"It was noticed that while the raw sewage filters very slowly, so that 500 c.c. required 96 hours to pass through a paper filter, the electrically treated sewage settled well and filtered rapidly.

Writing on a July day from his office in Whitehall, he says, after speaking of the heat of the weather,"Time has often been compared to a river: if the Thames at London represent the stream of traditional wisdom, the comparison will indeed be of an ill odor; the accumulated wisdom of the past will be proved upon analogy to be as it were the collected sewage of the centuries; and the great problem, how to get rid of it.

"Cissie, that's street-corner scumthe dirty sewage" "They make you feel naked," went on Cissie in the monotone that succeeds a fit of weeping, "and ashamedand afraid."

"Cissie, that's street-corner scumthe dirty sewage" "They make you feel naked," went on Cissie in the monotone that succeeds a fit of weeping, "and ashamedand afraid."

The settled sewage was not in this condition, as it rapidly underwent putrefaction, even in contact with air, in two or three days.