Show I l' l 1 Professor Kingsbury's Lecture 1 t The following syn synopsis of the interesting interesting interesting inter inter- esting lecture II Chemistry Chern of Water Water- given by Professor Kingsbury on the evening of Friday was omitted omitted omitted omit omit- ted from our last issue through mistake The lecturer by experiment proved the composition of water to be hydrogen and oxygen that ordinary drinking water contains oxygen nitrogen and carbonic acid gas and that water is a a. a great solvent He showed how water may be purified at our homes and wastewater wastewater waste wastewater water disposed of also how grease an and l lother other organic matter may be separated from the wash water and so avoid the filling of our yards with putrid dangerous danger danger- ous substances Streams are not asI as as as' I readily purified of organic matter as many people believe but the water may run for a long distance and still retain much of the m material with which jt t may have hav been contaminated I The kind of water necessary to use usein usein usein in the manufacture of sugar starch in brewing tanning and for boiler purposes purposes purposes pur pur- poses was briefly discussed taking as a basis the leading theory in regard to the crust of the earth it was shown how water would gradually become consumed and by its consumption the atmosphere phere gradually in the far distant future would be changed to hydrogen and nitrogen from the mixture of oxygen and n nitrogen trogen T i I l 1 j |