The Express.
London, England, 1864-10-20 00:00:00

CISTERN PIPES AND PURE WATER.

TO TM .IDITOI OF TEI XtrIZISS.

Sts,—lf you tbink the following of any benefit
to the public, I would tbeak you to insert it in your valuable
columns : _ _

-1To; called to see a gentleman this morning wbo wee
suffering from ill health. His idea was that it anise from
the water he drank, as he was better ohs° away from
home. The thought occurred to me that it was possible, as
the standing waste or overflow pips in the cistern was con-
nected with the trap, sad of course leading late
the cistern, was the cause of the georderean being unwell.
I have been; in the plumbing trade for some years. and I
have of tea seen the inside of the top of a cistern quite die-
coloured by the effluvium arising oat of the pips; indeed,
when taking off a cistern top that has bean fitted very
tight, the smell ban been very bad, sod I have seen a scum
on the surface of the water. Now, I Wiese is London, the
waste or overflow pipes in aisle eases out of ten ars put is in
this way, leading from the trap or drain into the cilium, so
that the effluvia is confined is the Meters, and so precast.'
the water and causes ill health to weak ouostitations. This
might be easily remedied, thus, instead of having the waste.
Pips standing upright is the cistern, let it be made
so the shape of a syphon or 8 trap, and by
regulating the ball
.tap. so that when the water
is on from the mom it should just Bow over, and
fill the trap nude in the waste-pipe, so that it
may be always full . • it would then be an impossi-
bility for an ►OffinVill toariss, thus keeping the water pure.
I do hope that all arabiteeta, builders, and plurabsre will
see to this in all new buildings, as it will only take about
one foot of extra pips, and the altering of the present cases,
the out of its being effectually done will be trots 3s. to fin
—I am, &c., JOSEPH CUTLER.
13, Bowman's-Owe, Holloway-road, N.,
Landau, October 19.

ADMIRALTY, OCT. 19. 11rroiarTinernt.—Lieu-
talent —H. F. Groh's, to the Excellent. Masters' Assist-
aeta—A. G. Douglas, to the Dasher ; A. B. Scott, to the
Victory.
TROOPS is Nal% ZRAL/ND.—lnstruotiotu have
been mat out by the War.oillae for the return of aseeral
the memento which bare beau esped in the New Zealand
war. The termination of hostilities will enable the troops
to return at nons.—New Zeeland Examiner.

FIELINO Has Way.—General Schenck, dis-
cussing the democratic platform, in a speech at Hamilton,
Ohio, oroughtdown tM home* the followlag illastratioe :
" I know nothing at all that it like It, unless it may b.
the character of the fruit that is mold by on old lady who
sits at the door of the court.house in Oioelenatl. She Is a
shrewd old woman. A yousg sprig of a lawyer stepped up
one day and said to her, • You seem to hare some dos
apples. Are they sweet or sour r The old lady tried to
take the measure of her customer, sod gad out whether
his taste was for sweet or soar apples. ' Why, sir,' said
she, • they are rather mid ; a sort of low tart, tuellaad to
be very sweet."
Fountain Brown, a citizen of Washington, has
beim convicted of kidowiag Depots sod selling them into
slavery, sod seeteused to enema years' hayriatunoset and
hard labour at Altos, Imsda

Pony? Museum Sours Kaironmoir.—Num-
bat d visitors for Ns week aid* Oat 15, 2,138. Told
sonaber doom lb. opeolog d the aas= boo doily (12th
Noy, 11158), 861,226.