Morning journal and courier., 1884-01-01

nose; and even though these should be suf- | fcisntly protected, it is by no means safe to ] inhale large quantities of such very cold sir directly into the lungs. Hence it is one of | the most common pieces of advice to keep your mouth shut" which does not neces- sarily mean that your conversation is disa- greeRble, but that your adviser has consid- ! crate regard for your health, and would not ! have it risked by your breathing through the open mouth instead of thrcugh the nostriIs On the same account we are recommended to stay indoors on frosty mornings until after | 10 o'clock; although, by way of compensa- ton, It IS regarded a5 quite safe to venture forth under the bright and shining stars There certainly is 0 season of acclimation, during which the neglect of these kiRd precautions ! is quite likely to be followed by hard colds, bronchitis, or pneumonia. An invalid who came out here for his health year ago, and | by taking geod care of himself not only got through the dreadful cold of last winter but received positive benefit by the change of climate, presumed too far on his having be- come inured to the cold, and being careless as to inhaling the sharp morning air, relapsed and has just paid the extreme penalty. There ! Is no need of such misfortune and fatality if people will only remember that change of | climate is like any other medicine, to be taken in moderation.
 Olst6rn water IS an uncertain commodity here. on account of the scanty rain fall. We | have been here two months and have seen
 but one rainy day; and they tell us that we may not see another for months. Hence, | until recently, the water-supply has mainly | been from wells driven through the sandy plain on which the city is built, down to the beds of underlying gravel, which are reached l at from ten to forty feet below the surface. ! This plain is from one to five miles wide, and perhaps ten miles long, and is so very level 1 as to make the drainage problem difficult. l The deleterious effects of impure water,
 contaminated by imperfect sewerage, hase
 been visible in the form of zymotic
 diseases. During the year ending March, 1883, there were in the city of Minneapolis, according Kto the health officers report, 164 deaths from typhoid fever, 1855 from consumption, 117 from diphtheria, 109 from
 pneumonia, and 985 from all other causes,
 including accidents. Fully one third of all
 cases were in emigrant families. The largs number of consumptives is explained by the fact that hundreds of that class of patients come here, attracted by the climate; and while -many make good recoveries, many others como too late to do otherwise than die, as they would have done anywhere else. Ty- phoid fever and diphtheris are so clearly chargeable to defective drainage, and to the use of surface wells, that with the abandon l ment of these no such epidemic need be | feared. l
 
 on, will be the Mississippi river itself, which | here flows swiftly down the long rapids and | falls, enclosed between high rocky bluffs. It 1 Is probably as pure water ss can be found | in natural condition, and is not to be named | In the same moment with the muddy con- pound for which the lower Mississippi is | famous. Four great pumps are now run on | the Holly system, whose daily capacity will | soon be increased to thirty three millions of 1 gahonsi This system is mainly relied on in ing kept for use in portions of the city not | yet reached by the water-mains. The in- stant alarm is sounded, extra pressure Is applied at the works, by means of which, | from the city hydrants, a score or more | of streams may be thrown higher than the tallest buildings in tho place. An example will show the efficiency of the Holly system, which regard as far in advance of tho | steam fire engine as that excels the old-fash- toned hand-eneine. One morning, on hear. ing the alarm given, looked at my watch and then hastened to the scene. Within ex- aotly four minutes from the sounding of the alarm there were twelve streams, each two | inches in diameter, playing on tho burning building with force enough to go over it's tall chimnies, and in twenty minutes the fire was out.
 We miss the bells of New Haven The fire alarm here is given by steam whistle. Some of the largest churches hays DO belis and the smaller ones have co1Tsspondingly small bella. There is sonprous pea! like that '1ith which the tesVosso OF the CltyJof EFmg rect Christmas morning, the Fourth of dnly nd other holidays. There is, hoTever, 7sry sweet set of chimes on tue Church Of 1e Redeemer, and others are talked of for z 'lymouth and Westminster churches But, | B matters stand, 1t does no good to look at Four watch here at nins o'clock, for there Is 10 signal to regulate 1t by. Although there | re thirty churches within radius of half a 2 nile of my house, we never hear their bells v ,n Sunday morning. Their music is not loud ' though to penetrate the storm windows. My I congregation were actually amused when, the \ other day, referred in 8 sermon to the sum- V mons of the church-going bell.
 We also miss the coasting and th5 skating | is built, as already remarked, On wide sandy plain, and l do not now think ( ,f any bill more than ten feet high between | aere and the bluffs along the river. The e western margin is skirted by some beautiful | akes but these are bleak when the mercury S falls below zero, and besides that they are a now covered by tte last snowfall, which viii | aot disappear till spring Hence the skating s mostly done in rinks, which frequently crowded. These long, level avenues, how ,ver, are admit able for sleigh riding. Park avenue, on which we live, is as great 8 placs of resort for sleighs a5 Ehalley avenue is in New Haven. The dis play is even finer. For the climate assures IS of months of sleighing, and makes it worth while for people to provide themselves { with fine turn-outs. Then the great variety of furs that are worn, and the excellent horses for which Minnesota is famous to- { sether with the exhiIaratiDg atmosphere, ! combine to make the scene q very exciting ,ne. Since beginning this paragraph there ss nave not less than B hundred fins teams dashed by in full sight from my study win :, low. A friend has just driven up with his louble sleigh, wolf robes and coal black span; F 0 invite me 10 try the road. So, good by! 2
 H. c. H.