The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-11-11

mad ali has houses and furniture blown Off and
raj OF bis family badly crippled Samuel Lambert,
bonses &c gone-w wife and other persons badly me-
iured } Deadly, houses, Sc, blown OF J. hing,
40 Mrs Higgins, DO, and herself badly crippled.
Mrs Raglan, do aud herself and negro man crippled.
Calvin Mccoy, do, and several OF ms iamiiy GRIP
oled. DR. Martin, do. Mrs. Buekhart, do Tho
mas SMITH do G. N. Halls steam saw mill roof
blown If grist mill aud houses blown entirely away
damage about 81 ,2Oo
We have heard OF several others killed and wound.
ed and much property injured, ou, donot know
the nart,culsrs We have no idea that the hall has
been told or vet heard of the loss Of lives and De.
s,ruelion Of property occasoned by this awful TOR.
nado
ON THE POWER OF THE HUMAN BODY TO
RESIST HEAT.
II was long believed that the human body could
not be safely exposed, even Tor snort umei 10 De-
gree of he al much exceeding that which Is met VII.
M hot climates. This opinion, which We know nov
TO be erroneous, strengthened ~ The result oL
some experiments made BY The celebrated faLrel-
heit himself, and related by Boerhaaye. Some sn-
mails were shut up ia sugar-baAers stoNe, where
the mercury stood al LAG degs. sparrow died 90
less than seven minutes, a cat IN rather more thar
quarter Of an hour, and dog III about twenty-eg't
minutes The norious ar OF the stove had probably
more 10 do with the speedy deaths oil these animals
than the heat
been discovered by accident Ia the year 1850 and
1861, NJ. Nj. Duhamel and Jiet were appoiute4 "
devise means OF destroying an insect Which
consumed the grain IN the province oil Angoumas,t
France They found that this could De done BY rub.
lectng the corn, and the insects contained 10 IT, lA BE-
oven 10 a degree of heat great enough 10 Kill th, BIS
sect but not great 10 hurt the grain. In order
TO ascertain the precise heat of the oven, they intro.
duced into il a thermometer placed upon the end Of
a long shovel. The mercury, when the 'thermomeler
/ 4. "A. ale
heat considerably above that of boiling water Bu,
MIR. Jillet was aware that the thermometer had sunk
several degrees II was drawn towards the mouth
OF the oven.
While he was puzzled TO invent some way of deter.
mining more exactly the actual degree OF heat
GIRL who was Of the attendants, offered to 20 m
and mark it'll pencil the height at which the mer.
curry stood and she did enter the oven and remained
there two three minutes and then marked he
thermometer at 100 degrees Of Reaumar, which
nearly equals 260 degrees Fahrenheit. NJ JlIIe,
then began to express some anxiety for the safety
the girl out she assured him she felt no ncon,en.
ence and remained in the oven ten minutes longer
during which time the mercury reached the 2ss de
grees OF Fahrenheit's scale-denoting 76 degrees OF
neat above that Of water when il boils. When .hG
came out her complexion was considerably heighlen.
ed, but her respiration was by no means gu ok Ii.
borous. Thislexperment was afterwards repeated.
Another girl renamed 10 the oven as long the for
mer had done, at the temperature, and with
te
space OF five minutes, air heated TO about 325 le.
grees of Fahrenheit-or ll3 degrees above that Of
boiling water.
The publication Of these facis naturally cited I'm.
curiosity of scientific men, and Other experiments
instituted. Dr. Dobson, of Liverpool and
several other persons with him. shut themselves up in
the sweating of the hospital lhere-the air huy-
ing been heated till the mercury stood 22i DEGREES
of Fahrenheit They did experience shy OPP
pressve on painful sensation Of heat Dr. Forlyce
and Dr.. Blasden made some remarkable trials Of The
same kind. They entered rooms artifcally heated TO
very high degree, sometimes naked and g, metjme-
with their clothes on, and bore the extraordinary ten
perature of 26O, and ESQ degrees for consider
able lime with very little Inconvenience Ia all ikose
experiments At found that the animal heat a. as
cerained 10y thermometers placed under the tongue o..
grasped in the hand scarcely increased s, ail
and respiration hot little affected but the pulse was
very much qulckened The frequency Of Dr. az
deus pulse In one instance was doubled. Their
watch chains and other pieces of metal about theu
became SO no; that they could scarcely be ,ouched--
When they oreathed upon the Thermometer the mcr.
curry Immediately niak several degrees. Every 90, or
ttsIation produced pleasant feeling of )onr-- in
w.. Ills, and they cooled their gers by hr,sthn,
uP ~ In aud ~ the same heated air vt.cn
they re-Preo rqes roasted quIte nau IA ty,rv
minutes end beei-steaks We're dressed in thirty-tf,s
minutes. And when the air wa, biovn un,n ,I
meat by means Of bellows it Was .u6ic,n,ly col
IN thirteen minutes.
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