Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1879 — Petroleum. [ARTICLE]

Petroleum.

American petroleum oil is now used as a sort of artificial illulnination in nearly all parts of the world. It goes along with rum, powder and muskets to the savage tribes of Africa, and the mud houses on the banks of the rivers of the inferior are illuminated with it.