Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-05-09
THE COMING OIL AGE.

! Boston Transcript.
The English are felicitating them
selves on the possession of oil fields
which will throw the Pennsylvania oil
wells into the shade. AS Mr.. Charles
Marvin, a British authority on this sub
iect, expressed it in recent lecture be-
fore the Royal Engineers, Thanks to
the Burmese oil fields, we are in posi-
/ tion to light all Asia and fuel all Asia;
and in Canada we have Il petroleum sup
ply sufficient to illuminate all America
when the United States wells run dry"
I The Burmese oil wells, like the Russian
wells (Russia produced 200,000,000 gal
Ions of kerosene in 1887, yield heavy
| oil, and will not burn in ordinary lamps
made for the lighter American oil. Not
much is known about the quality of the
oil produced in the new Canadian fields
of the Athahasca and the river Mack
enZie.
Both of the Burmese and the Athab-
asca fields, whatever their eventual pro-
ductiOns may amount to, evidently will
not very soon come into competition
with the Standard Oil Company, as they
are quite remote from means of cOmmu-
nication. One point advanced by Mr..
Maroni, in recent pamphlet, is inter
esting. He says that in London gas is
giving place to oil in ordinary lighting,
and quotes the Chairman of the South
Metropolitan Gas Company, who tells
his Directors that petroleum is more
formidable competitor than the electric
light. Certain English towns, in their
public lighting, are giving up gas and
adopting oil. In general large London
hotels and offices electric have been re-
placed by large power petroleum lamps.
He predicts that London will be lit
with oil again" and that Great Britain
will be the "boss" of the coming oil age
HOT WATER,
New York Tribune.
"The soothing effects of hot water are
not fully appreciated, said a physician
| the other day. 81 recommend it to the
many of my patients who suffer from
insomnia, produced by nervous irrita-
ton of the stomach, and also for certain
forms of indigestion. Many of them
object to it, at first, but soon came to
like it, and are generally much benefit
ed by it. \ glass OF hot water now and
then will work no appreciable good, of
course, but steady habit of hot water
drinking once formed, and sustained
regularly for few months, works Won
ders with certain constitutions. | gen
orally recommend its use just before 60
ing to bed. 1t is great soother. The
captain of an immigrant steamship
sailed on as surgeon for one season
demonstrated its quieting influence
once, when he turned hot stream from
the boiler hose on a crowd of fighting
immigrants who had taken possession
of the hold and deiel the ships crew
u healed those infiamed spirits, tell |
you, though the application was only
external.
MAMMA Ito her little bOyl-"NOw Ben I
ME, if you II be good and go to sleep, |
mamma II give you one of DIR. Ayers |
nice sugar coated CathaTtic Pills, next /
time You need medicine" Bennie, smil- |
ing sweetly, dropped off to sleep at once.
THE VERDICT UNANIMOUS.
W. d. Suit, druggist, Bippus, Ind, tes-
titles; l can recommend Electric Bitters
as the very hest remedy. Every bottle /
sold has given relief in every case, One /
man took six bottles, and was cured rheu- /
matism of ten years standing" Abra- /
ham Hare, druggist, Bellville o., atlirmS:
"The best selling medicine ! have ever
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