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Show jT ; ijjii y i jya. Tlicro 7i re sonietliing over 51 0 i'aniilirs in I Ingham City. Striking Strik-ing un unusually low average, say each family consumes for culinary purposes three gallons of water a day ; aggregating 1,000 gallons CityV daily consumption. When our ditch water is in the present muddy condition, each gallon contains con-tains from two to four ounces of sediment. sedi-ment. Taking the lowest figures, twotninces of mud per gallon of wr.ter, our good people take into their ey.-dems 3,000 ounces of sediment sedi-ment each day, equal to 1 s7 A pounds of mud. which amounts to loTJi pounds of mud and filth a good wugon load our denizens wash down into their stomachs each week while the water is hud. Surely we must have better water or wo shall all soon become animated camples of real estate. |