Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1893 — Coal Oil Credit. [ARTICLE]

Coal Oil Credit.

Coal >il holds first place as au illuminator. For application to farm woodwork of all kinds crude petroleum has no peer for cheapness and iuiperviousness to weather Its value in keeping heavy wagon wheel’s sound and preventing need of tire-sitting is well known. Mixed with Venetian red, durability and an air of permanency are bestowed on farm buildings. It is .used as machine oil or dilutant, as insect exterminator in hog and hen houses, and in “ kerosene emulsion” for spraying vegetable pests. Vaseline, a product oi coal oil, is employed by many as a lubricator for carriage-axles, to soften harness, shoes, the hands, etc., and is better than most liniments or ointments for chilblains, sores and wounds on man or beast. It is especially healing for galls and bruises when mixed with 5 per cent, of its bulk of tannin. And now it is recommended in place of lather in shaving. Its use here is not imaginary, as it will enable a razor to cut at once and keenly. (Its only fault i 3 in permitting the razor to take the outer skin of the face also if the beard be light.) The razor-strop should be kept moist with it. Asa “by-product,” vasaline is among the cheapest manufactured substances.—[New York Tribune.