The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, September 28, 1892, Page 5

a od / all the myraids of bacteria about us in a pio gsirrnernna uct a e « more wholesome by distillation or other RR a a A On IMPURITIES IN WATER. Something About a Common Source of Dis- ease in Our Large Cities. Every one should understand that of earth and air and water, the gre: - jority are harmless. With oy pao ceptions, the bacteria which can do us harm are those, and those alone, which come from the bodies of men and ani- mals afflicted with disease. So far as water is concerned—and the same ap- plies to ice—it is only Sewage pollution or stagnant filth which we have to fear andshun. Good, pure, uncontaminated water, and ice made from such water either by nature or by man, are entire- ly wholesome, and they are not made purifying procedure—they are not more wholesome when germ free. So in the manufacture of ice, if the water which is used be contaminated and impure, the preliminary distillation is of primary importance for the salu- brity of the ice; but if the water be asst distillation is only valuable or the technical purpose of removi the dissolved air. pages See e In point of fact, most of the artificial ice which the writer has examined— and there have been many and abun- dant samples from various sources col- lected, and for a perio¢ of many months —do contain bacteria in varying num- bers. The preliminary distillation, if carefully done, destroys any disease- producing germ forms which might be present in the water used. But a cer- tain number of the more hardy harm- less forms may be carried bodily with the steam into the condensers. In most of the ice manufactories the distilled water is filtered through char- coal before it is run into the freezing- cans, for the purpose of removing cer- tain organic compounds which have come in the process of distillation. But these charcoal beds afford breeding- places for such germs as may have es- caped the ordeal of the heat. ‘he writer has repeatedly found that while the distilled water before passing on to the filter beds was very nearly germ free, the nuthber was increased a thousand- fold on leaving them. Sd far as the salubrity of the natural a8 compared with the artificial ice is concerned, we may rest assured that, as regards bacteria, one is just as whole- * per. I'man Americ tee ata oe raat poe “Tf you were a F ander,’ almost water is iinpure from sewage el shrieked the cashier, ‘you ought to other unwholesome thing, then know the value of a bank of England . note.” the natural ice is never fit for domestic use. If water is impure, the processes of artiticial ice-making, if 'carefully performed, are capable of furnishing even from it a product which 1s harm- less and wholesome, whether it be ab- solutely germ free or not; for absolute freedom from germs—if these are not disease-producing germs—is neither necessary nor especially desirable. It is not bacteria, but disease-producing bacteria, which make of practical significance the invisible flora of either water or ice. The examinations of the artificial ice made from the distilled Croton water have shown that when it does contain a few bacteria these are not of many different species, as is the case with the undistilled Croton, but they are almost all of one single species, and this a hardy, harmless form which multiplies readily and rapidly in pure water. Innumerable analyses have shown that water does not purge itself wholly in the act of freezing, as was formerly believed, from disease germs which may have come into it with human waste. This has been specifically and repeatedly shown to be true for that most dreaded and fatal sewage germ, the bacillus of typhoid fever. The process of oxidation and sedimen- tation which aforetime was demon- strated by mostexact chemical analyses to be capable of freeing water in lakes and running streams from organic com- pounds abundant in sewage, is still urged by belated scientists and frantic tradesmen here and there in justifica- tion of the use of ice cut on sewage- polluted waters. But these facts regarding the organic products of decomposition have very little | favor. Upon parting with the girl he bearing, in the new light, upon! placed a ring on her finger, saying: the actual producers of | disease | «yfonarchy, when I am president of the —the germscthemselves. For these | tnited States send this ring to me with are not subject to the same purifying agencies, are not demonstrable by chem- ical methods, and are not removed frem sewage-polluted lakes and streams within the limits which chemical ex- periences have led us to regard as safe. Sedimentation does not remove many harmful germs from sewage-polluted