Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1895-05-30
is ARGON THE LINK :
THE NEW GAS SEEMS TO EXPLAIN
-4E MYSTERIES OF SCIENCE.

THE MYSTERIES OF SCIENCE.
It Causes the Wonderful "Aurora" and
Bears a Curious Relation to Electricity.
Heat and I.isht-aIny BE the Primal
Cause of Life.
The aurora borcalis has now been /
explained as the work of arson, the
element III the atmosphere revealed to
Che scientific worls only Il few months
ago. and savnnts arc asking i'll amaze
ment what further chemical discoveries
are impending. Mysteries which for
ages have puzzled men Of science may,
it is pointed ont, find their solution in
argon. Il basic clement hitherto unsus-
pectcd, which is destroying all the old
laws and setting up ncw ones.
Who is to say where the frenzy of en-
pertinent which has now seized the sci
entitic world over this new substance
may not end:
Whocan tell what revolutions are inn
pending us the new gas is condensed
and tested and us one scientist after an
ether contributes the results of his work
to the general knowledge?
But few months ago and argon was
unknown. and now the aurora, natures
noblest phenomenon and Il never ending
puzzle to scientists, is explained by its
action. A few months or even weeks
hence 10 one can tell what other mys-
teries may not also be solved and from
day to day the field is broadening i'll the
pathway of discovery along which the
thoughts of the scientific world are now
directed. A gas present i'll stupendous
quantity has been found which reveals
strange qualities and hears Il relation
ship to light aud heat that is yet 1nys-
FERROUS Without it hannah life would
be impossible, and under its influence
electricity is curiously affected.
Tested under the spectloscopc. argon
is found to have light giving qualities
1t is also mySterioasly affected by heat
and cold. AT these phenomena the men
of science are astornded. Here, it is adj
mittcd, may he Il discovery greater than
that of electricity, more revolutionary
i'll its effects than that of steam itself.
The primal and hitherto undreamcd
of cause of many of the forces of nature
may ut last have been unearthed. There
is hypnotism. for instance, a strange,
mysterious force, we'll recognized. hut
unexplained by known laws Argon, it
is suggested. may lie at the bottom of
this scientific mystery. BY breathing it
into the lungs i'll greater or less quanti-
ty the human system may become
charged with this new gas, which, hay
e
affect the wills of other individuals
LII medicine this new gas, which, con-
densed. looks like cheese, may play Il
most important part, yielding to the
physician drugs and fluids of the great
est potency. 1t may euro diseases, re-
fresh exhausted natures and be the veri-
table elixir of life which shall Danish
DEATH Affecting the brain, it may OK
eel opium or alcohol in exllilalation,
und emotions like fear or love may be
under its control. In explosive force ar
gon may excel dynamite. Being lighter
than air, argon may lift balloons to IL
Irritable heights and cause men to fly.
The cause of the aurora. it may dispel
the night. 1t may be the essential prill-
ciplc of electricity. tie potential force
of energy or that missing link of sci
ence. the primal cause OF life.
These are few Of the outcomcs of ar
gon which are now visible to the scicn-
titic mind us results att,inablc in the
near future. No one can tell what dis.
coveries are ut hand while the news OF
;lrgon's solution of the aurora is still,
fresh from the laboratory
1t WAS the eminent French scientist
Professor Berthelot, who sought to as
certain whether argon might not es
plain the aurora and whose work E;n
now been crowned with victory. Hc
says:
During experiments III passing cleo
trio currents through argon mixed Will
benzine obtained splendid displays OF
Of the aurora bo1ealis. Testing thes,
with the spectrcscope, the Identification
seemed fully confirmed. twill be ncccs
sary to investigate further with large
quantities Of the new gas, but the re
suits already obtained certainly sugges
that the aurora borealis is caused by thu
action of electric currents upon the ar
gon and other elements i'll the atmos
plere. New York World
Let 1t Pass.
The title of the novel, "ships Tia
Pass In the Night, has been kneadee
over, turned over, twisted inside out ant
outside i'll, beheaded, detailed and sub
jected to every possible form of transpo
sition by the newspaper paragrapher
It's time to stop now. Let us ASSUME
that all the ships have passed and til
dawn is breaking and hunt up scmethin.
else for the paragraphs that pass i'll tn
day.-New York Mail and Express
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