| Show the salt it you yo please everybody has a partiality for dinner and one of the most frequent e espres cpr es ions at a dinner taue table is is the one which forms our caption and in in order that our readers may know something of the substance they are using we will tell them a few facts about salt salt is is a c chemical hei compound of ti twenty enty three parts by weight of a beautifully silver IN white hite but bu t soft metal called sodium discovered by sir II 11 davyd davy in 1807 and thirty five parts of a pungent yellowish grain gas called chlorine discovered b by Y in m 1774 these two combined form this the most widely videly diffused and useful of any one compound in in the world it is is found in in the sea and in in the rocks from which our principal supply comes the m most st w wonderful aeiful deposits are in in poland a and rol 1 hungary aun 9 ary where it is is quarried like a rock one of the polish rames mines having been worked since since 1251 the polish salt anines mines have heard the groan 0 of f many a poor captive and have seen the last agonies of many a brave maw man for until lately they were worked entirely by the state prisoners of Aus austila tiia russia or poland whichever happened to lo be in power at the time time and once the 0 tender offender P or fancied hindrance to some other persons advancement was let down into this subterranean prison anson he ie never nev er saw the light of day again so salt has its us history as well as science science other large deposits are found ia m cheshire england where the water J is forced down by pipes pipes into the salt and pumped lumped up as brine which is evaporated arol and the salt obtained to such an extent has this been carried that one town own in athe the salt country as it is is called has aas scarcely an upright house in in it all the foundations having sunk with avith the ground to fill up the cavity left by the tha extracted salt in virginia there are beds of salt and the salmon mountains in in oregon are capable of affording large quantities of the same material the brine springs of salma salina and Syra cause are well known and from about forty gallons of this brine one bushel of salt is is obtained there are also extensive s salt alt springs in in ohio the brine is is pumped up from wells made in in the rock and into which it flows and runs into into boilers these boilers are large iron iron kettles set in brickwork and when fires are lighted under them the brine is is quickly evaporated the moment the brine begins to bol boil it becomes turbid from the compounds of lime that it contains and which are soluble in in cold but not in in hot water these first sediments are taken out with ladles called bittern ladles and the salt being next deposited from the brine is is carried a way away ll 11 to drain deain and dry T the he remaining liquid contains a great quantity of mao magnesia gnesia in various forms and is is given div en the name of bittern from the taste peculiar to magnesia in every for form in but how bow did this salt come into tj the ie rock is is the natural query and t the he wonder seems 9 greater reater when IN we e recollect that salt beds are found in m nearly every one of the strata composing the earths crust this fact proves another that as the majority of these salt beds have come from lakes left in in the hollows of the rocks by the of the sea the sea has through all the geologic ages been as salt as it is is today to day let us take the great salt alt lake as an illustration tra tion it being the largest salt lake in in the world but by no means the only one as such inland masses of saline water are found over the whole earth but as ours clurs is is the greatest in in extent it will form the best example it is is situated at an elevation of feet above the sea on the rocky mountains and has an area of 3 square miles ye yet high thigh a as it is is once upon a time as the story hooks books of our juvenility used to say it was part of the sea which retired by 1 the e upheaval of the rocks and that great basin took its salt water up with it should this in in time evaporate an and 1 I its salt become covered with mud and sand and the land again be depressed then at some distant future age the people would be wondering how the salt got there little thinking that the mormons cormons had ever built a city t on its shores when it i wa was a great salt lake there are also however salt r rocks taking their place in in regular geo geologic lojo seri series e 8 with other r rocks oc ks interspersed between red sandstone and carboniferous s strata I 1 rata these thele we can only account for a as we do for other stratified tocks rocks viz that they were deposited from their solution in in water or carried mechanically to tho the spot where now found by that I 1 ivor ex cr noble nobl liquid e fear we w e sh bw be accused of an attempt to put our readers in pickle I 1 so well stay our pen hoping they will 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