Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1895 — Combustion. [ARTICLE]

Combustion.

When a subtance combines with oxygen heat is evolved, and if the union is rapid and fussy light may be emitted as well. The burning of a candle seems -to be a very different thing from the rusting of a nail; but in truth the latter process is simply a mild and dilatory species of combustion. It is really a little conflagration, though it does not afford sufficient heat to singe the wings of a moth or sufficient illumination to enable one to read a line. “I can’t have whistling at the table, Mr. Slocum,” said the boarding-house keeper. “I thought you said yesterday you liked to hear a man whistle at his work?” replied the boarder, as he made mother ineffectual attempt at cutting his piece of beefsteak—Yonkers Statesman. things may be righted some day above, But here they’re wrong, it is plain to| see; The girl that loves me I do not love, And the girl I love, O, she loves not; me. V 1 -Boston Courier. 1