American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-12-13
Kerosene Lamps.

THIS is the season when nearly every
paper we take up relates some horrible
| casualty from the explosion of kerosene
lamp, or the like, and women and chill
dren are either killed outright or terribly
burned and SCARED for life. A simple
knowledge of the infiammable nature of
the fluid would probably put an end to
nearly all the accidents. First, no lamps
hould ever be filled after dark by the
light of q candle. Always do this work
after the breakfast dishes are put away,
and then not only fill them, but wash the
chimneys, for if they are dim and smoky,
you cannot expect to have bright light
Take the chimney in one hand and breath
through it; then draw large wisp of
paper up and down it, and all the blur
will be removed. If the chimney is black
ened with lamp smoke, turn warmish wa
ter through the tube, and then wipe out
with paper in the same style AS before. If
the lamps are glass, and they become
clouded with a deposit from the kerosene,
take lime water that is milky with the
lime and shake it up in the lamp. Do
this with two different washings and all
the deposit will be removed A little
| chloride of lime, dissolved in warm
water, and left in lamp or can which
has held kerosene, will deOdoriZe it very
soon. Lamps must be filled every morn
| ing. THIS is imperatice duty for every
oil burns down in lamp, there is created
highly inflammable gas, which gathers
imperceptily over the surface, and as fast
as the Oil is consumed this gas increases,
so when the oil is nearly out of the lamp,
the slightest jar of the table will set the
gas on fire, an explosion follows instanta-
neously, and bombshell would not be
more destructive, for its touches are
deathly. But if the oil is burned only
half way down in your lamp, the gas is
not OF sufficient power to do any injury;
therefore let me beg of you never to defer
the operation of lamp-tilling to another
day, but see yourself that it is done
When | read of deaths occurring from
trying TO light fires with kerosene. | al
ways think the verdict of the coroner's
jury should be, 'Serced them riglt," for it
seems impossible to believe that any NOR.
tai could be so foolish as to tamper with
such highly infiammable liquid. Better
try to kindle fires with IA powder can well
filled than with the contents of your kero-
sene can.-Datsy Eye6rfght, in Country
Gentleman.
"A new street pavement has been tried
in San Francisco. 1t is called hydro
carbolized brick" and is made of bricks
of a soft, porous nature, which are boiled
in coal tar, which renders them tough and
nearly rs hard as granite. A road bed is
with water. A layer of prepared brick is
then laid flatwise, each brick being dipped
in boiling tar as it is put down. This is
overlaid by second course of
prepared brick placed close togcth-
er edgewise, each brick dipped
as before" The interstices are then filled
with boiling tar, and the whole covered
with Il thin layer of screened gravel. The
cost is about thirty-six or thirty seven
cents per square foot
chinese labor in Louisiana has not
proved successful. Most of the coolies. il
is said, soon become worthless and dan.
gerous. In several instances they attempt
ed to murder ovcrseers, and planter in
Terrebonne parish had TO kill one China
man and wound another in sclf-dcfense
The only planter who got along with them
was one who treated them roughly and
made them afraid of him. Most of The
Chinese have drifted out of the State
The hard times do not seem to have
affected manufactures in Seymour, Conn,
very disastrousIy. The United States Pin
Company, Fowler Nail Company, Days
Rubber Works, and the Paper Works are
all running full time. The Douglass
Manufacturing Company and the New
Haven Copper Company are running nine
hours with a full complement of hands.
The Roman ecclesiastics of England
are more and more convinced that the
marriage of Catholics and Protestants is
an unmitigated evil, and are taking meas
ures to suppress it as far as possible.
BEAR caught in trap al Eden VT
one day last week, chewed off his impris-
oned leg and walked away on the other
three, thus setting humanity an example
how to bear an amputation.