The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-05-13
The FUTURE.

The chemical possibilities of the future are say the
least interesting food for reflection 1t is impossible
set limit to the wonders which the chemist may hereaf-
ter accomplish Great has been the advance of this
ence wide and unexpored fields still left open ex
pertinent and discovery 1t impossible the day may
come when the whole human aye the globe it
self rest at the mercy of the humble chemist This
sounds like the widest exaggeratOn but to-day such
is nearly the poison has been recently discover
ed the one Ousdndh part Of grain of which, combined
with the atmosphere of goOdsized hail. would fatally
poison audience of hundr Ten pounds of this life
destroying substance intimately combined with forty
miles of atmosphere would kill all air breathing animals
and leave the world for ages unnhabitable
Gases may be found, few of which disseminated
abroad would scatter death rromiscuously through
wide region Similar gases impercepble the most del
cae tests set loose by the hand of nature which, in
nearly incredibly brief time spread disease and death
through the length and breadth of continent. AS in
stances might cite the equine epizootc the Influenza
cholera, &C. How may the chemist, shut within
some obscure den ape the movements of Providence p
send forth the winged messengers of fate to nation
Explosives may be improved that few pounds
would annhilate State-eveD send the Earth flying
of meteOres through space Even during the rebel
lion it proposed by the of a few pounds of
tain chemical destroy Richmond and its surrounding
forts and armies
Should still powerful elements of destruction bo
discovered what wide ruin could one malignant spirit
evoke Some of civilized antecedents driven to des
peratiOn actuaed by the malicious feeling that
induces the Hindoo muck :; or the sentiment
pressed by the Roman Emperor that all mankind had
universal throat that he might have the felicity of cutting
it, Who knows but day this great globe with its
surrounding atomtes may yet disappear like puff of
smoke in grand universal nitro gycerinsh suicide
Lengthy this article is there scores of modern
artists left nnnOtced Prominent among these, is the
whiskey and brandy artist So industrious is he that
of the impossible things to find drop of pure unadu
terated liquor. Ths older the Bourbon the finer the
brandy, the richer the wine the artificial poi
son it contains The higher class of artists New York
Boston, etc, really experts; even rstcIass
chemists These employed by "bightoned' import.
era. When my fast young friend, you wake up Of a
morning believing stomach the furnance of steam
engine your mouth the smoke stack your the steam
but mo- there sat drop of moisture about you-feel
ing though you had been pounded death with pile
driver kicked to death by forty horse power ackass
and afterwards by hafmie freight train know
you have for fun, swallowed strychnne enough to kill
two sulphure acid sufficient to make sieve Of vour
stomach white vtriol enough to make n whale spout
and other drugs Of damned import sufficient to stock an
Arkansas drug store Bacehus You old dotard vou'vs
dropt your jolity and gone into the drug business Give
US the pledge. CRY F,wKPS
SEVERANCE KANSAS, April O. ISIS.