The Volcano lubricator., December 16, 1873, Image 2

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Vol ca n o Lubri cato r .
GEORGE P. SASG3UT,
PUCLTSIIEK. ? PROPRIETOR j
Volcano Ji'c.s it J'ft.
TUESDAY DEC. ! f\ 1S73
OIL SZWG.
Modoc production continues to fall
off very rapidly.
Further developments establish the
loss bv the Greece City iire at
ooo. ? [Sand Pump.
Those who are '?short" of cil fori
this year's delivery. have every indi j
cat:on of coining to ^rie ".
The (|H?<t?0!i of the hour seems to i
he. are the large fourth ?r.t*.d spouters
three fourths water and one-fourth
amher oil?
The oil produced in "Western Penn
sylvania the pa** vrr.r, it is estimated,
would fill a canal feet wide at tl e
top, 12 at the bot'om, ~ deep, an 1 70!
miles long.
If there is r.o demand for refined cil.
it is just the time to buy, as the man
in Philadelphia said the other day
when he purchased ico,ooo barrels i:;
one lot.
If the production of the Butler Dis
trict is falling oflT at the rate of qoo
barrels per day, how manv days will i' 1
ta>(e for the market to rtach a dollar a
barrel at the wells?.
If the big spouters in Modoc and
Millerstown are beautiful things of the
pa*t. the only place to drill, after the
fourth sand delusion is over, will be
somewhere south-west of Butler.
The Sheriff" of Butler countv sold
last Saturday eighty-two oil wells. ?
Nineteen of those were knocked down
for seventy-two dollars. At that rate,
every man'in Butler ccukl have an oil
well of his own.
The producers and tiie trade jener- |
ally are awaking to the astounding j
fact that fourth sand wells are not j
near as prolific or profitable as their
fond hopes anticipated. Ilenrc asud- j
den and healthy advance in the mar
ket.? [Herald.
* ? - ? ?
Frrm Petrolia (Ort.) Sentinel.
Weekly Oi! Report.
Another week of storm has consid
erably interfered with out door busi
ness, especially going hard with team
sters, for, notwithstanding a sufficien
cy of snow for sleighing, the want of
a hard bottom causes teams with heavy
loads to sink in the mud. whenever off j
the ties or planks. Unless we get a!
thavr and hard freezing, it will he dills - j
cult to operate in the woods or low j
ground. The condition of the roads j
and the depression in the oil market !
make the present prospect dubious. ? j
However, the hope of the introduction
of oil upon railroads, raises the droop- |
ing spirits of oil men, and gives hope j
for an advance in price and a renewal I
of development. We are now likely j
to be thrown upon cur own resources: j
that, no doubt, will call out the best I
efforts of inventive genius. Our Pcnn- 1
svlvania neighbors appear to be grad
ually descending to the bottom, and
may then have a resurrection.
Very little is said just now about
new wells, and by general consent
"shut down drilling"' (the cry in the
Pennsylvania Oil Regions) appears to
have taken deep root in this country.
The only scattered wsils drilling are
those of "Messrs. Perkins, Cooley
Gleeson, adjoining the celebrated Lan
caster well, Durham creek, and that of
Mr. Sanson, a little to the south, Mur
ray territory, both put'ing in casing,
and Mr. Lancey's new well, southeast,
upon Crescent property, in lower rock,
with fair show. Mr. McDonald's
fourth well is just completed and test
ing, with a fair prospect. The Van
Tuvl well, ready for surface. The
Fletcher well, drilling in lower rock,
with show. The new well of Mr. P.
McGarvey. near Pittsburgh well, Pit
hole, in I?".rr*r rock, Messrs. Fish Si
Townsend's No. 4 i> in lower soap
stone. The new well ot Messrs. Peat,
Johnson & tiurd, near Drader well,
northwest, is somewhat delayed in
drilling by having broken two ?;nker.-;
rock \ ei y hard.
A correspondent asks us the follow- j
ing question: "Is the letter a in Lat
in always pronounced_!ong or not?"
Neither. It is simply pronounced
and that is ail. We cannot imagine
what induced you to suppose that it
was pronounced !ike the word "lon^"
or the word "not." The letter a
beais no sort of .resemblance to cither
of the monosyllables in question, and
It would he as reasonable to give it j
ihe same sound as to pronounce the- i
letter c like the word "metempsvcho- !
sis," or the figure 4 :;s it it were spcli |
ed "wheelbarrow," iiutoad ot four. I
Do not attempt these innovations up- :
on the Latin language. It i.-> a dead ;
language and cannot defend itself;
v," 1 10 attack a corpte is cowaidiy. '
fi2L? Y0U.R3ELYE3.
