The Use Of Petroleum

Boston Advertlser. Thore was consumed or lost, in ono way or another duriug' each day of the year 1884, an average of 66,000 barrels of petroleum. Ilere la the basis for somo ontertainiög mathemalical work the aim in view being to dotarmiuo how long the oil supply of this country is likoly to last. If 25,000,000 barrels aro consumed each yearj there must bo a hole of considerablo sizo left in the earth's interior, and as tho oil yiclding rogion ia not, comparatively speaking, very extensivo, this liólo mnst ultímate ly represent more than a minor f raction of what was once the seemingly inex haustiblo source of oil supply. 1, twenty years irom now, the oil wells fail, their loss will not bo tho blow it once woald havo been. Eiectricity has made oil a convenionco, not a necessity, and, long boforo the wells run dry, in genuity will probably have placed the "new light at tho command of tho poor and issolatod, as well as tho rich nnA tho crowded.