Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-03-27

CHINESE BILL.-F. c.. Wisner asks
"Who was the author and introducer of
the Chinese bill vetoed by the President
last March ?" 1t was Senator Sargent's
Fifteen passenger bill, so-called.
THE PEDRO B1LL.-'s Temperance says
In reading the so-called anti-pedro law
passed by the Assembly last week find that
no mention is made of billiards. How is
this ?" The bill includes all games Of
chance and skill played in saloons fol
drinks or money.
FUMES. Michael Kelly, Helena, Mont,
asks that some one will do him and the
people of his section kindness by writing
to him what fall or grade. is used in river
fumes in California or Nevada. Also the
size of stringers and ties, and the best
method of constructing fumes. 1t is in.
ferred from the letter that he refers to
river mining.
BREATH.-A Constant Subscriber u
asks for remedy for impure breath not
caused by decayed teeth. We are not pre-
pared to usurp the functions of the physi-
clan. Where the teeth are sound and clean
there is some other physical disarrange-
ment which of course should be treated by
one skilled in diseases. We do not believe
in "receipts and remedies ready made
to be self-applied in all cases, and espe-
cially where the cause of the disorder is
unknown.
SEVERAL QUESTIONS. = Please let me
know the hour of the arrival of General
Grant in San Francisco from the Chinese
empire? 2. Does Missouri produce more
centals of wheat than California :? 3. What
is the difference between coal oil and pc
troleum? w.
Princeton, March 7, 1880.
l. September Goth, about 5 P. NJ. q No.
8. Petroleum is rock oil "(petra, rock,
oleum, OILY, natural product of the soil in
some countries. 1t is of no definite COM
position in nature, but consists of various
oily hydrocarbons which hold in solution
parafine and more or less solid bitumen OF
asphaltum. Bitumen consists of asphalt
tum with not enough petroleum to keep
the whole fluid at ordinary temperatures,
and liquid oily bitumens are oils
used in commerce, and some are termed
coal oils Petroleum was burned in
lamps as substitute for oil ages ago. The
liquid oily bitumens are now found In
many parts. Oil is collected from petro-
leum springs, refined, and known as coal
oil, rock oil and earth oil. Petroleum was
early known in Pennsylvania, and the In
dams used it as medicine. In Allegheny
county, New York, one stream became
known as Oil creek, from petroleum oil be-
ing found in it's banks. Often there are
springs of oil quite pure and needing but
little distillation. This crude oil is practi-
cally identical with petroleum. Sometimes
the source of oil wells is traced to beds of
| Ignite, and then again the source is OBJ
scure, and so, too, with petroleum. Re-
fined petroleum produces an oil known
both as coal ell and petroleum, while crude
coal oils, i. e., that flowing from wells as
such, are known only as coal oils.
Coal oils have long since been ex-
tracted also from camel, containing
unusual proportions of bitumen. In the
reetifcation of petroleum, the light oils
| first come over and are called benzole, and
are sold as cleansing liquids. Then come
heavy oils, used for lubricating machinery,
after being mixed with other substances.
Paraffine is separated from the heavy oils
and condensed and gives pound from
four gallons Of petroleum. The very best
petroleum yields 80 per cent. of light oils,
suitable for illumination. Petroleum is of
different colors and specific gravity. The
substance is ordinarily of greenish hue,
more or less deep and opaque. Some
varieties are light and have a reddish
color. Some are so dark and heavy as to
refuse to flow when cold.
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