Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1901-01-03
Six above zero Wednesday morn,

This is bargain month-look over
the new ads
The plate glass works is shut down
this week for repairs.
Furnished rooms for rent; inquire
at 12s w Wayne St.
The Centennial and the street cars
lwere the great events of 1900.
Republican local primary, Satur-
day the 18th from to Z p m.
The public schools. of Butler, start
ed in on the new century yesterday.
The New Castle Courant-Guardian
has been purchased by Pittsburg cap
talists and Geo G.. Pryor is editor.
The Grove connected with the
Cudahy case has been captured and he
seems to be as black as he's painted.
| The Luthurn Church of Prospect
held an oyster supper in the ODD
Fellows hall at that place Tuesday
night, to raise money to make repairs
on the church buildings.
That western story of forty-nine
children going through the ice was a
cruel hoax, sent out by fool, who
should know that we go through trouble
in this world without chucking in some
imaginary ice.
The Pittsburg Leade gave its annual
New Years dinner to 1000 newsboys
and boot-blacks, Tuesday, and here Is
partial list of what disappeared: 300
turkeys, so gallons chicken salad, 5000
fried oysters, 100 lbs. roast beef, hams
8 bushel potatoes, etc. with finish OF
600 pies.
The odd-lookinR piece of rock on the
editors desk, this week, is piece Of the
Devils Slide" of the Cinnibar noun |
tains in Montana, brought here by Hen.
Pisor, and as it is too large for paper
weight and not quite large enough for
wash-board we have not yet decided |
what to do with it. |
The other day we noticed an apple |
tree that bore about hundred sparrows
and as the sparrows were bearing down |
the bare limbs, some shot from the bore |
of gun dropped some of them upon a
boar that was feeding in a pen below. |
They were English sparrows and the
incident might have made Boer laugh,
and it might have bored him
The Butler county school directors |
in connection with the teachers insti-
tute, elected the following officers: |
President, l. ]. McCandless, of Butler;
secretary, Edwin Brown, of Mars; dele
gates to the state convention, G.. d. |
Swain, of Harmony; A. H. Starr, of
Maharg; J. A. Myers, of Silverville; |
W. II. Gelbacb. Of Zelienople; j. ID.
Graham, of st. Joe; alternates, w. r.
Hockenberry, of Slippery Rock, w. w.
Hunter, of Brownsville. Papers were
read by G. D. Swain, DIR. j. G. Barr,
Christie Robb. DIR. w. r. Bockenberry |
and W. II. Gelback. Addresses were
made by DR.. c. c. Round and Prof /.
NJ. McClymonds. of Slippery Rock.
The Y NJ c. A. held its annual
reception New Years day. Refresh
ments were served by the Ladies' Aux
iliary in the assembly hall on the second
floor from IN to 9p IN. The tables |
were well patronized, some tozzle head
ed little codgers returning as many as
six times for their coffee and cake. At |
eight o'clock musical program was
commenced in the auditorium. The |
Y. NJ. G. A. male chorus, under direct |
ion of r. Fisher sang excellently as did
also Miss Inez Anderson and Rob'ti
Wick. Master Ralph Kirkpatrick's
phonograph made several bands play, ]
etc. At nine o'clock the elevated track
in the gym was crowded with people to
witness the basket ball game between
the Tigers, Of Pittsburg, and the End
team of the Y. M. G. A. The Tigers
won, II to 13.
Liquid Air" is made by compress
ing air until there is pressure of 1000
pounds to the square inch in the ma
chine; then running the compressed air |
through a strong pipe or coil and max
ing it as cold as possible with ammonia
and then allowing it to emerge from
very small aperture at'ordinary pressure
in the end of the pipe. when part of it ]
drops into vessel, and is called liquid |
air. The contraction, freezing and ex-
pansion does the work and the liquid |
result has temperature Of 3l2 degrees
below zero. A man named Foster Of
Philadelphia had some on the stage Of
the Opera House. during the last evening |
of the late Teachers Institute and his
description of its properties, and OK
periments with it were very interesting |
1t is carried around in double, glass |
globe with vacuum between the
globes enclosed in wooden box and |
kept as cool as possible with ammonia.
The bottle or globe is left open as there |
IL constant evaporation and the stuff |
would explode il confined. Cranberries |
or other fruits, or vegetables or meats |
immersed in it are frozen hard and |
solid in q few moments, and yet the |
operator can put his hand in the stuff |
without harm, If he takes it out imme
diately. and watch-spring immersed
in the stuff and then set on fire burns
like tinder These and hundred other
experiments made an interesting lee
ture." The stuff is something new, and
may have great future"