Manv bo* ?> and _? i i" ! -? make a lailure !
in !i!e because i: ? . d> not k am to |
help themselves. They depend o:. j
father and mc: !;*??". even t > 1 as;-; or
their hats and lind tl e:r pi:; ?? ? ;
When they become men .?n?? * u.nen. .
they nil! depend on husbands and i
?.vivos to do the same iliiiiv*. "A n:iil to
hang a I'M un." ?;< id r.a old n.an cl Sol
yiars, "is worth evsrything tu a bo v.' j
lie had been "through the mill," a
penple say, so thai he knew. His
mother had a nail for hhn when 1st
was ;i bo_. ? "a nail to hang h:s hat on,
and nothing ci.-e. li was ?"Henry's
naii" from January to j unitary, year in
and year out. atul no other member o! ;
the family was allowed to appr;?. r:;.'.
it for stnv purpose whatever, Ii tne
broom by chance was : u:ig ihtreon.i
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or an apron or coat, it was soon re
moved, because thai nai! was "'o hang
Henry's baton." And that nail c;dl
I much for Henry; it helped make him I
| what lie was ir. manhood ? a carelul.
sympathetic, orderly man. at home,
and abroad; on his farm and in h's]
house, lie never wanted another to
| do what he could do for himself.
Young folks are apt to think that
I certain things, good it: themselves, are
not honorable. To be a blacksmith or
a bootmaker, to work on a farm or
drive a team, is beneath, their dignity
os compared with being a merchant,
or practicing medicine or law. i h;>
rut ok is an enemv to -uecess and hap
piness. No necessary labor is dis I
creditable, it i> never dishonorable to j
!>e useful. It is beneath n<> one s dig- j
nitv to earn bread by the sweat of the ,
brow. When boys who have such I
: false notions of dignity become men,
thev are ashamed to help themselves
as they ought and for want of this ,
quality they live and nie unhotiored.
Frving to save their dignity, they lo?e j
I Mere is a fact of a very successful j
merchant. V, hen he began business ^
for himself, he carried his wares from j
shop to shop. At length h;s business
meea-ed to such tin extent that he
hired a rorni at Marlboro Hotel, in j
Roston, during the business -eason.
and thither the merchants, having been
duty t.o'.iiiou. would repair to make
:w rebates. Anions all l.is customers
there was on!v one man who woulo
carry to his store t!ie goods he ha;,
purchased, i he buyers asked to have j
their goods cnrricd. ami often this ;
manufacturer would carry them him- j
self. Hut there w.v-> one merchant, j
and the largest buyer c! the whole
numbc. . who was not ashamed to he i
seen etrrving a ease of goods through
the streets. '.Sometimes he would pur ,
chase tour cases, and he would say.
"Now, I will take two, and you take
two. and we will carry them right over |
to the store." So the manufacturer
and the merchant often went through j
the strec's of Boston tjuite heavily I
loaded. This merchant, of all the
number who went to Marlboro 1 1 ? >t o ! I
for their purchases, succeeded in busi
ness. He became a weait.iy man when >
all others failed. The manufacturer,
who was not ashamed to help himsell.j
Is now living? one of the wealthy
men of Massachusetts, ready to aid,
by his generous gilts, every good ob
ject that comes along, a:ul honored by
ail who know him.
You have oiten heard and read the
maxim, "Clod helps those who help
themselves." Is it not true?? [Mer
ry's Museum.
PETROLEUM FOR FUSL.
This is a question which lias agitat
ed the minds of inventors ever since
the introduction of pc'roleur.i as a
marketable article. Every sort of
conceivable device has been brought
into requisition for producing perfect
combustion, and the scientific world
to-day i- in possession of all the facts
relating thereto. It is not the lac!; cl
mechanical means of ensuring a per
fect combustion which has prevented
its introduction for purposes of fuel,
but it is simply u ving to the wide
fluctuations in the petroleum market.
To-day it is lift.v cents a barrel at the
wells, in a few months it may be Ij.co
per barrel. The apparatus lor <_ "i
suniing it is, however, so very simple
and inexpensive that when oil touche
a figure us low as it is to-day the sur j
plus product might, with economy, he j
lied to t.:: purpose, uiul when the !
price again rises, the apparatus could
be removed anu ejai substituted. The
latest intelligence upon the subject
conies this time from Canada, where it
appears a man named Religliine tried j
an experiment c.:i locomotive belong- j
ing to the Canada Southern Railway,
with an average consumption of four
gallons of petroleum per mile. The
engine steamed quite freely and m;.Je
?_;oik1 time with a train of thirty cars.
