Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1895 — Just Escaped. [ARTICLE]

Just Escaped.

An English newspaper has an item about a little Scotch boy, who, while playing on the docks, fell into the water and was with great difficulty rescued by a bystander: “You ought to be very glad I was near by,” said his rescuer. “I am,” replied the boy. “An’ I’m so glad ye got me out. What a lickin’ I wad got from my mither if I’d been drooned.” It is said that there is no better or simpler way of testing suspected water than the following: Fill a clean pint bottle nearly full of the water to be tested, and dissolve in it half a teaspoonful of loaf or granulated sugar. Cork the bottle and keep in a warm place two days. If the water becomes cloudy or milky within forty-eight hours it is unfit for domestic use.