Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-03-11
WHAT IS SOLUBLE?
Everything In the Universe Is,
Say the Scientists.
GLASS DISS0LVES IN WATER.

And IL q Bar Of Gold b Placed Upon
Bar Of Lead Each In Time viii Ab-
sorb Particles Of the Othsr-eolid
| Matter a Mass Of WhirIino Atoms.
What is soluble? Sugar in water?
That's easy, although you have to be
born in Kentucky to perform the trick
in the mint julep trade.
Is glass soluble In water? Ohhand
we say no. We are wrong 1t is YoE
can try it yourself.
Take an ordinary eight ounce water
glass, a glass that holds eight ounces,
grind 1t up to a powder and pour the
powder into another glass full Of water
and stir it up. Then analyze it. or. II
this is above you, take it around the
corner to man who can, 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 III
tho 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 bar Of gold and bar or
lead. They lay one bar on 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 are soluble in each other.
II you haven't time to wait 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 very ordinary heat-say
800 or 400 degrees F. With this added
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 tho
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 an atom as a NOUN
tain compared to mouse. are in mo-
ton, revolving round each other faster
than thought, much the same as the
planets rcvolve round the sun. b.
} II our microscopes were big enough a
chunk Of gold would appear to our
eyes much the same as fly Hopper
full Of flies (thc kind Of hoppers they
keep in the cheese department Of a
J country grocery store in August). The
particles are buzzing and jumping
much the same as these flies.
When a bar of gold comes in contact
! with a bar Of lead their respective re-
volving buzzing particles get together
; and get acquainted. They 80 explor-
ing and are lost. and before long, In
stead Of having bar Of pure lead and
bar of pure gold we have two bars
} Of alleged metals.
3 This discovery has upset all sorts of
. scientific calculations. II everything Is
soluble in everything else-and scien-
lists can go on duplicating the gold
: lead example without end-how can
: anything exist in pure state? 1t can't.
Chemists dispense chemicals under
l the label &C. F." or 'chemically pure"
! but If a DR.. Wiley got after them on
the strict letter of the new theory he
would send them all to jail, because the
chances are that all alleged pure chem
J icals have absorbed a little Of every
: thing they came in contact with in
l the process Of their manufacture.
l Analytical chemists Of this day have
: TO take into account the amount OF
, glass any given solution contains,
, when they are testing that solution In
t test tube. otherwise their results
wouldn't count for anything.
This discovery suggests an explana.
, ton Of that mysterious element in out
t trace his quarry? Everything man
touches dissolves little Of him. When
his foot fails on the ground lie leaves
trace Of himself. In warm weather
or in wet weather lie leaves bigger
trace than in cold or dry w1other. a
r hound follows a damp trail Usually
! his sense Of smell Is not acute enough
: to follow dry trail.
. The suggestion that a fugitive pur'
a sued by a bloodhound actually dis
/. solves few particles Of himself every
time his foot touches the ground, just
as though he We're lump Of sugar in
water. sounds fanciful. but It is ap'
7 pearing more and more reasonable In
? the light Of recent researches.-F. l.
t Anderson in Chicago Record Herald
! HE Mistake.
t ION my way to church !: picked up
| h,iftnn and inf n in my change DOck.