Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1891 — Oil from Smoke and Gases. [ARTICLE]

Oil from Smoke and Gases.

In Scotland there is a company which pays a certain amount yearly to a number of iron works for the privilege of collecting the smoke and gases from the blast furnaces. These are passed through several miles of wrought-iron tubing, and as the gases cool there is deposited a considerable yield of oil; one plant is reported to yield 25,000 gallons of furnace oil per week. Oil thus obtained is distilled, and a considerable quantity of creosol, phenol, and some other substances are procured from it. The people of America who have sat under the spell of Edwin Booth's masterly aeting certainly hope that the reports that he has lost his mind are not true. It is bad enough for his health to be in such condition that he leave the stage, without the additional misfortune of a clouded i ntellect. Sometimes there is a good deal of pride in telling how big a sinner yon used to be