waters. Dilution does diminish the chances to incur disease for every con- sumer. Many individuals are, at fa- vored times, practically invulnerable to the incursious of these tiny foes. But. after all, it is safe to say that in thick- ly inhabited regions sewage-polluted water is not fit for men todrink without purification, no matter how fast and far ‘the river runs, or how wide the lake into which the sewage drains. With the size of the lake and the volume of the river, the chances of harm decreases, of course, but they stay chances still where none need te be. AS our coun- becomes more thickly settled and = the problam involved supplies are be- coming nfore and more urgent and dif- our cities larger, th in pure water and ice ficult. easily compe’ ees. : as Aa natural ice melts More | not used to tramping up hill and down han the artificial, and is in this | and over rough roads and fields) Make or things being equal, cheaper. | them stretch out under the trees or on u ry claims are made for the ar-| the river bank an hour every day, or 4 The writer has tested the | more if you can. and they will gain by a} pidity of melting of the} py it.”—N. Y. Times nd artificial ice irae haa —It’s strange how crowded the thor- iety o! ce an t ‘se - greatest variety in thedark, | oughfare looks to the man that’s chas ieces and in large, ht, in digused light ‘Fhe manufacture of ice and its mar- r which in many regions oe Lesqaeirn those of the nat- ural product have simplified this phase Other things being the householder de- atural or the artificial upon the climate market price of The natural ice is just as tificial when it comes “s tae orees. It is claimed by and inthe , in hot places and in cool, and can find no absolute constant difference | in the rapidity of melting. One seems | to be just about as durable as the | other.—T. Mitchell Prudden, in Har- | per’s Magazine. | A SUSPICIOUS DRUMMER. | _ He Was Afraid to Trust the Bank of En- gland. “I heard a good one about Billy | Tompkins,” said one of a group of com- mercial travelers in the Continental hotel. “You know Billy travels for Fluellen & Co.” ie Amurmur anda reminiscent assent | was the response. | “Well, sir,” continued the first spea er, “you know what a hustler he i: Did some slashing business last fall and | the firm gave him a check fora bonus | and told him to go and take a trip to} Europe. Well, sir, I set out to have a real good time and he had it. While he was in London he took lunch one day at the famous tavern in the ci called the ‘Ship and Turtle” wh sovereign just about sees you through | your lunch and he Limbibed a little | too much turtle punch. | “When he left there he was run out | of small change, and he thought he would play big and go to the bank of England and get a twenty-pound note redeemed in gold. “That's the way I'll change it, quoth he. Sointo the dingy old building he strode, and, putting his twenty-pound the cashier's window, said: ‘Give me gold for that, will you?” “Certainly, sir,’ the cashier, ‘just put your name on the back of it, please.” “Then Billy, tipsywise. saw for some fun, and replied: “My name on it! What for?" | ““Oh, mere formality — not with- drawn, you know. ‘Tell how it came back to bank. Customary thing.’ “Pl be darned if I'll sign it,’ says Billy. ‘You don’t catch me going around indorsing any corporation's pa- per in this reckless style.’ ‘Why, my dear sir,’ gasped the astounded cashier, ‘this is a bank of England note, good for its face value the world over. “Don't care, said Billy, with tipsy gravity; ‘I'm not familiar with the financial condition of the bank of En- gland, and hanged if I indorse its pa- s. note down before said chanee “Well, persisted Billy, ‘what do you you want me to indorse it for? I in- dorse it, don’t I, if I sign my name to the back” ““Great heavens!’ ejaculated the eashier. goaded to a condition of frenzy by Billy's” imperturbable manner. ‘Where do such people come from? If it was a note of hand of a bankrupt eat’s meat man he more suspicious. Here you, sir. Will you sign the note?” * ‘No, sir. I made a vow that I would never put my name on any promise to ae ** ‘Send for the manager,’ shouted the eashier, turning to a clerk. He will explain it to you,’ added he, turning to Billy. “The manager came, and all at once Billy’s manner changed, and in the most urbanefmanner possible he told him he did not understand at first the neces- sity for signing, and, putting his name on the note with a flourish, got gold coins for it and walked out, leaving the two officials looking at him with puz- zled faces. “Billy told them all at the Hotel Metropole over a glass of hot whisky and water, and asked: “ Did I gete rise out of the bank of England, or did