A LECTURE ON WATER.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9892, 19 January 1895, Page 6

A LECTURE ON WATER.

"Water, my dear children, is a terrible fluid that drowns people. It h composed of two gases, on neither of which could life be sustained. Every year thousands upon thousands of people are killed by this dreadful fluid, leaving Borrowing widows and orphans behind them, and yet oar wicked Parliament refuses to prohibit It. Water somo'tlmes gets into houses and rains the walls and the ceilings and spoils the carpets. Many horrible diseases are brought about by this water, snoh bb rheumatism and pleurisy. Water is the home of disease germs. Typhoid fever and obolera are both brought about by drinking water. Water rises In the form of

'Hoods, and then wnofe r toVni"are swept •way, ' ' ana titihdrt&tfttiFtysdplh meek their deatti"' 'Often the poor fsrmerg 1 oirops »re completely. Miei by this .water. . ■; .. 1. -hus et " Hoinetimßs people R©t,witer in tbelv bb^Br,ib%:.^;^b.jso and die. ilf you put tpoDge-cske in wster. you will find tbit it bebbtries piilpy and uneatable. 'Water will;^,e"t||»f the valae off a new -silk :hat;'MtidMiß made of ■^Mer, J m|3*f ' witßri'e^tß.y^SoineHmes water freezes; BndfiieD it becomes very dangerous ; > people ' often . break their h'g» walking npon it. , aWater de> Bcende from th6 lolon<l9, ffliLoiUl^t rain, and In this forta it'gpoll^pjcniog, and makes, oar streets ..ep^HiW, dirty. Water lef^ ißJß.T&djnii|gy^t^n time -Rives off an offenairefttaell^Jtid will be 'found to eoDtMA^boniandS^on.thoagnndß of tioy inisgqfe/jina o^6'ed J di>eaie and death. If you. put 1 y on* boots In water, j^ou Sill find that all the blacking ponies "ofi .tbenj.'—K-.pctyr' ;," T , -

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