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Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 428, 28 July 1904, Page 8

SEWAGE. The sewage of the city of Berlin is die-, posed of by conveying the liquid matter to two sewage farms about eight miles from the city, the one on the north being! known as Blandenburg, and tbe other as Mallowe. The German plan consists in depositing the sewage upon the farm and discharging it at various points, so as to make the distribution equal and uniform. At various points wells, or reservoirs, are established, and by the use of a simple wooden appliance the sewage 4s held or discharged as the management of the farm requires, The contents of the little reservoirs are sprsad by gravity over small sewage fields, the surface of which are practically as nature left them. Vegetables, fruit trees, shrubs and things of similar growth assist in taking up the sewage by natural processes, and the earth does the rest by absorption, the air and atmosphere assisting. The organic matter is thus discharged in vegetable growth, and the liquid is carried eff through; the pores of the earth. The farm is a garden of all the beautiful things that nature produces, and the product is sold on tbe provision counters of the city. The interesting feature of this particular farm is that the effluent or resulting water is so purified that it is collected in a reservoir and pumped thence back to Berlin, to replenish the domestic water supply.

'HOBBES MASSAGED AND MANICUBED.' A beauty parlor for horses has been established in New York. Here horses have their coats electrically massaged, their hoofs manicured, and their teeth filed and whitened, and here they learn to stand properly and to move in all the fashionable gaits. Beauty and correct, graceful carriage are qualities as assential to horses as to women. They are qualities that increase a horse's value and ensure him a good home—and, therefore, this equine beauty parlor, which lacks no means that will aid a horse in his quest after better looks and a better deportment, is an institution both necessary and beneficient. It is also a popular institution.

There is a vezy simple way of removing that disagreeable smell from a pan in which fish has been cooked. Ail yen hare do is to put some water in the bottom of the pan and drop a red-hot cinder into it. Then, when you have washei out the pan, yon will find the smell entirely disappeared.