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Show A Fragraut, Ilose-Colored OIL A Bowling Green (Ky.) corre-Sionduit corre-Sionduit of the Phlladelihia Timet says: ("A well of julueral oil was; dlscocniI near here "yesterday by' Ebenezer CaUicart, owner of a truck garden, while boring for water. It Is so clear as to be nearly transparent, trans-parent, ot a beautiful pale pink color, and while entirely odorless when cold, if heated highly emits a most delicious odor, resembling somewhat nttar of roses, though more delicate and subtle. Au experiment ex-periment was tried with a small quantity to test Its burning properties, proper-ties, when it was found to burn slowly but steadily, giving a soft clear, lambent tlame, shedding a faint rose-colored light, and filling the air with a penetrating fragrance. When the oil was consumed, at the bottom of the vessel was found a deposit of a number of hard, mlnutd particles, looking like gralni offline etonecolured sand, which exploded ouJx-ing placed in water, with incredible in-credible violence when the size of Uie particles is taken intoconsidera- Uon. The oil and its precipitate ara now being carefully analyzed and exir!mented with by the chemists here, whoe opinion as to their properties pro-perties ii being anxiously waited for, for tho beauty of Uie light the oil gi ves, its delicious 'perfume, and tlie highly explosive quality of tho precipitate left all seem to point to a discovery of immense value to the scientific If not to tho commercial world." .Kr. ! |