Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1865-12-02

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q the first ssrSrz of sand stone which
NAV he ten or twelve feet In thick
ness; aud boring through this
comes again a slate and soap stone
OF blush east. and working on. say
for twenty-five feet or so, he reaches
the second strata OF sandstone, ont
of which there comes rushing up.
when the right vein is struck, in
fammable gas, salt water aud petro-
leum. The bore of the we'll is en-
largcd by a rimmer, and then an
iron tube in sections Of about four.
teen tcet, and closely screwed to-
gether, is inserted by sections and
run down to the veins of oil; flax
seed bag which expands when wet is
fixed between the tubing of the
we'll in order to prevent the surface
water from descending; plungcr or
Waived piston is introduced into the
tube, aud the sucker.rod being at
tachcd to the walkingbeam, the
conduct pipes being in readiness, the
engine moves and the precious
treasure gushes forth. This is what
is called pumping we'll. In the
flowing well-that is such as send
the oil out s2ontaneously-the drill
must go down into the third strata
of sandstone, but this. in some in-
stances, ia very deep. III well on
Watson's Flat the drill has reached
the depth of one thousond feet, and
yet the third bed Of sandstone is not
reached.
A CURIOUS CALcULATIoN.-A rap
id penman can write thirty words in
a minute. To do this he mast draw
his quill through the space of a rod
sixteen and half feet. In forty
minutes his pen travels furlong;
and in five aud one.third hours one
mile.
We make on an average, sixteen
curves or turns ofthe pen III writ
ing each word. Writing thirty
words in minute, we must make
four hundred and eighty.eight to
each secondi in an hour twenty
eight thousand eight hundred; in a
day of only five hours, one hundred
aud torty.four thousand; in year
of three hundred days, forty-three
million two hundred thousand.
The man who made one million
strokes with a pen in one month was
not at all remarkable. Many men
make four millions.
Here we have in the aggregate
mark three hundred miles long, to
DC traced on,paper by each writer in
u year :, ;.a.. .m
ary alphabet, we must make from
three to seven strokes of the pen
on an average three and halt to
FOUR Commercial College Monthly.
A TRuTmfuL AND CHEAP BARoME.
rER.-Take a clean glass bottle, and
put in n small quantity Of finely
pulverizcd alnm, then fill the bottle
with spirits Of wine. The alum will
he perfectly dissolved by the alcohol,
and in clear weather It will be rs
transparent as the purest water. On
the approach Of rain or cloudy wealth
er the slum vii. be visible in Aaky.
s,,;rar cloud, in the centre Of the
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