Little Falls transcript., 1886-04-02
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Notwithstanding the great improve.
ments made in the methods Of lighting
since the time when our ancestors were
content to sit by the Pickering light OF
an old fashioned tallow candle and read
the bible, the 'Pilgrim's Progress or
the religious weekly paper. great
number of candles are sold every year. It
was thought, when kerosene oil was in.
troduced and finally came to be gener-
ally used, that candles would be drug
on the market Later, when gas came
into use, it was concluded that the de-
mand for oil would soon amount to
nothing. Still later, when the electric
light was taken up as a means of illu-
minating the darkness, some were bold
enough to predict that gas would ere
long become thing of the past. But,
as matter of fact, more gas is used
now than ever before on account of the
increased number of uses for it.
The production and sale of kerosene
! oil is enormous. And the demand for
candles has appreciably increased du-
ring the past ten or fifteen years. They
are used more extensively for church
and other religious purposes, and for
dinner parties. Plumbers require a
great many of them. Nearly every
housekeeper has candle in the house
to light her way down cellar or up
stairs. A great many burn them in
their sleepingroom in preference to the
kerosene oil, especially in the summer
time at seaside resorts. They are more
largely used for festival days, and a
great many welEto-do persons purchase
many of the finest for ornamentation.
Their use for dinner parties especially
is increasing.
A millionaire's grocer in New York
recently purchased for his use at fash
ionable dinner party twelve dozen of
candles worked in beautiful forms and
having truly artistic appearance. In
fact, the decoration and ornamentation
of candles has come to be quite an art.
The best candles for ornamentation are
of pure beeswax. When the wax is hot
they are worked in very beautiful shape
and ornamented with a great degree or
nicely. lhe wax when hot is drawn up
by nippers into great variety of forms
and colored red, green, blue, yellow,
purple, etc. The wax is drawn up by
nippers in the form of flowers, fruit,
green leaves. etc. Some of the candles
thus worked are purchased solely to
look at. These beautiful candles, burn
ing at a dinner party, either on the ta-
bic OF in the chandeliers arranged ex-
pressly for them, present a very pleas.
ing appearance. A great.many of these
are produced in western New York.
| Among the various kinds of candles
now sold may be mentioned parafine,
sperm, stcaline, adamantine, ta1low,
and beeswax. The last named are
cheaper now than they have been in ter
years, although the demand for them is
increasing. Beeswax, when hot, car
be worked into different shapes bette,
than the other kinds, which are com
paratively brittle. In many place.
bees are now grown simply for the wa,
which they make, and many beeswa,
manufacturers take care of and feee
their bees in such a way as to produce
the most possible and best wax Th'
: bee that lives on clover blossoms, it i
generally conceded, generally produce
the best wax; and it is stated that ther,
are some persons so expert in the bust
ness that they can, by tasting the wax
tell what the bees have fed on. Som,
of the bees titus grown are very costly
instances being cited where they ar
, worth more than 81 each. The worl
of breeding and training them has be
, come great industry.-Provide'ec
Journal.