Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1885 — Kerosene in Cold Weather. [ARTICLE]

Kerosene in Cold Weather.

An oil inspector offers this explanation of why kerosene oil lamps do not give as good light in cold weather as at other times: “Wisconsin test prime light oils will thicken with the cold at temperatures varying from zero to 20 degrees above. Freezing separates the particles of paraffine from the remainder of the oil. They are attracted by the wick and fill the pores, destroying it& capillary power and increasing its tendency to incrust and char in burning. The best kerosene oils for burning in cold weather are water white—colorless—oils of light gravity.”— Scientific Exchange. We may always learn and know more, if we choose, by working on; but the pleasure is, I think, to humble people. to know that the journey is endless, the treasure inexhaustible, in watching the cloud still march before thfem with its summitless pillar, and being sure that to the end of time and to the length of eternity the mysteries of its infinity will still open farther and farther, their dimness being the sigh and necessary adjunct of their inexhaustibleness.—Buskin.