Year: 1862

liza piece Of silver be put into nitric acid. a
clear aud colovless LIQUID it Is rapidly dissolved:
and vauisbes from sight. The solution Of sill
yer may be mixed with water. and to appear
ance no effect whatever Is pro3uced thus. in
pail Of water We dissolve and render invisible
more than el0 worth OF silver not a particle
Of which can be seen. Not only silver lead,
iron, but every other metal can be treated the
same way with similar results. When charcoal


is burned when candles are burned. when "a.
per IS barned. these substances all disappear,
and become Invisible In fact, every material
which is visible. can by certain treatment, be
rendered Invisible. Matter which in one CON
di;ion is perfectly opaque and viii not admit
the least ray Of ligb; to pass through i. VIII in
another form become qaite transparent The
cause OF this wonderful efec; Of the condition
of matter is utterly uaexPlieable, Phi.oso-
phels do not even breach theories upon the
subject. much less DO they eudeavar 10 explain
( it. The substances dissolved in water or burn.
ed in the air are not, however, DESTROYED or
lost by certain well known means they can
be recovered aud again be rendered visible
some in exactly the same state As they were
before their invisibility; others though not in
the same state, can be shown 10 their eementa
ry condition aud thus It can be proved. that
matter having once existed, never ceases to
exist. although it can change its condition like
+ l, ,b
and gorgeous butterfly. II pafulj of the
solution Of silver be cast into the stream it is
apparently lost by its dispersionin the water
but It nevertheless continues to exist 50
when bushe Of charcoal is burned in a stove
ii disappears in consequence of the gas pro-
duced being mixed with the vast atmosphere;
but yet the charcoal is still in the air On
the brightest and sunniest day, when every
object can be distinctly seen above the horizon.
hundreds of tuns Of charcoal in an iuyi-ih,c
condition pervade the air. Glass is a beautiful
Illustration of the transparency Of 4 comp uUd,
which in truth is nothing but mixture of the
rust Of three metals. This power of matter to
change It's condition, from solid opacity to
limpid transparency, causes some rather puz
zliug phenomena. Substance increases in
weight without any apparent cause for in
stance, plant goes on increasing in weight
hundred fold for every atom that is missing
from the earth in which it is growing. Now
the simple explanation of this is that the
leaves of plants have the power Of Withdrawing
the Invisible charcoal from the atmosphere
and restoring it to lis visible state in some
shape or other. The lungs of animals and
smokeless furnace change matter from its visi-
bic 10 its invisible state. The gls Of fishes
and the leaves Of plants reverse this operation,
rendering invisible or gaseous matter visible.
Thus the balance in nature is maintained, al
though the continual change has been going
on long prior to the creation of the extinct
animals = Chemical Wonders.


Or OF THE WAY, WoMAY.-The Tyrone
pa Democrat is indignant at the removal
from Office of Miss Hannah NJ Stewart, who
was postmistress at that place. James Plum.
mer, Republican politician. has been appoint
ed instead. Plummer, the paper says, only
desired TO escape the draft, and so be sought
and obtained the Office Miss Stewart. who
has thus been removed to make way for this
unselfsh patriot is the daughter of a poor
widow woman whom she supported by means
of the small proceeds Of the Office her two
brothers being both in the army. The editor
thinks that Mr.. Plummer ought to be held up
10 the contempt of all the world, and the edi-
tor is right.


The VIII AND THE WAY.-I learned gram