I not?” The general opihion was that he did. —Helena Independent. Romanrce of Willlam Henry Harrison. Out in the blue grass country they are telling this romantic story about William Henry Harrison, grandfather of the present occupant of the White House: When he was only twenty years of age he wooed Miss Monarchy Fenwick, a bewitching maiden of Frankfort, Ky., but did not meet with any request you may have to make, and I will grant whatever you ask if it is in my power.” Smiling at the jest, so the story goes, she took the valuable circlet and placed it among her treasures. When she next saw her old admirer she was the wife of Judge Samuel Todd, a wealthy and prominent citizen, and had become a famous housekeeper of wide hospital- ity. He had been elected president of the United States and was en route via Frankfort to his inaugural ceremonies. At the Kentucky capital he accepted her invitation to dine. The presiden- tial suite comprised twelve persons, some in carriages, others on horseback. The ring was not presented according to fairy-tale usage, but was retained asanheirloom. Itis now owned by Mrs. Mary L. Tood, Monarchy Fen- wick's daughter-in-law.—N. Y. Trib- une. Let Children Rest Part of the Outing. “It is a mistake,” said a physician, “to let city children do so much of the ‘running wild’ busines in their summer outings. People have the idea that ‘in the country’ one may eat anything or do anything with impunity. Laws for healthful living operate as much under the pines and by the sea as within the city limits, but not many realize it. Mothers often complain to me that they bring their children back in the au- tumn thinner than when they went away. They may do that and still have them stronger, but many times chil- dren are allowed torun too incessantly. ofthe water question in the nt marked way: equal, whether cides to use the n * = will depend much Some and the tinuous exercise, and city children are Endless in BUTLER, SATURDAY OCTOSER 8, 3 ters It takes a strong child to thrive on con- | IyBig Show tobe Here this Year ‘Always the Bes Bigger than the Biggest! Better than the Best! | WALTER LL. Wad RAILROAD SHOWS 1, 2, 4 and 6 horse ejuestrian fer Flying acts! Contortion brothers ets! Sensational female acts! Club acts! Jugglers! Caledonion High wire acts! Rope races! Bieye- Sporty! Grotesquists’ acts! clists! Skaters. Minnett, the greatest of long : reined and ridden by one man! Double 5 horse tandem r Pone Pair Royal Bengal Tigers! Rhinoceros, white be race and costly a Six bands, six tableau wagons, dens and fa teams, roman chariots, long li: A RRS EN \Never Advertises More than it Exhibits! || ore Sone a being cured, measured just a trifle | est Ceylon in countless swarms, de- seven feet nine inches. fi vouring everything eatable. and even e brute had had 3 long career of & A, ew! 8 shells. ;t i ag \ ew Novelties! Limitless in New Features Coming in its own great special built Railroad Train. “2 | Ss? ENORMOUS ‘Big Circuses! 3 Big Rings! 3 sensations! zeacts! Mid air with this belief, they think the oy gutting the timbers of known to the London po! little later, was n <i by the police of 4. and that in 1890 the number Arani outpost in Jul . Many shoot- fallen to 000. He scouts the idea ing nized for its de- wer | says. “it also visited the Arani jurisdiction on | bling, whi the same errand. Several European {from the ante g in the tract of country | work.” over Vv 1 the leopard was known to | —The Nile hasa fallof but inches roam w Iso foiled in the attempt to | to the 7,000 mil ow com: killit. The animal took refuge, when- menees in June e¢ and con. ever search was made for it, in the tinues until August an el Never before—at least in tion of from twenty fect | turbulent | During the last Deen 2 s that of 1829, when 30,000 people were drowned. been practiced. male issue adopts a a daughter, often gives her to him in who may be the hea adopts, on the point of dying, | Russian man-of-war Aleoot recently A TERRIBLE LEOPARD. Before it Was Killed It Was Driven from the Bodies of Eighty-Two Vietims. aster Was a male leopan, in erent from an ordinary y of its skin andits save that for its ches, When it was FOREIGN GOSSIP. ason when the p is t ‘The famous termites, ly large head ed “white ants.” althov ors. ‘The skin, y powerf ng houses crime, for its first kill, that of a little = girl of four years, whom it spraug upon and dragged into the jungle from the ard of the house or bari, where i was 7 about sunset or a o that the latter are reduced to mere —Sir Edmond du Caue, : s there were cease if drunk “If any social leads to er struct of N to st hat crime we he sporting rajah t with his elephants edan gentleman r went tw A Mo nore t + to twenty 1d tow “in a wide. 4 leopard been known to display the same ferocity and daring. There have been tigers that have in dif- ferent parts of India caused a terrible of life; but I doubt whether a rd has ever been known to kill a number 3 hundred and fifty- human beings in the space of j A months ) It was killed itself on the 6th of Apri] hat Madaha, a village four miles distant i from Arhab. It killed one victim only |) on each of one hundred and twenty-one different days; twelve times it killed two human beings on one and the same day, and three times three victims in -. Inone village, that of Baa- rani jurisdiction, on dif- ferent occasions it killed seven people; in seven villages it killed no fewer than abov ng thro body twelve mile: loss 1.000 vears the sudden rise of tt leor but one —The custom of adoption is universal Japan, where it is pr: ieed to keep ming extinct. a family in it has not at some time or other A person who has no son, and, if he has nily name from bee there is scarcely A youth, or even a child, be | iofa family, often son sometimes older than himself tosuceeed | him. | five people; in four villages, six pe . P : Ee velve villages, three —That lonely speck in the Behring | people; in twelve — villag sea where Commander Behring of the | people, and in raater. ee two | Russian navy, the first efficient explor- | People: Except in the Grab. yeas of its criminal career it did not let an interval cf more than seventeen days | pass without killing; twice it went hungry for fourteen days. It killed forty-one boys of ages varying from one to ten years and twenty-two girls; it found old women from ages varying — from forty to sixty an easy prey, for it killed forty of them. Of grown-up men, from twenty to forty years of age, it — killed only six. Of the number of per- sons killed it had been driven off from the bodies of eighty-two; it partially or entirely devoured seventy-two. Jt was seen to climb trees, and actually as- : ni | cended a tree once when chased by cherry trees and rich plants appear in | come villagers. It killed at least one cu ery mathe Tennis eens hill, | Vitlager who attacked it with a lath Seay dows « camads, ainzatiy tok | tated in eevee becom this eae a tims being among the children playing thread-like stream meanders, canieling in the open space around the baris. It rocks and isiands in its windlings and | °° attacked people before Ahoy had finally losing itself ina far-off stretch retined jin aes aay partaking of ae of woodland In a miniature sky a SECs meal, and while: they 7am Sides eran pane hienk lve s*Y © | smoking on the veranda. It broke into” goers haces dl sliver wires | houses at night on several occasions: striking the hours on silver gongs as it | , ¢ z Sete a and dragged the unfortunate inmates: passes. Each hour is marked on the out and devoured them in the neighbor- frame by a creeping tortoise, which |; _ |; ae Calcutta English: s serves the place of a hand. A bird of SE Sa ae oat nga exquisite plumage warbles at the close of each hour, and, as the song ceases, a mouse sallies forth from a neighboring grotto, and scampering over the hill to the garden, is soon lost to view. er of these waters, lies buried beneath a rude cairn will presently have a mon- ument to the navigator’s memor The visited the spot, and will return with a metal cross inscribed to the memory of Rehring and his followers, and pro- claimed as the tribute of the Alcoot. Behring was wrecked on the nd in | 1741. —Japan possesses a remarkable time- piece. It is contained ina frame three feet wide and five feet long, represent- ing a noonday landscape of great } beauty. In the foreground, plum and CARE OF REFRIGERATORS. — A Matter the Housekeepers Should Give Personal Attention. This is one of the most important: | duties of the housekeeper. No matte how many servants she may keep she™ should give this matter her personal supervision once a week. The retriger+ ator should be in perfect condition. the lining be broken in any part, THE CANADIAN PLAINS. Remarkable Similarity of the Asiatic Steppes and the “Great Lone Land.” No one, I think, who is acquainted with the great plains of our own west- tern continent lying north of the great lakes can read the narratives of the ex- peditions sent out in search of the Jean- nette explorers, or Mr. George Kennan’s accounts of Siberian travel, without being impressed with the likeness sug- gested between the Asiatic steppes and the “Great Lone Land” of the western hemisphere. Many of Mr. Kennan’s descriptions of the country through which he passed on his memorable journey to the penal colonies and the prison mines of eastern Siberia are equally well suited to the almost boundless tracts west of Hudson’s bay, The pastimes, sports and games of the ancient Roman Hippodrome and four horse chariot races! Standing races! Ele Two haut races! Male flat races! Female jockey races’? Male and female hurdle races! 