Since then, we have made a calculation, by which we are satisfied that in the single items of tea and coffee, it will save to the inhabitants of this city annually, not far from 90,000 dollars. To this may be added the improvement of the public health, and the consequent saving in medicine, and physicians' fees, a sum probably exceeding that above specified ; the increase of the working days, and the extension of the average period of working ability

among the laboring classes ; and lastly, the moral and intellectual advancement of the entire population, attendant upon the improvement of their physical condition ;

each of which is not an unimportant item in the aggregate of public prosperity and happiness.

Such are some of the facts connected with this important fluid --water. So common and abundant is it in nature, that we are apt to overlook its value ; but we

need .only be deprived of it for a season, when we shall set a due estimate upon its importance. Pure and sparkling to the eye, bland and refreshing to the taste, whether it bubbles up from mother earth, gurgles in rills, flows along in streams and

rivers, or spreads out in lakes and oceans, it every where proves a blessing,- -- and ought to be universally regarded as one of the most inestimable gifts of Providence to man. As it is the only fluid capable of quenching thirst, so it is the only one compatible with the prolonged duration of animal life --we need not add, that as