Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1881 — Water in the Room. [ARTICLE]

Water in the Room.

To purify a room, set a pitcher ot water in the apartment, and in a few hours it will have absorbed all the respired gases |n the room, the air of which will have become purer, but the water utterly filthy. The colder the water is the greater the capacity to contain these gases. At ordinary temperature a pail of water will absorb* pint of carbonic acid gas aud several pints of ammonia. The capacity is nearly doubled by reducing the water to the temperature of ice. Hence water kept in a room awhile is unfit for use. For the same reason water from a pump should always be pumped out in the morning before any of it Is used. Impure water is more injurious than impure air. The pastor of the Congregational church, at Stanford, Conn., used the revised New Testament. The officers sent him a written order to return to the King James version, “The ignorance thus shown by a people to whose enlightenment I have devoted myself,” says the minister, “so disgusts me that I will no longer read any scripture for their benefit. I have resigned.” / ~Judge Advocate Swaim, after a review of the case, decides that [Cadet Whitaker must go, and he will M .“git”