Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-11-17
Latest Achievements of Science.

In The Nineteenth Century Prince
Kropotkin sums up, as well as scien-
tific writer could be expected to sum up
anything, the results of the latest re-
searches Of the physicists and chemists,
telling just where we stand at present
in these matters.
The inextricable connection between
physics, chemistry and mechanics is one
of the facts which a present day inves-
tigator in either of the fields must meet
and consider One line cannot be pur-
sued without the others The present
theory of the atoms within a molecule
is no longer that they are motionless,
infinitesimal bodies, but that they
maintain a motion as perpetual as
that Of the planets in the solar system.
The present trend is to account for heat,
light, electricity and even chemical af-
finity through the motions of these
atoms
The kinetic theory of gases generally
accepted is that gas is an aggregat
of molecules flying and pressing equally
in all directions, "bombarding the walls
Of vessels which contain them" The
kinetic theory Of gases has now been
applied to liquids, and that is considered
an important step forward.
For many years the principal objec-
ton brought against Darwin's theory Of
evolution was the absence of missing
links between the different orders Of the
animal creation. The discovery Of fos-
sill missing links has been made within a
few years with such rapidity that anato
mists cannot keep up with the examina
ton of them. The absolute links, one
by one, which show the modern bird to
be descended from the prehistoric liz
ard have been found in fossil remains
Of ancient bird lizards and put together
till not one is wanting in the chain.
The land upon the earth has been ele-
waited and submerged so often that in
vestigators must search over five CONT
nents to trace the links, but this is being
done rapidly. Immense beds Of the
fossil remains of the intermediate forms
have been found recently in Utah, Col
orado and Wyoming, in North America,
and in the Argentine Republic and Pata-
gonia, in South America. America seems
to have a mortgage on missing links.
In the Wyoming beds have been found
the probable ancestors" of all the
higher orders of quadrupeds, from the
FIVE toed animal to the one toed horse
and the two toed COW and pig. Even
the forerunners of the present day rats
have been found in these wonderful
beds.
Bacteriology is science that has de-
veloped with too much rapidity appar-
emily, for no sooner is fact supposed to
be established than another is uncovered
that upsets the first one. 1t is now gen.
orally accepted that many diseases, in
fictitious and otherwise, have each its
own particular microbe that gets into
the blood either through air, water or
food and does its deadly work. This
work would be even more deadly than
it is only for remarkable theory which
is also accepted as fact by leading biol
ogists. 1t is that in the body and blood
Of every living creature there are mil
lions and millions Of other living crea-
tures-microscopic existences-thatf fight
with one another as ferociously as If they
were six feet high and had gun
In short, the struggle for life goes on
in an animal body just as it does in the
large world. There are good microbes
and bad microbes The good microbes
are called leucocytes, and they are free
living cells that wander about in the
blood. II disease microbes come into
the blood, the leucocytes attack and de-
vour them. provided the Ieucocytes are
healthy and strong enough; otherwise
the disease microbes get the better OF the
leucocytes, and the man falls III.