THE USES OF WATER.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2071, 13 October 1880, Page 3

THE USES OF WATER.

The Tribune ” recently had the following in its leading columns “ There can be no question that water, especially of the brand used in Chicago, is a dangerous drink. Undoubtedly water is good in its place, and is an indispensable adjunct to navigation, an excellent medium for the promotion of emigration, valuable for house cleaning, swimmingschools, and steam boilers, and superb as the receptacle for sewage, besides being a perfect conductor of scarlet-fever, typhoid-fever, and diphtheria, when taken in its primitive stage. But when it is considered that the refuse of the great City of Chicago is dumped into it every day, that the heavier stuff goes to the bottom to decay, and that the lighter articles, like distillery slops, sewage, inanimate doge and defunct cats, float about on the surface * stealing and giving odour,’ can one be too careful how he consumes such a heterogeneous mixture, and sets an example to children

whose tender bodies are peculiarly susceptible to its insidious inflenoes ? Can any one sot a glass even of the comparatively pure liquid pumped out of Lake Michigan by the side of a glass of the amber beer, with its mantle of snowy cream and its fragrant bouquet of molt and hops, and hesitate as to the relative healthiness of the two ? Can any one examine a drop of even the purest water, crowded with all sorts of winged and horned organisms, and then think of the myriads more of disgusting animaculoo that have wriggled through! the sewers and crawled into it, and coolly turn his body into a menagerie of such 1 small deer,’ when beer is so plenty and so good.'