Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1884-01-30
Petroleum Chewing Gum.

"Did you know that nearly three
quarters of the chewing gum that
tire the jaws OF the rising generation
in the United States is now made from
petroleum." said manufacturing con-
fectioner to San reporter the other
day.
The reporter didnot know it,
"Oh, yes" said the confectioner
Petroleum first knocked the spots off
of the whale oil business of New Eng
land, and now it is clipping into its
spruce and tamarack gum industry at
fearful rate. Here's lump of petro-
leum we have just received" The
confectioner slapped his hands on q
large oblong block that resembled a
piece OF marble. "a few days ago."
said he, "that came out of the ground
in Pennsylvania, dirty, greenish
brown fluid, with smell that could
knock an OK down. The oil refners
took it and put it through lot of
| chemical processes that | don't know
anything about and after taking out
large percentage of kerosene, good
share of naphtha, considerable benzine,
cart load or so of tar, and number
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 a
china plate.
1--WE will take this lump. cnt 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, pepper
mint, or any other essential oil Then
we turn it out on 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 some
body is chewing gum in this coantry
when tell you that 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 more than can be
said of some of the guns made from
the juices of trees, especially the i'm
ported articles"
-Spicer says that "The buzz saw
does business with curious people in an
off hand way"
Mr.. NJ. Elkin, WRIoHTsvILLE, Pa.
SAYS: used Browns iron Bitters for
loss of appetite and found them excel
lent, invigorating and refreshing"
-"Catching on bobs," which is in
dulged by many of the little folks, is
dangerous practice and one Of these
days will result in q serious accident.
The travelling showmen are exhib-
iting three skeletons of Gliteau--his
skeleton when he was boy. his skele-
ton before he shot Garfield, and his
skeleton after he was hanged.
Harry Erskine' who succeeded
Henry Dundas, afterward Lord Mel
vile, as lord advocate of Scotland,
happening to have female client of
the name of Tickle, defendent in an
action. commenced his speech in the
following humorous strain; "Tickle,
my client, the defendent my lord"
The auditors, amused with the oddity
of the speech, were almost driven into
Mysteries by the judge reply ing: Tickle
her yourself, Harry. You are az ahlo
to 40 it as l."
Twas past twelve at midnight when
be rolled home and prepared TO concoct
some story for the lateness of his re-
turn. She, however was awake, and
with sharp scented nose detected the
odor of gin What smell is that, my
dear ?" she remarked. "Cloves, my
love" But the other odor, SIR
"Allspice, my sweet" "But smell
something else" "Oh, that's CHINA
mon" But 1 am certain that Isn't
spice at all " "Oh, that's an apple
ate just before l came in" We'll l
should think" she replied, that if
you'd just taken good drink of brandy
before you came in and eaten ham
sandwich you would have had all the
ingredients necessary for a good mince
pie" He sighed as he dropped to
sleep and murmured that he'd done it
if be bsdd't been afraid of bad dreams.