New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-07-19

scalded, and mutterng to himself:
Chloride OF Sodium. O0.4............H grains
Chloride OF Potassium. ......... SOY
Bicarbonate OF MaRnesia......- l2L15I
BlcarbOnate OF Lime ......... 1887 :,
Bieareonate OF Lithia....'...'' , 49,
"Brom- Brom-a trace trace -ust-asstronRand
yearsago, dler-says BicarDoor
rr-"
"Beg pardon for interrupting you, Col Johnson
said removing my hat and sitting down in bucket OF
Congress water which happened to be convenient but
fcame away without any books Of reference and just
came over TO ask if"
"These springs have been losing strength for few
years back - he broke that's what every bodys run
nlng in for ever SINCE Hathorn discovered that salt
mackerel mine Of hs; mol noli confound It, nolII
Prof Chandler says and he bent his head to bis task
again. and went mutterng about bicarbonates and
bromides and ioddes and sulphates and phosphates
and bbarates and uorides and suicides and the cubic
inches OF gas that he OF given quantity Of his water
conJained--I could MT distinctly make out which.
"What ails that dog Z" asked by way Of showing my
friendly interest and approaching my real business
gently and dexterOusly.
.Well some folks say he's scalded, and some say he
amt; some think threw hot water on him and
do MT. think Hathorn flung some OF that con-
founded water OF his him that's what think about
IT, But here's what ~ bring him round again all right
and he went on rubbing the yellow dogs back with
Congress water and the yellow dog bowling and yell
all the while though he were being skinned alive
"Then II is good for burnsp asked
GOOD for burns |" he exclaimed, turning round on
me and dropping the dog az should say so why, one
himbeful OF it will put out more IRE than hoeshead
OF common water WILL What do you think saved Sara
toga from being clean burned down last Summerf They
tried that Hathorn water the fire. and 1t just set 1t
going like would there's nothing so cooling
as Congress water chap from your city, where they
don't get much good milk drove out TO farm the other
day and drank much cow:juce that he felt uncom-
Portable so he Just walked down TO spring and took
q glass two OF water well, they held post mortem
next day and I'm blest If there MT nigh upon gal
Ion and ahalf OF cecream found in his potato cellar
no man could stand that, you know; you see the milk
would MT have hurt him by ITSELF though is uncommon
rich, the milk we raise round here, and the water
would MT have hurt him either II he hadn't packed 1t
square top Of the milk II he ID just slipped iddle
cake or something he ID be cayorting around
now gay a speckled steer"
"But Is MT there good deal Of Hathorn water drunk
asked.
o course there is every one that stops at his hotel
has TO drink it you see IT'S mighty profitable TO him.
that spring; il man goes down and takes glass OF II
before breakfast he don't want breakfast much and
when dinner time comes round he amt amazing hungry
either and little toast and tea is about his best gait
all the while Why, that spring saves Hathorn million
Spring chickens year; he won't let his folks drink our
water; is stopping there now from out West; got
the gravel; doctors sent him here TO drink Congress
water Hathornlwon't let him; keeps him pumping away
at that spring OF hts what's the Tho poor
fellows getting gravely every day; he'll De over
here TO get TO roll him down with the garden-rOer
one OF these fine mornings Hathorns guests don't get no
flesh on them look at Hathorn himself; you can see
clean through him of q clear day; why when came
here first was Just thin Hathorn ia, and now"
The Colonel cast satisfied eye over his ROUND proper
tions , 49,, 1901, ,,,,,, o,o
too pethoricP asked.
oh shut oon it twenty years ago Jerry, over there
at the Grand Union fixes something for me once In
while instead don't like It so we'll as do Congress
water but a man does MT want 10 get too fat you
Ia there really much difference in the substances con-
tanned in these various springsP asked. " SetunR
prejudice wholly aside, are not the mineral sas ana the
proportions in which they exist nearly ldenucal
"Identican Well, neyerw shouted the Colonel,
rushing into q back room and dragging in a huge glass
lar "Here Is the sediment from gallon OF the Hathorn
water, which eyapOrated myself; no one else had
access TO It Just this" and he ratified and shook
the lar. . i've had the result OF the evaporation
snsyzed carefully, by the best chemist 10 Baston and
here is what he says about It,"
took the scrap OF paper aud Fead: NJ.
Carpet tacks.... 2G222 Pair of traces.....A trace.
Par OF boots...... 100000 sdrrup feathers. Some.
9 9d s TaM n Ao suso'
Total solid contents.
r, r" Snotnote saving chat they mad not been
able 10 foot them up as the only "Webbs Adding Ma
chine in the village was kept In such constant use they
could MT get q chance at It, But 1t was comforting 10
me 10 find out where boots shoes and slippers lost at
Congress Hail. all went. In the cause OF science am
willing TO sacrifice any amount of wearing apparel)
and the substances contained in your SPRING DO they
differ materially from those above enumerated Colone
"Well should say so" and he began again:
% Rromide of Sodium 1850 Fuoride Of"
Iodide of Sodium. .0.1Ss
what is fiuOrde !" asked.
"Oh bother don't interrupt me az my morning devo-
tons; take down the dictionary there ana lo0K IL up
ana he went on:
TO- "Hydriodate Of"
The opportunity was too tempting TO be resisted.
nietlv iid Oft with the dictionary and safe at the
Grand Union before the Colonel got fairly TO the final