Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1843-10-04
The editor Of the Nalchcz Free Trader

The editor of The Nalchez Free Trader
discusses Lard Oil in the following strain.
Lard OH.-Cincinnati has eclipsed
Connecticut in. Yankee inventions. Horn
dinls. Eastwood hams, and pine.knit nut
ne2s, Tor usefulness, must now give place
TO the oleaginous properties Of the much
vauntcd 'lani whale" Some philoiogisI
at the east, defining the word Cincinnati,
lcurncjIy said ,ha, "it was an earnest ex-
horlaiion 10 Nathaniel 10 sin twice J" aud
Cincinnati. or some of the Nalty's who
live there, have sinued twice 10 selling us
vlllauous lard oil that will either resist
combustion with the stupid obstinacy Of u
crusly Jack, or barn out all al once. like
brush. .heap.-Wc have twice trusted 10
its iIluminations. bu: shalt be led BY its
lieh, no more. Having had The most ex-
cclIenl opportunity through weeks Of un-
rest aud sickness, To watch The eliinmer-
ing lamp of fever chamber, we speak
knowingly; and "more in sorrow Than in
anger" We pronounce the Lard Oil we
have used swinish humbug. II would
spulrer. growI. squeak. crust over, aud
90 OUT al mdnishi-and when il did burn.
iried with The lard lamps and their hea
tiers or burners, a lamp holding a gallon.
would nut have s'ond The night ~. But
its most usual feature WAS to repudiate
com brsIiou altogether. or burn us unwil
liugly as live pig would have dpne. iu-
deed, we should prefer lively pig, dipped
in rurpcnlime. and lighted al his candel
extremity, to the lamp
A friend Of ours, moi long since at Gin
cinnali, was amused TO see great plumbers
Of swine going down into The river nj the
levee aud bEbbling 70. the coas, off food
thrown from steam boats. Some Of the
old swine had aitaiued marvellous Gu
paci,y Of keeping under waite; long time.
sending up bubbles TO indicate where they
were exploring for food. Our friend sup
posed il desperate attempt on the part
of the hogs 70 becoms aquatic animals and
be in every respect every like whale"
We learn thar candles, made from land, ,
or from lard by the French chemical pro-
cess, were very much liked in The nor
rhern cities last wiuter.-were sold one
third cheaper than sperm. aud burn: clear
er and longer; but the lard oil we have
had in The South needs more science TO lis
manufacture.
A New Orleans merchant, who has a
propensity sometimes to draw on his i'm.
agina,ion for his facts. declares that con-
sieumcn, Of lard oil made to him
was SO irnperfnc,ly rendered into oil thai
he was alarmed one day by the squealing
of pigs in the casks which. upon examin-
atom, proved that the oil had gone back
TO the original pigs again.
Norsl Method Of Making Sali.-We are
informed thai in digging one Of The sal,
wells of the Kauawha, vein of carburei-
cd hydrogen (imlammable gas) was
struck. and that the gas comes up in large
quantities, mixed with the saIl water.-
The proprietor has contrived to separate
the gas from the water and while the
water is conveyed into the boilers through
Que set Of pipes, the gas is conveyed in
ano'hcr set under the boilers. where it is
inflamed, and eyapora,es The water -
Thus the same well yields The water Ia
make salt, and the fuel 10 evaporaia III