cure ever known |
Sold by J. G. Redick, druggist Butler = : |
1t has come to be popular idea that
the township schools should be graded
that each teacher should have a record of
the standing Of his pupils so that his sue
cessor will be able to know how to grade |
and classify them, and that this should
all lead up to a high school This system
has been pracuced in several counties of |
the Commonwealth for the past six or |
eight years with excellent results, and il !
has long been a praticular hobby Of Pro
lessor Allison, principal of the Punxsu-
tawuey schools. He thinks that such a
plan would inspire the pupils with de
sire TO learn what would be highly bene-
fetal, and is very anxious for its adoption
III Jefferson county.
One Minute Cough Cure touches the
ughr spot. also touches it at the right
Hice d yoU LUEe it when you have cough
ur cold. see the pointl Then don't
cough j. Z. REDICK.
8 diphthcria epidemic at Woodlawn
Nd, Is said by the local boards Of health
to have been caused by a cat
Postoflce Inspectors captured three
greeu-goods men in Chicago last Friday
with $4,000 in money in,their posses
sion
1896 Cbmoe Braady
From grape wine. has. bv its extreme