Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1848-11-28
For The Signal.


es in importance, as the much dreaded.
Asiatic Cholera seems TO be fast foach.-
Jag the American Ccntfheaii, 'and Will
most likely take the same routes it took
in 1882, spreading of course westward
with the increased population of the.
Western States, .IshHre thought some
facts in relation to the drinking water Of
this country would be deemed interesting.
The fact HAT the Cholera has pursued
| its old course, has induced Scientific men
to investigate the cause. |, is found that
the Cholera has been confined to certain
Geological Observation-Disclosures and Ter.
tiary. The Tertiary regions have been
always found the most dangerous. This
order Of Rocks is composed Of calcar.
eous loans or marls.
So il seems that where ever the 'inhab.
itants have been confined to the'use of
the waters of calcareeus districts, there
the Cholera has ahOunded. In This coun.
| try it is we'll known our well waters are
highly impregna,ed with the carbonate
ri Lime this being held in solution by
carbonic acid in proportions. for
ming 10 fact TIE Bi.cerb"Haie 'ofLime
which on being taken into the system is
recOnverted into the carbonate. one pro-
portion the carbOnic acid beng absorb
ed iErO the system.
am fully assured in NY own mind
that the well and spring waters Of this
country produce many, If not all the
peculiar Diseases which are SO frequent.
Diarhoeas, Dysenteries, Typhoid and
other malignant Fevers are attended 10y
nearly the same diseased characters after
death; death in these cases being always
attended by liberation sfrhe lnwer part
Of the small intestine. A New Highlander
cannot visit rhis country without being
subject to Dia,hoes; and this, it is well
known. is produced by our caIcare"us
waters. Surely this disease is not a
stranger to many of our old or new set
Tiers.
Now this condition Of things can he
/ easily rentedied. 'aad that too with profit
To the pocket as well rs the health. Let
every house have good cistern, and
then use rain warer Heaven supplies
us with pure water freely, and all rise
mcn will have their cisterns, roofs, and
cutters, trimmed and in good order. t"
! receive it. And / think the rifre il not
. Far distant WREN every Barn, and she'd
will he supplied with cutters, and Rain
water collected for man and beast.
! This matter is of momentous impor.
lance, and it will not take long for any
sane man to be convinced, who will in.
vestigate the palpabIe facts connected
with it. Rain water is by far the best
sOlvent:-lhus have found that TO obtain
Il given strength Uf decoctiGn of Tea or
Coffee, these common articles of dier
will require but little more tHah one half
the quantity, n1aen rain water is used in
preference to well water. In a year,
from seven to ten dollars may be saved
hy family Of ordinary size-sufficirni
to build very respectable cisterh; not TO
aenIion tke labOur saved Of carrying wat.
er from the we'll three or four times day,
distant, from fen to forty rods, and may
be up the Bluff
The aggregate amount cf time and
Iab1ur spent in carrying wafer by some
of the citizens Of Joliet, in one year,
would huild two decent cisrerns; calcula
ting half an hour day, we shall have in
a year the time of fifteen and half work
ing days of ten hours each. Another
valuable fact should not he passed by;-
a cisterH of water in a house is Of con
siderable value, in case Of fire. Had
not heen supplied with water some
lew weeks since, from the ci<,ern in the
house. the house and nearly every thing
within It, would have been consumed in
few minutes. a s the day was clear, cold
and windy.
DE'Pk