Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1913-04-10
SOLUBLE?
Everything In the Universe Is.
Say the Scientists.
GLASS D!SSOLVEs IN WATER.


sorb Particles Of the Other-Solid
Matter a Mass of WhirIing. Atoms.
What is soluble: Sugar in water?
That's easy. although YOU have to be
t"tn IN Nentl~ky to perform the trick
a -, !..J.st .j..rp trade.
=, %llHs sO.Hble in water: OiThund
we .ny 10 We are wrong. 1t is. You
can Try it yourself.
Take an ordinary eight ounce water
glass, I; glass that holds eight ounces.
grind it up to IL powder and pour the
powder into another glass full of water
and stir it up. Then analyze it. or. if
this is above you. take it around the
corner to IL man who car. and he will
tell you. and with truth. that the wa
ter in that glass had actually dissolved
3 per cent of the glass powder.
Glass is soluble, nearly as soluble as
bichloride of mercury
Everything is soluble in water.
Furthermore. everything in the uni
verse is soluble in everything else in
the universe. That is what they are
telling us now. and the men who tell
us can perform an astonishing expert
ment right before your eyes to make
you more than half believe them.
They take a bar of gold and a bar of
lead. They lay one bar on top Of the
other. Then they sit around and smoke
cigars and wait, say u 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 are soluble in each other.
If you haven't time to wait a year to
find out, the trick can be performed in
much shorter time. All that has to be
done is to raise the temperature Of the
two bars to a very ordinary heat-say
heat the same results are reached over
night. Traces of gold are found all the
way through the lead bar and vice
versa.
The theory is that all substances.
whether gold or butter or leather, are
really composed Of the smallest kind
of small particles-about the size Of the
| particles making up the tail of the late
lamented comet. which were described
as the elemental essence of nothing
ness. These particles. which are as
much bigger than IN atom as a noun
tain compared to a mouse, are in mo-
ton, revolving round each other faster
than thought. much the same as the
planets revolve round the sun.
If u microscopes We're big enough a
chunk of gold would appear to our
eyes much the same as a fly hopper
full of flies (the kind of hoppers they
keep in the cheese department of a
country grocery store in August). The
particles are buZzing and jumping
much the same as these flies.
When q bar of gold comes in contact
with a bar of lead their respective re-
volving buzzing particles get together
and get acquainted. They go explor.
ing and are lost, and before long, in.
stead of having a bar Of pure lead and
a bar of pure gold we have two bars
Of alleged metals.
This discovery has upset all sorts OF
scientific calculations. If everything is
soluble in everything else-and scien.
lists can 60 or duplicating the gold.
lead example without end-how car
anything exist in a pure state? 1t can't,
Chemists dispense chemicals under
the label &C. P" or chemically pure,
but if a DR.. Wiley got after them Oh
the strict letter of the new theory he
would send them all to Jail, because the
chances are that all alleged pure chem
icals have absorbed a little of every.
thing they came in contact with in
the process of their manufacture.
Analytical chemists of this day have
to take into account the amount OF
glass any given solution contains
when they are testing that solution III
test a tube. Otherwise their results
wouldn't count for anything.
This discovery suggests an eXplana
ton of that mysterious element in out
door life. scent. How can a hound
trace his quarry? Everything a mar
touches dissolves a little of him. Wher
his foot falls on the ground he leaves
a trace of himself. In warm weather
or in wet weather he leaves a bigger
trace than in cold or dry weather. A
hound follows a damp trail. Usually
his sense of smell is not acute enough
to follow a dry trail.
The suggestion that a fugitive pur
sued by a bloodhound actually dis
solves a few particles Of himself every
time his foot touches the ground, just
as though he We're a lump of sugar in
water, sounds fanciful. but it is an
pearing more and more reasonable in
the light of recent researches.-F. L
Anderson in Chicago Record-Herald.