FIRES THAT LIGHT THEMSELVES
Damp lampblack will ignite from the sun's rays. The same can be said of cotton waste moist with lard or other animal oil. Under certain conditions, lampblack and a little oil or water will ignite spontaneously. Nitric acid and charcoal create spontaneous combustion. New printer’s ink on paper, when in contact with a steam pipe, will quickly ignite. Boiled linseed oil and turpentine in equal parts on cotton waste will ignite in a few hours under a mild beat. Iron chips, filings or turnings should not be stored in a shop in wooden boxes. The oily waste which is not infrequently thrown among them adds to the danger of fire from this source. The sweepings from the machine shop, if kept on hand, should never be placed over iron shavings. This mass of disintegrated iron is enough to incite heat and combustion. Iron and steel filings and turnings, when mixed with oil, will ignite spontaneously after becoming carbonised.
A wafer tower is being built at Freeport, Ill.
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