Show funeral CANDLES there I 1 isa s a quarry about twelve miles to the west of ed engburg h in the immediate neighborhood of a picturesque group of trap rocks known as the sinny binny crags rybe the quarry itself is is of white sandstone but there tests rests led in injety bety above it a thick bed of dart dark colored shall shale over which the hot trap imp mut must mu st t of old have flowed aej and which was wan subjected in in consequence to a sort ot of natural distillation 1 3 he be distilled substance shut very close ly up found its way into the vertical crevices of the bed of white stone beneath and in in these crevices the ners rs now find it le exists as a light waxy matter varying in color in in the mass from that of gamboge to that of f dark k amber welts at nearly the same temperature as bees wax which it equals in hardness and burns bums with a bright flame and many years ago the ners rs employed a the work struck by its peculiar qualities learned to convert it into very dark colored candles which though rather smoky gave not bad light and which were 0 oc purchased of them as objects of curiosity but much oftener consumed in in their c trages there however evert the thing rested and in in vain for ought that the scientific world profited by it has nature distilled the shale or the ners rs converted the proceeds of the thedis dis til lation into candles candle not many years since however some one without taking the hint bint fion ilbe binny quarry thought of distil dastil ing some of the of the oolite are exceedingly rich in in an inflatable mn amable substance resolving into gas and tar which once existed as the frame work of unum innumerable erable ammonites and belemnites belim ultes and which yielded when subjected to the retort oils naph th asand a wax like the paucity of its chemical which beautiful candles are no degree inferior to those of wax and ex works for their manufacture by di distillation have been of apte established among the Kimme kimmeridge ridge of england in obrown our own country similar works are now in in operation among the of the coal measure only a few miles distant from where nature had carried on herr her bv means of the molt entrap untold ages before the hill mineral legally acdal a coal in scotland and legally a shale in prussia and which the lessees lessels can work here because it is ts a coal derives derived its chief value vallie from the proceeds which it yields in d st illation Naph tiia and carofine par para ofine flue to the five pounds fifteen shillings shilling can be extracted from every ton and from the beautiful snowwhite snow white candles can be manufactured noy nay more wonderful still thes snowwhite snow white candles can be made out of dark irish turf and extensive works axe are at present ia th the course coun of erection for convert 4 ing the mac black bogs of kildare nto into marafine pa candle were we in remarking that the process of alltus rates admirably the general process of economic science and he art were the honey bees to brike work t tomorrow to morrow we vye could now do excellently well in the article of wax candles without them so long a an there vi dipre ere bogs in ireland sanles in the th coal mea suns or the or brown browa mineral iBeral oa at Tor batie hill edingburg |