Tooele Transcript Bulletin | 1917-01-05 | Page 6 | Overlooked Points in Wager

overlooked points in wager A wager Is sald said to have been won by sir walter raleigh from queen elizabeth on the question of how much smoke la Is contained in it pound of virginia tobacco A pound of the weed was weighed burned and then weighed again in ashes the question was held to bo be satisfactorily settled by determining that the weight of tile the smoke was exactly that of the tobacco before being burned minus the residuum of ashes the fact that the ashes had received additional weight by combining with the oxygen of tho the atmosphere and the further fact that certain gases were evolved in the process of c combustion in were of by the queen and sir walter the knowledge of f such things not having then been revealed