Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-12-27
PETROLEUM CHEWING GUM.
New Industry that Is Eating into
tila Spruce and TaGaarack Gum
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New York SUM-
''Did you know that nearly three-quarters
OF the chewing gum that tires the jaws of
the rising generation in the United States is
now made from petroleum. said manufac-
turing confectioner to a Sun reporter tho
other day
The reporter did not know it.
I'm, yes" said the confectioner. 'EPetro-
laum first knocked the spots off the whale
Oil business of New England, and now it is
chipping into its spruce and tamarack gum in
dustry at a fearful rate. Here's lump Of
petroleum we have just received The con-
fectioner slapped his hand on large oblong
block that resembled piece of marble. "a
few days ago." said he, that came out of
the ground in Pennsylvania, dirty, green
ish-brown fluid, with smell that could
knock an OK down. The oil refiners took it
and put it through a lot of chemical pro-
cesses that don't know anything about, and
after taking out large percentage of kero-
sene, good share of naphtha, considerable
benzine, a cartload OF so of tar and num-
Der of other things with names longer than
the alphabet, left us this mass of nice clean
wax There isn't any taste to it, and no
more smell than there is to china plate.
eve will take this lump, cut it up, and
| melt it in boilers. This piece will weigh 200
pounds. We add thirty pounds of cheap
sugar to it, and flavor it with vanilla, winter
green, peppermint, or any other essential
oil. Then we turn it out on a marble table
and cut it into all sorts of shapes with dies
After it is wrapped in oil tissue paper and
packed in boxes it is ready for the market
You can imagine that somebody is chewing
gum in this country when tell you that a
lump like this one will make 10000 penny
cakes, and we use one up every week There
are dozens Of manufacturers using almost as
much of the wax as we do
Il believe this petroleum chewing gum, if
honestly made, is perfectly harmless, and
that is mora than can be said OF some Of the
gums made from the juices OF trees, es-
pccially the imported article"
Tile Guiiloti.,e To- Day in France.
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By this time il was broad daylight Houy
appeared quite uncolcerned and walked
stoutly toward the guillotiue The priest
made another attempi, but in vain. The as
sistants quickly seized him by the arms and
threw him on a long pine board He offered
not a particle OF resistance. They fastened
him tightly to this board with straDs-one
across his breast, a second across his thighs.
the third at his ankles. They then put the
plank in place, pushing it SO far forward that
the fellows NECK reached the lower semi
circular notch Of the guillotine. The exc
caJioner stepped down from the platform.
and going around to the front, seized Houy
by the hair and pulled with all his might. I
heard the fellow cry out with pain. / saw
DfebEer touch a spring. and then like a flash
the sharp knife fell. It cut the neck in two.
The head rolled into basket half filed with
sawdust, and the eyes were wide open. The
cody was then unstrapped and thrown in the
basket. The execution took precisely two
minutes and half. When the knife fell the
crowd rushed in ari it was with great dill
Guilty they were driven back again.
The execdtiener's assistants fell to work to
clean the instrument. The basket with its
sawdust and the bloody remains was placed
in the wagon behind the old white horse
and driven to the cemetery. After a pre-
tended internent the body was transferred
to an undertaker's wagon and taken to the
hospital. The head was taken to the dis
secting table, where, by means of electric.
ity, eli the muscles OF the face were excited
one after the other. At first it was convulsed
with frightful grimace. The eyes opened
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face at first assumed the expression Of grief
and then OF rage, SO that the jaws dropped
together and the teeth were CRASHED in fury.
The muscles Of the body were next operated
upon. The arms rose and fell, the legs were
alternately drawn up and thrown out vio-
lently, the breast novel up and down as If
breath was still in the body. We could
plainly hear the air whistling through tho
bleeding neck. When the corpse was cold
and stiff these experiments were discontin-
ued; it was then taken back to the cemetery
and buried.