Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-15
EVER YTHING is SOLUBLE

EVERYTHING IS SOLUBLE
WHAT is soluble? Sugar in water? That's easy;
w although you have to be born in Kentucky to
perform the trick in the mint julep trade
Is glass soluble in water? Offhand. we say We
are wrong It is You can try it yourself Take an
ordinary eght-ounce water glass, glass that holds
eight ounces, grind it up to powder. and pour the
powder into another glass full of water. and stir it up
Then analyze it, if this is above YOU take it round
the to who and he will tell you, and
with truth that the water in that glass had actually
dissolved three per cent OF the glass powder Glass IS
soluble, nearly soluble as bichlor1d of mercury.
Everything is soluble in water. Furthermore, every
thing in the universe is soluble in everything else in the
universe. That is what they telling now, and
the who tell perform astonishing expert
ment right before your eyes to make more than half
believe them.
They take bar of gold and a bar of lead. They lay
bar top of the other. Then they sit around and
smoke cigars and wait say, year Then they take the
two bars and analyze them chemically. In the gold
bar they find lead In the lead bar they find gold Gold
and lead soluble in each other. If haven't time
to wait year to find out, the trick be performed
in a much shorter time All that has to be done is
raise the temperature of the two bars to very ordi
nary heat. three hundred or four hundred degrees
Fahrenheit. With this added heat the results are
reached overnight. Traces Of gold found all the way
through the lead bar, and vice
The theory is that all substances. whether gold
butter leather, really composed of the smallest
kind of small PARTICLES about the size of the particles
making up the tail of the late amented comet, which
described as the elemental essence of notngness
These particles. which much bigger than
as mountain compared to Il mouse. in notion re-
volvng round each other faster than thought much the
same as the planets revolVe round the If our mi
croscopes big enough a chunk of gold would APP
pear to our eyes much the Il fly hopper full of
flies he kind of hoppers they keep in the cheese de-
partment of country grocery store in August). The
particles buzzng and jumping much the same as
these flies When bar of gold comes in contact with
bar of lead their respective revolving buzzing particles
get together and get acquainted. hey go exploring,
and lost and before long instead of having bar Of
pure lead and bar of pure gold, have two bars IF
alleged metals
This discovery has upset all sorts OF scientific cslcll-
lations If everything is soluble in everything elsc.
and scientists go duplicating the gold-lead
ample without end-how anything exist in pure
state? 1t can't Chemists dispense chemicals under the
label &C p" chemically pure but if a DR.. Wiley
got after them the strict letter of the theory he
would send them all to Jail, because the chances
that all alleged pure chemicals have absorbed little
of everything they in contact with in the process
of their manufacture. Analytic chemists of this day
have to take into account the amount of glass any given
solution contains, when thev testing that solution
in tube. Otherwise their results wouldn't count
for anything
This discovery suggests explanation of that mys-
ferrous element in outdoor life. scent. How hound
trace his quarry? Everything touches dissolvcs
little of him. When his foot falls the ground, he
leaves a trace of himself. In weather in
weather he leaves a bigger than in cold dry
weather. A hound follows damp trail. Usually his
of smell is not enough to follow dry trail
The suggestion that fugitive pursued by bloodhound
actually diSSOvcs few particles of himself every time
his foot touches the ground Just though he a
lump of sugar sounds fncul; but appear
ing and more reasonable in thu light of recent
researches F /. anderson