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suet is so far in excess of the butter-making demand that 

 tons of it are annually used in the North for lubricating 

 machinery, we need not fear that anything less objectionable 

 i.e., more costly to purify will be used as a butter 

 substitute. 



LUMINOUS PAINT. 



THE sun is evidently going out of fashion, and is more and 

 more excluded from "good society" as our modern substi- 

 tute for civilization advances. "Serve him right!" many 

 will say, for behaving so badly during the last two summers. 

 The old saw, which says something about. "early to bed 

 and early to rise" is forgotten: we take "luncheon" at 

 dinner-time, dine at supper-time, make " morning" calls 

 and goto "morning" concerts, etc., late in the afternoon, 

 say ' ' Good morning" until 6 or 7 P. M. ; and thus, by 

 sleeping through the bright hours of the morning, and 

 waking up fully only a little before sunset, the demand for 

 artificial light becomes almost overwhelming. Not only do 

 we require this during a longer period each day, but we 

 insist upon more and more, and still more yet, during that 

 period. 



The rushlight of our forefathers was superseded by an 

 exotic luxury, the big-flame candle made of Russian tallow, 

 with a wick of Transatlantic cotton. Presently this luxu- 

 rious innovation was superseded by the "mould candle ;" 

 the dip was consigned to the kitchen, and the bloated aris- 

 tocrats of the period indulged in a pair of candlesticks, 

 alarming their grandmothers by the extravagance of burn- 

 ing two candles on one table. Presently the mould candle 

 was snuffed out by the composite ; then came the trans- 

 lucent pearly paraffin caudle, gas light, solar lamps, mod- 

 erator lamps, and paraffin lamps. Even these, with their 

 brilliant white flame from a single wick, are now insufficient, 

 and we have duplex and even triplex wicks to satisfy our 

 demand for glaring mockeries of the departed sun. 



Some are still living who remember the oil lamps in 



