The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1913-06-12
WHAT IS SOLUBLE?
Everything In the Universe Is,
Say the Scientists.
GLASS DISSOLvES IN WATER.
And IL q Bar of Gold 30 Placed Upon q
Bar of Lead Each In Time viii Alb.
sorb Particles Of the Other-SoIic
Matter q Mass Of WhirIing Atoms.

sorb Particles Of the Other-Soiid
Matter q Mass Of WhirIins 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? Offhand
we say no. We are wrong. 1t Is. You
can try 1t 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 1t up. Then analyze 1t, or, II
this Is above you, take 1t around the
corner to a man who can, and he Will
tell you, and with truth, that the wa
ter In that glass had actually dissolved
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
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. 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 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
300 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 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 an 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 our microscopes were big enough
chunk of gold would appear to our
eyes much the same as a fly hopper
full of flies 0he 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 bar of gold comes in contact
with 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
i. of alleged metals.
, 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
any tulus eAiSt III pure Stdtcs IL Cdu y
. Chemists dispense chemicals under
the label &c. p" or chemically pure, "
but If 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
: 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
y to take into account the amount OF
: glass any given solution contains
!, when they are testing that solution II
test 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 maj
= touches dissolves little of him. WheI
!, his foot falls on the ground he leave,
y trace of himself. In warm weathe
: or in wet weather he leaves a bigge
= trace than in cold or dry weather. 4
- hound follows a damp trail. Usual,
- his sense of smell is not acute enough
;. to follow dry trail.
. The suggestion that q fugitive pur
sued by a bloodhound actually dis
solves a few particles of himself ever,
time his foot touches the ground. jus
as though he were a lump of sugar II
water, sounds fanciful. but 1t Ia ap
pearing more and more reasonable Il