Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1888 — Where Ignorance Is Not Bliss. [ARTICLE]

Where Ignorance Is Not Bliss.

Emily—Oh, Arthur, how cruel! See that poor worm wriggle ! Arthur— I That’s all right. I cut him in two first, so he’s perfectly dead, only he hasn’t discovered it.— Harpter’s Magazine. After experiments on the relative merits of castor oil and of olive oil as lubricants, the Italian Admiralty has ordered that the exposed parts of ships’ machinery be lubricated exclusively with castor oil, and that mineral oils be used for cylinder and similar lubrications.