Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1892 — A Solid Fog. [ARTICLE]

A Solid Fog.

The doleterious influence of fogs may be estimated from some results obtained from examination and analysis last month at Kew Gardens,London, England. The director speuks of tho leaves as being covered with a substance liko brown paint—“tarry hydrocarbon - ’ —which can only be scraped otf with a knife. On analysis this shows ovor fifty-one per cent of carbon and hydrocarbon, with forty-one per oent of metallio iron, magnotic oxido of iron, and minoral water. Any ono at all aoquainted with the physiology of plants and animals can apprehend in a monent how such a mixture must afleqt both the lungs of man and the leaves —which are the lungs—of plants, as regards respiration. Strangely enough, the deposit appoured to be more marked at Kew than at Chelsea.—[The Young Man.