New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-15
EVER YTHING is SOLUBLE

WHAT is soluble; Sugar IN water, hats easy;
w although YOU have to be born in Kentucky 10
perform the trick in the mint jucp trade.
Is glass soluble in water; Ofhand, we say no. We
are wrong 1t IS You can try it yourself Take an
ordinary eight-ounce water glass glass that holds
eight ounces grind it up to powder, and pour the
powdcr into another glass full Of water and stir up
Then analvze it. or if this is above you take it round
the corner to a man who and he will tell YOU, and
with truth that the water in that glass bad actually
dissolved three per cent. Of the glass powder Glass
soluble nearly as soluble as bichlond OF mercury.
Everything is soluble in water. Furthermore every.
thing in the universe is soluble in cverythn, else in the
universe That is what they are telling u now, and
the men who tell us can perform astonishing exrori-
ment right before your eyes to make you more than half
believe them.
They take a bar Of gold and bar Of lead. They lay
one bar on top Of the other Then they SIT around and
smoke cigars and wait, say year. hen they take the
two bars and analyzc them chemically IN the gold
bar they find lead In the lead bar they IND gold. Gold
and lead are soluble in each other Il you haven't tine
to wait year TO find out the trick can be performed
in much shorter time All that has 10 be done is 10
raise the temperature OF the bars 20 very ord.
nary heat say three hundred four hundred degrees
Fahrenheit With this added heat the same results are
reached overnight Traces Of gold are found a The way
through the lead bar, and vice versa.
The theory is that all substances, whether gold
butter or leather, really composed Of The smallest
kind Of small particles about the size OF the particles
making no the tail Of the late laWcntCd comet which
ra lncribcd as the elemental essence If uuhingneSS
These particles which much bigger than an atom
as mountain compared 10 a mouse. are m motion.
oyrg round each other faster than thought much the
same rs the planets rcvolvc round the sun II our MI
croscopcs were big enough, a chunk o gold would APP
pear To our eyes much the same as fly hopper ul Of
flies uhc kind Of hoppcr they keep IN the cheese de-
partmcnt Of q country grocery store IN August Ihe
uarticcs are buzzing and jumping much the same as
these flies When bar Of gold comes in contact with
bar IF lead their respective revolving buzzng particles
get together and get acquainted. hey 60 exploring
and are lost and before long, instead oi having bar
pure lead and bar Of pure gold, we have Two bars
aloycd metals.
This discovery has upset all sorts Of scientific gacu-
Iations If everything is soluble in everything o,c-
and scientists can 90 on duplicating the go'd-ead eX
ample without end how can anything exist IN pure
state, Il can't Chemists dispense chemicals under the
label "C. T.. or chemically pure but Il Dr. Whey
got after them on the strict letter Of the new theory he
would send them all % JAIL because the chances are
that an alleged pure chemicals have absorbed little
Of everything they came in contact with IN the process
Of their manufacture. Analytical chemists Of this lay
have % take into account the amount II glass an. gwen
solution contains when the" testing that .Eion
I'm a test tube Otherwise their results wouldu count
for ANYTHING.
Tm, discovery suggests an explanation Of ,ha. "ys-
FERROUS element i'm outdoor li,u scent. How can unt
trace hi, quarry, Everything % man touches a-- Yes
little Of him. When his foot ta,, on the ground. he
leaves "a trace Of himself In warm weather " ID vet
weather he leaves bigger trace than III cold ~ Try
weather. \ hound follows 81 damp trail. l7ra..E us
sense Of smell is not acute enough 90 follow dry .-'
The suggestion that fugitive pursued by blood rnt
actually dssov,s few particles ot himself ever. "uc
his foot touchc. the ground. Just though b. "-. q
lump If sugar I'M water sounds .uotul: but II APPEAR
i-, ,,r,-.. and rrD-, r..-..l d.. I'D 'E. light