Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1896-04-09
W. A. Fisher has purchased the
Grove q McMullin grocery.


Grove g. McMullin grocery.
One of the large culvert pipes in Blu Il
st, between Clay and Penn IS busted
und there is dangerous hole in the street
there.
"A charter was granted ut Harrisburg
yesterday, to the Butler and Pittsbarg IL
r. Co., with an authorized capital OF -
O00, 900.
The scholars who attended the schoo
taught By Thomas Berry in Butler nom
1889 to 1852 will hold reunion in the Old
brick school building on Jefferson st on
the 3Oth Of May next.
AT a wedding to occur in Meadville
four ministers, with a Bishop at the head
have been engaged on the splicing job. 1t
is said that three-fold cord is not easily
broken, but four-ply tie ought to hold
for quite spell.
Says a Rhode Island paper; ''The
fact is well known that tEe Pie Belt lios
wholly north of Mason and DiXon's line, y
Some one else has defined the pie belt as
running tho length of New England, then
westward through New York and Pennsyl-
vania, and so on to the great grain region
west of the Mississippi.
The cold weather Of last week made
the blue birds seek shelter. A farmer
lately told us that after warm weather set
in last Spring he sawed hollow limb oil
a largo apple tree in his orchard, and that
fourteen dead blue birds dropped out of it.
They crawled in a knot hole to escape a
blizzard and had either been frozen or
smothered.
The roads throughout the county are
reported as being in horrible condition
this spring. Surely the farmers should get
stirred up and take some action that Will
lead to better roads for their own use.
When the roads dry no, would it not be
good idea for the Supervisors to put their
scrapers on and follow this by running a
heavy roller over the roaa. This would
make the roads good at least one month
before they would be otherwise Sex
The word "cigar" is of Spanish origin,
and is from cigarra, meaning. grasshopper
Tobacco was first raised in gardens
Cigarral is Spanish for garden, meaning
literally, the place where the grasshopPer
sings. So in the early days, when Span
lard would take some dried tobacco leaves
from his garden and roll them up for
smoking purposes, he would offer one to
friend with the remark, "Es de mi cigar
RAIL-" meaning thereby that 'this Is from
my garden" Subsequently the expression
became este CAIRO es dc mi cigarral"-
this grasshopper is from my grasshoppery,
or this roll of tobacco is from my garden.
The wide wagon tire law provides that
persons who shall own and use draught
wagons on the public highways with tires
not less than four inches in width for
hauling 1000 pounds weight shall for each
year receive rebate of one-fourth their
assessed highway tax. farmer who has
wide tires on all his wagons except one
asked the Attorney General at Harrisburg
if he were entitled to reduction of road
tax The Attorney. General concluded, in
substsn nee, that if farmer has six wide
tire wagons and one narrow tired, the lat
ter renders the others null and void so for
as rebate is concerned.
Tho Yegetarians point with pride to
the fact that many of the worlds great
and famous people never eat any meat.
For example, Count Tolstoi, who amid the
wilds of Russia, produces books that are
read the world over; "0uida," the novel
ist, who finds a fruit diet an essential to
successful fiction writing; Mrs. Mona
Caird, who flourishes on the same susten-
ance; and Prof Mayor, the profound Cam
brid ge scholar, who lunches on piece oil
bread and an apple. and declares that high
thinking has no greater enemy than flesh
feeding. There are plenty of people, how
ever, who would rather cling to the flesh
pots than become like Tolstoi,, Ouida or
Mrs. Card,
The Kids were delighted with their
'tRabbit's nests" last Sunday morning
The significance of the Easter egg is ex-
planned as follows:-'In Germany and
among the Pennsylvania Germans toy
rabbits or hares, made of canton flannel
stuffed with cotton, are given to the chill
! rem on Easter morning, they being tolf
that this 0shter has laid the Easter eggs
| This custom is derived from the Legend
that the hare was originally bird, ant
was changed into quadruped by the god
dess Oslara or Estre. and, in gratitude tt
her, the hare exercises its original bir(
function to lay eggs tor the goddess on he
festal day"