This would be about a barrel for every '
ten miles. The most simple contri
vance for buruing petroleum is cither
by means of a jet of ateain or com
l>re sed air parsed at right angles over
tim oriiicc -i .'i P'i'-' in *uc!i a manner
that the i'.i v. ill !>c sucked up a:ui
tbiown i..\> l lie furnace in the for.n ol ;
a (sue sj ray, where if properly adjust
ed it will undergo pcrfcct co nbustion- >
T!;e enst of the apparatus is trilling.
L-t ilio*? who thin!: it economical try j
it. ? r I !en:Ut.
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Quarreling Choirs.
Win* do church choirs always qunr- J
rel?
Somebody quotes il.c trite old say - 1
in*;, by way of reply: "Two of a trade
never agree."
That is nonsense. Ministers, ant!
lawyers, ; :i.! doctors, ar.d mechanics,
an I riry-u?M!.:- dealers ? in f.ct, men of
every trade a id profession under the
suu, a-^ocia'e themselves toge'her for
business ; urposes and live peaceably,
hut if anybody knows of a church
choir which has gone on steadily and
amiably for ten years, he ha* discov
ered the greatest wonder of the age.
The members of the choir arc gen*
j erj.Ily "professors of religion." Each
one believes that on him, or her, de
pends the whole success of the sing
j ing. Each one believe-: that if he, or
she, were to have influenza and col
lapse, the singing would fall through.
Gcncrall)' sneaking, about every
third Sabbath, there will he no sing
ing, fcccwiisc, to speak mildlv, the choir
have ha;! a little misunderstanding.
The hass ihinks the tenor sings tco
much ir the opera style, and the tenor
I hates the old-fashioned way the bass
| of dragging his quarter notes and
[ scurring over his rests.
if the alto breaks down, she lays it
to the way the soprano has of shriek
ing when she readies a hi:;h tone; and
the soprano declares her voice will be
j ruined if the alto gives the shirred j
passages so much time.
Each member of the choir has n sis
ter Jane, or a brother Tom, who could
do so much better at the alto, or the ,
| tenor, than those members who sing j
?the parts in question; and whenever j
there is an opportunity o." saying it,
will remark:
"Oh! you ought to hear my sister
Jennie sing that air! it i& io splend
id!"
The tenor is sure that the bass sharps
his flats, and the bass is equally sure
that the tenor flats his sharps.
Usually, when a "misunderstanding"
occurs, there are two cliques ? and the
one remains silent while the other
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sings.
The si!ent clique wonders, in a loud
whisper, "if that is the tune the old
cow died of;" and then they crack
peanuts, and chew peppermints ? and
after the services are over, there is a
lively quarrel, and in consequence no
singing next Sunday.
it has alwaxs been so; and we sup
pose it always will he so ? but <ve do
wish we knew the reason why.
Kate Thorx.
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Our uil friend Clyhammer had a
ha hi! of walking in his sleep, and when
he visited his father-in-law's house one
night last January, he determined to
fallen a cord to his 'eg. and to tie the
other end (of the cord; not the other
end of his leg) to something, so that
the jerk Mould wake him if he attempt
ed a somnambulistic prowl. Cly ham
mer saw a pole projecting above the
window-sill, on the outside, and it oc
curred to him that it would he a good
tiling to tie the cotd :o that. So he
did, and thru turned in and went to
sleep. The pole was really one end of
a ladder. Ci_) hammer did not walk
any that night, but about six o'clock
in the morning, while he was still a
slecp, the workmen came after the lad
der. As thev tried tt? take it down,
they ob.-crved that it stuck. !".it, think
ing it was frozen, they gave it a terrif
ic pull, and the next minute an able
bodied American citizen, named Cly
i.aninu r, dret- jd in an unbleached
muslin night-shirt and em 'racing a
bolstei, might have been seen emerg
ing suddenly from a second story win
dow, feet foremost. At first, Clyhatn
mer thought there had been an earth
quake; but when the workmen, not
seeing him, began to move down the
street, with the ladder on thrir shoul
ders a : i Cb hammer t'ar glinvj on the
end, will: one leg held by a ; t ri r, and
his garments trailing in the delicious
morning breeze, l.e grasped the situa
tion and coinine. ced to reason with
ihe workmen and to present the mat
ter to them in different lights, ;t:id to
swear and insist on being released. ?
When they got him home he had elev
en kinds cf rheumatism and all the
known varieties of neuralgia. lie
riveU himself now to the bedstead at j
nights. ? [Max Adlcr.
Pennsylvania' - annual production of
minerals nearly equals thai of ail the
oth- r .States and Territories combined.
In the last year reported by the censes
her mines yielded $76,208,3^6 worth cf
minerals, and all the rest of the cou::?
try ? 76,31/}, 50.) wortii.
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