| Show STUDENTS SOCIETY The regular session of tho Students society so-ciety of the Latterday Saints college convened con-vened as usual last Friday evening February Feb-ruary 13 Instructor J J Walton presiding pre-siding After the opening exercises a I mandolin and guitar selection was rendered jy Messrs Hugh Dougall and George I freeze Dr J E Talmage was then introduced intro-duced and his subject The Force of Cohesion Co-hesion with demonstrations The speaker after a few words of introduction first drew attention to the fact that all matter possesses certain properties characteristic char-acteristic to itself and tnat these properties proper-ties are distinguishable in all matter The retractive and repellant forces of matter were explained retractive force as that tendency in matter to unite with its kind and when it predominates in any substance that substance is a solid if the repellant force prevails the substance is in a gaseous form while when both forces are equally distributed throughout the substance water is the result At this junction definitions of cohesion and adhesion were given cohesion as that force which holds the particles of a body together that is particles of a like kind adhesion as that force which holds together particles that are unlike Demonstrations were performed per-formed illustrative of the force of cohesion Two leaden hemispheres each weighing sixteen ounces were taken their flat surfaces sur-faces being placed together and pressed tightly were made to cohere the process of welding iron was explained and the coherence co-herence shown to be due to the cohesive property of the particles of matter composing com-posing the iron The cohesion of liauids was next referred to and their tendency to form after the particles had como together I to-gether into a sphere which constitutes a perfect bodygeometrical and physical calculations For the purpose of demonstrating this tendendcy of liquids to form a spheroidal shape several experiments were performed the first of which was the mixing of oil and water together to-gether This was done by mixing with the water some alcohol sufficient to establish an equilibrity betweenthe density of the oil and the water A very impressive experiment experi-ment was the mixtilre of the very heavy substance salts of zinc and a very light substance known as iodine This was also performed by equalizing the density of the liquids as in the former experiment except I that water was used instead of alcohol The speaker then referred to the cohesion of solids known generally as crystallization of their compound form of their definite I shape the exactness of their angles and of the tendency of inanimate matters to form I themselves by their inherent properties in i perfect symmetry and order Many specimens speci-mens were distributed among the audience showing conclusively the observance of tho law of order to a high degree in tho mineral min-eral kina om One of them was a piece of crystallfzed quartz in the center of which was a small piece of calcite all to itself and possessing all the peculiarities characteristic character-istic of calcite Another shown was a beautiful beau-tiful garnet upon whose surface was piece of feltspar which IB a very bard substance and along side of it a piece of mica a rather soft mineral each of them possessing their own peculiarities and demonstrating to the careful observer the force of cohesion as found in like particles Order exists said he among the things which we call dead each particle lives the law for which it was I created The earth is tending toward a crystallineform and the day will come when it will become as John tho Revelator saw it a sea of glass every particle of it occupying tho place for which it was created cre-ated The question explain the origin andcustom of Valentine day was answered answer-ed much to the satisfaction of all who listened to Instructor Done The audience was then favored with an k artistically rendered vocal duet I would I bat my Love by Mrs Camilla C Cobb and Instructor Richard Hoag Instructor J J Walton recited Thams Leletter from Dundreary in a manner that convulsed the audience and after a selection lection by the college Glee club the bene diction was pronounced and tho meeting adjourned for one week |
