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Show ious vapors arising from animal and vegetable decay. With these 1 I may be classed the effluvium from 1 I slaughter houses, from dead ani- j 1 mals, from decaying leaves, herbs ; j and vegetables in cellars, from rot- ( ting wood about door-yards and ; orchards, the deposit of animals in ' corrals and the streets, the out ( houses and the noxious exhalation from cities, coops and barnyards. The community would lie more free from sickness, there would be fewer of our loved ones in the graveyard : if we would only give this impor-j Unt matter a little consideration, j But our health seems to be but a! secondary matter compared to how we can best make a little money. Ex. Onv I'.oad to Health. With every breath we tlraw we take into our lungs about one pint of air. and seeing that we breathe; twenty -five thousand times in twenty-four hour.-;, it is of the utmost ut-most importance that the atmns pherc wc live in be kept as pure as possible. The air is poisoned by carbonic arid gas; traces of it are aV.ays R-nnd. It is the life of wg. able growth, but dangerous to animal li:'e. Ti:e ntmnsphrrc is 1 di'.-jiuik-fl of its parity by the nox- |