Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-08-30

sickish flavor; then you gulp it down, and you Shiver from head to foot as though a whole train of cars were passing ovcr the spot where your grave is to be; then you think you ore sc;lsick and are having a shock from an electric battery besides The next moment, however, it is all over, and you go your way, thanking the Lord you have lived through it. But I shall carry with me to my grave the recollection of the faces people make when they take their first drink. They always do live through it. You even improve in health, as the days go on and you gulp down quarts of this diabolical draft. Perhaps on the principle that whatever you dislike most is good for you these same waters have cured many hopeless chronic ail- mcnt particularly in the line of rhcuma- tism and skin diseases.
 The Peculiar Water.
 The strange liquid, which was known to the Indians under the name of "the mysterious water" is found in various parts of the beautiful Gcnescr valley It contains so many chemicals that you won der how they can all dissolve in one glass If water There arc the sulphatcS and sul- phurctS of magnCsia, lime and soda, with carbonate of lime, muriate of soda and in some of the springs sulphureted hydrogen and carhonic acid. There are many springs and wells at different points around Avon which vary slightly in tho salts they con- tain and that to mo seems strange. Why should they: some of them have traces of iodine and brominr. The sulphur fumes prc 50 powerful in the ncighborhood of the wells and springs that they turn nearly all metals black. A silver quarter dipped into the water will come out a gray black There is only one metal these all pcrvasive fumes will not turn black, and that is alu- minimum, the beautiful metal of the flu tIIrC. steam radiators and chandeliers in our sanitarium are painted with alumin- ium bronze and they Shino bright and beautiful always. If you bring any jew rlry to Avon hat is not of pure gold the trlltalr sulphur will hlab your secret the first day.
 The waters have d strangely rncrvating effect at first. No matter how athletic, no matter what a hustler you are at homr q bath or two of this mysterious water with c"piuus drinks of the same, take all the snap out uf you. You are indrscribahIy weak. The feoling for Il day or two is perhaps like scasickncss. Perhaps you will feel as if ynu were going to die and you don't care a cent if you do. You are over whclmCd with an awful laZiness One lady who's" liIcwaS not ill danger thought she w;lS going tu die. She begged to be taken home even though she had to be car ricd on a bed It was suggested that shc wait till shc got better.
 No" she moancd with tears in her eyes, mo, no! If I've got to die, I want to die at home and hr buried where can rise with my own family"
 few days later this same lady was as lively and chipprr as th" best, with no more thought of dying than you, reader, have at this minute.
 A Peculiar Patron.
 For thos1 who can walk one of the few amuscmrnts is to go to the railway station and scc the trains como in. If you go carly enough in tho morning and tho day be at all cool you will sec approaching a remarkable looking human being. It is the summcr sras"n, but this man wears one of the h,n> fest ovcrcoatS known even to that conli.h climate. A great wooden