Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1862-02-06

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it contains no lime or saline matter possess
ing the power of refracting light. The wa
ter used by your first mistress contained lit
tie or no lime, and all went on we'll You
see. the old proverb, mot to trust too much
to appearance, will apply to water as well
as to men. But how came it that bright
and sparkling water caused such distur-
baDce Of your stomach, and coated your in.
side with 'furr' nearly an inch thick2"
asked my new master.
Ofcourse could not say and so he con-
tinued
"I'll tell you The water used at the
house of your second mistress contained a
goodly quantity of lime--carbonate of lime,
or chalk-dissolved during its percolation of
the earth; this, from its perfect solution, would
Ercnder il sparkling. Nows my good frieud,
you have helped to enliven many . Christ
mas party with the hot water you have sup
piled, and cannot have failed to observe
that when the guests were mixing their tod
dy, how much sooner the sugar dissolved in
hot water than in cold so it is with sub
stances generally; they are more readily
soluble to hot fluids than in cold.'
! Yes, I've remarked that, sir, F" said /:
Lime, however, is an exception at or
binary temperature pint Of water will dis
solve fully eleven grains of lime, while at
its boiling point the same quantity will not
take up seven. Of this water, bright and
brilliant and fully saturated with lime, or
its carbonate, you were daily filed, and as it
became hotter and hotter, down and down
went the lime, leaving day by day an addi-
tional coat on your poor Sides and as a very
small SNOWFALL will, when set in motion, in
crease to monster, so the continued daily
film of limy deposit increased to an incon-
venient and uncomfortable thickness, and
ultimately brought you to grief, for this
thick deposit, or FUR, by reason of its be-
ing bad conductor of heat, prevented its
passage through you to the water; it would
not boil, and you got blamed.
"You know best, sir, and no doubt it is
as you say" was all could give utterance
''But to the point, he continued. "You
are nearly halffull of this troublesome stuff,
and no doubt all good housewives will re-
joice to learn an easy remedy. This limy
deposit, though hard, and troublesome to re-
move by hammer and chisel, is easily got
rid of by chemical agency. Hydrochloric
acid Giving vince at this hard name,
my master noticed it and said, Don't be
alarmed, it is commoHly called spirits of
salts,") will remove the cause of all your
troubles in very few minutes, without in
jury to yourself and that we'll at once
prove"
Accordingly, my good master sent to a
druggist bottle, and procured half pound
of spirits Of salts, costing but few pence I;
he placed me in the open AR, and having
diluted the spirit" with pint or 20 of wa
ter, poured into me. Oh, what commo-
\ ton 10 did prodpce I-,lsughE,now Ybut
4 really / was alarmed at the effervescence
that took place within me, but as in a mo-
ment the "furr" began to get less and less,
1 felt relieved. and my spirits began to rise
accordingly. N.Y. master shook me about
now and then, taking care, observed, to
avoid the fumes that arose, and in few
minutes exclaimed, "All right, old fellow,
l can see your copper; now you'll do
Come with me to the pump, and a douche
will set you quite to right" For ten min
utes was under hydropathic treatment
such as patients at Ben Rhydding or NAL
vern rarely experience--and l was well as
ever, good as new"
am now happy to tell have never had
a relapse of my old complaint, am happy as
the day is long, and sing as readily as ever.