The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-11-13

suicidal manner oI urihkih8 III '"o S"'
States. This science consists simply in the
hardness of drinking All drinks are taken
sip by sip, half or three quarters OF M
hour being consumed for glass OF beer
This is 30 simple that one is liable to ridiou'e
for laying stress upon il, and yet on TINS one
point hinges, in my opinion, q question Of
vast importance to Americans. BY this man
per Of drinking the blood is aroused to
greater activity in 80 gradual manner that
there is no violent arrangement Of the AMI
NAL economy. BY slow drinking the German
aocomplshes the object Of drinking. ana
gives his animal economy chance to say,
Hold, enough" which only slow drinking
will do,
"woman unuues,ionab,y carries purity
ing influence with her wherever she goes
and her presence in the drinking pisces OF
Europe drives from them that class of low
yagabonds that hang around American drink
ing places. Hence, one never sees drunken
man in cafe, and rarely even, on the street
Perhaps no better possible illustration Of the
purifying influences of woman could be
found.
Cafes are open to all classes, bat the
lower classes seldom visit them; they would
be abashed by doing 20 rs much rs they
would by entering parlor where 'heJ
would meet refinement aud elegant manners
There are some exceptions to this rule IN the
larger cities, but this is confined to cafes
that are we'll known aud ladies' avoid them
but there are no drinking places III Germany
but what lady may enter with all propriety
drunkenness is rare, and if so. 1t rarely
manifess itself in boisterous or bclligerent
manner, but more frequently takes ;he shape
of song, fun, and general pleasurabIe feel
ing Of warmth, energy. and self command,
and hence those horrid crimes that some
times shock us in the United States are
rarely heard of here. Then, Why should
there exist such difference in the evils OF
drinking in EuroTe and in the United 5tnieS'
1t il manife-tly the result Of the manner o!
drinking in vogue in the two hemispheres y
DR.. John n. kauch, Of the State Board Of
Health, recently made n report on Chicago
water supply and sewerage, in which he
reports the results Of an examination T II !
lnois river water. made with view 10 de
termining the degree Of pollution it hal e1-
perienced by reason Of the turning of Chi
cago sewerage into it through the Briigport
pumps. The analyses were made from canal
and river water taken at Bridgeport, Lock.
port, Joliet, Ottawa and Peoria The report
says:
1.-The measure Of publication "as indicated
by the mean of the losses Of free ammonia
and albumino,d ammonia about 20 per cent
T. thirty three miles. Over half the sewage
pollution had disappeared before reaching
Lockport, twenty nine miles below Bridge
port, and nearly a third of the reminder
WAS lost in the next four miles the increased
publication being attributed TO the me
chanicsl agitation of the water by falls.
wheels, lockage. etc, coupled with the
greater surface exposed to seration by the !
junction of the cana! uni the Des PLANES
river The rainfall during the period OF
observations WAS so slight that there was
no dilutisn Of the contents of the
canal between Bridgeport and Joliet. and
the loss of sewage pollution il s,cribed to
oxidation. Al the same average rate per
mile obtained after leaving jolie, the pollu-
ton Of the canal Ivy Chicago sewage ought 10
disappear within the next ten or twelve
miles, or about Channahan An exsmina-
ton made June | confirmed this estimate.
An average Of about 5000 Cubic tcet per
minute was being pumped from the river
into the canal during this period II the
volume of dilu,ion had been increased ~ per
cent the contents Of the canal would have
been entirely inotlensive to the senses on
reaching Joliet