21 horses 5 feot hurdle! s, fast sprin- . childrens races, sack races, man against horse rac in special contest, wheel barrow races, Pi races, sulkey races TWO - COLLOSSAL - MENACE RIES! Zebras, Lious, Tigers, Leopards, Hyenss, P Flock of Ostriches see the Grand Gala Day Free Street Parade. ie and dr , thirty mounted | Binghamton Leader. his straw hat down the street.— ONE DAY ONLY. Doors open land 7. Begins 2and 8 p. m. All Railroads sell cheap excursion tickgts to the big show. +. ‘of many parts of what used to be | marked on the maps as British North | America, and is now more com- | monly known as the British Northwest | or the Canadian Northwest than these | same narratives; but I am sure no ' words or pictures can adequately con- | vey to the mind the real impressions | which these regions make upon one | who lives among and travels over them | | in long journeys in summer and winter. | It is one thing to talk of vastness and | solitude and silence, of transparent air | and illimitable sunshine in summer, or | of fierce, howling winter tempests shut- | | ting down about the lonely traveler as ‘he struggles forward, the only spot of ‘ color in the weltering waste of snow, | and northward to the region of the | Great Slave lake. Indeed, I know of no more graphic and truthful portraitures that the water soaks into the wood, tend to the relining at once: or, if the refrigerator be not worth that, discard? it wholly. When possible, avoid hav- ing the drain pipe connected with the plumbing in. the house. Have the re frigerator placed where it ean be flooded with air and light whenever necessary, but of course, ina cool a place as pos sible. Once a week have everythi removed from it. Take out the shelves and wash them in hot soap-suds; them pour boiling water over them. Place them in the sun; or if that fails, by the range, that they may be perfectly dri Now take out the ice rack and was and scald in the same way, except that, as there are grooves or wires in tl the greatest care must be used tog out eve article of dirt that may hi lodged there. Next wash out the it compartment, running a flexible wh rod down the pipe, that nothing shall lodge there. Put two tablespoonfulso washing-soda into a quart of boilin water and onthe fire. When this boil pour it into the ice compartment; low this with a kettle full of boiling water, and wipe dry. Now wash thé other parts of the refrigerator with ho soap-suds and wipe perfectly dry. careful toget the doors and ledges eles and dry. Leave the refrigerator op | for an hourand then return the ice food to it. I plan this work for a day when iceman is due The work is done ii and 1,500 | with no friendly shrub or tree or shel- | & i | tering hill greeting his tired senses, | mediately after breakfast, so that only to find an enforced halting-place refrigerat hen the ice where darkness overtakes him, from | Stould you, after this care, still | whose frozen torpor and death no morn- trouble. do not use the refrigerator. ing may arouse him—it isquite another will be far better to get along wit to have experienced these things in one’s the comfort it affords than to end own person. health and life by using a contamin Among the mountains there are | article. Food should never be put ig: grandeur and solitude; mists wreathe one. Sad ‘ss eee use it the lofty summits, and lic along the sorbs the aoe of other food and als i s + 7 eats the refrice r—Lad=” Ho valleys where the rivers run; morning Beene Sah bs and evening bathe the snowy, ice-clad ea peaks in flooods of golden and crimson glory; from moment to moment shad- ows, tints and tones of color come and o —The last giraffe in the London logical gardens has recently died, go to mark the passing hours; and | the institution is. the first times! climb where you will, the prospect is | 15%, without a living specimen of always limited, bounded, varied. Even it bad in all thirty bedecked cages, jockies. tandem uter buffaloes, Ke. out changing aspects and m the barren, unsociable sea is not with- fraught, indeed. at times, with danger and terror; but the traveler who has passed many seasons in the grandest mountain scenery, or has sailed on many sea, has yet to find, in an acquain ance with the great plains. a new set | neces. —C. _of novel and strange expe | & Kenaston, in Century. seventeen were borm raffe market is and there is but om r sale in Europe. ically extinet in an not be found thousand miles from Cape Town. are st ffes in east Africa, bu are no means of catching th lar Science Monthly,