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An Inexhaustible bottle.--At the encampment of the First Massachusetts regiment, near the Chain Bridge, above Washington, a pleasant discovery was made.
Noticing a leaky spot on the hillside, an ingenious Yankee inserted a bottle, with the bottom knocked off, and a copious stream of pure water spouted forth.
It is called the “inexhaustible bottle,” but, unlike that of the wizard, it gives forth but one kind of beverage — a health-giving and purifying fluid, .such as slaked the thirst of the Israelites when Moses smote the rock, and which the Saviour of mankind imbibed when he met the good woman at the well of Samaria.--National Intelligencer, June 28.
Van Nostrand. New York, New York. 1862.
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