The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-01-21

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serts - ~ destiny. s. small nab
stasos - grain Of sAnd il allowed 4
Enee Ae tetee0l place 1t the bott0a. A
nydruaeatte - waier-bed is the easiest oI
coachss, ~ coy, in fact. that some invs-
nos canhet bsar its excessive pliancy aad
cQmpien adaptation to the TO the form d
the sleebef. Hence tho notion Of Des-
cartee ~ Others, that to explaia the
pheonom9oa Of water, its ultimste par.
ticles meat b oblong. smooth and hsx.
ibIe. lying one upon another like eels ia
Bat vstsr 81 4 given temperature, con-
fined, i tf assoundiDg hardness; il il ~
good . incompressibls 1t that tempera.
tafe fer what 10 Z redoctlou !, { from
forty-tour TO forty EIGHT millionth parts Of
its solnmt uadsr : prossuFe equal 70 that
OF the atmosphere {? Many cold matters
wood for instance-csnbe squeezed in-
TO = mu ID smaller than their original
bulk the packers art has attained von-
dertul perfection in inolofing much 10 liz .
tie space but oil the Qaesn's horses and
sH the Queens men cannot put Quart
Of water into pint bottle /; the clevssest
packer in London (Which i saying ! great
desi) cannot econamise the room Of =
tablespoonful. You could sooneF dive .
p4il into soiid cube Of steel, than yop
could drive one into . cube Of water in
closed in 4 perfectly unyieIdiag box. Il
j. the unqpses stability of water which gives
It's enormous strength to the hydraulic
press, The hardness Of wster may be felt
by striking Its surface smsrily With the
open haod !; the quality 10 ala known to
unfortunate swimmers who intended TO
pitch into the water headforemost, fall Gas
on their stomschs instead.
Iure water is at ito greatest destiny, Of
heaviest aud most contracted, assfour do
grees, ceutigrsts 60 avoid fractionsl or
at exactly thirty nine degrees of Fahfen-
heit, that is at seven degrees above the
free.ing point but it tue temperature
ob:nges. either way, the water OF paods
From the MAXIMUM destiny up to the boiI-
point, the expansiou amounts to the four
hundredth part Of its volumes mere
nothing. 1t it cool below its maximum
destiny. il still expands up 10 the freezing
point. Consequently, water which 10 near
the point of freezing is lighter than water
that is only just = trifs warmer. 1t
therefore rises and floats on the surface,
allowing the warmer stratum OF water ID
sink. Rives aud lakes, therefore, freeze
from the top downward which would not
boppen'wero tho density of water TO con-
tinuc TO increase with increasing cold,
and the fish and water-weeds remain un-
il: ured. Were the case othene than it
tiff our Streams and pools fro1s from
the bottom--iu long continued frosts, they
would become SOLID blocks OF ice aqua
tic plants and animals would perish and
even in cases Of partial freezing. the thav
aud the return to normal ttate OF things
would be much more tardy than under
exiting circumstances. Water still fur.
Their expands at its conversion into Joe !;
but with that We have nothing to do. Ice
Is not water, and with water alone We are
dealing at present.
Colder than the freezing point water is
ice; hotter than the boiling point water
is steam. But not long since the Com 10
Henri Russell, after encountering City de-
grees Of coin in Asiatic Siberia-and mer-
curry freezes at forty eight degrees-had
to bear CITY degrees Of heat in Australia.
When We rember that water ersporasss
rapidly at temperature far below the
boiling point, We see 1t once what tran
STORY, fleeting, changeful thing it is
While We are looking n it, it 10 gone ;
before We can seize il. il Slips through our
fingers. Indeed, according to Boyle and
others. water is crystal melting At q low
temperature. whose normal condition is
that Of ice in other words, water is N
unnatural state of ice; whenever il il not,
it ought to be ice. Heat dissolves ice In
to water jus as it dissolves butter into
oil. Butter aud ice. nevertheless, are the
proper forms for those liquide to appear
in.
Pure water is protoyids ofhydrogen.--
1t is hydrogen rnsted, add thai thorough
ly and completely, ~ muph ~ iron.rast i
oxide of iron; only The rusting i done
simultaneously instead odgradually. Here
again We b ave two s.parlae taradexes il
one. Firstly, hydrogen 10 the lightssl
form OF matter kDown, e1eepl the other
which We don't know Two volumes Of
this iighsest gas combined With one volume
OF oxygen, gas only tiife heavier thar
air, form fluid whose weight We haze
just been wondering A.
Secondly, OK, gen 10 ed,iueatly the sus
taiaer Of combnslioo, the life and soul o.
Ere; and hydfogeu is he combussibl'
which iilumioatss our cities, warns on,
apartments, cooks our fdod, and hills u,
bg its iil-timed explosions. And JET thes,
two together constitute the agent which
We daily employ, on The smalIest and tt,
largest scale, to extingui|'h Gre yerely
there are more things in heaven and eartl
than we're dfeamt of, Il, Shakespeare
ie his philosophy.
Wlen the scordful mother launched