The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1868-02-07
&C.,. rn.,.a. .iss.t fse.s.

Ono morning in October. found oil the
tomato and pumpkin vines used up and
t;IIed NV fioSt. But the bean vines, the 20.
,,,or, and the cabhsges in rSysgsrden were
in fine growing order still. Three weeks
oI,erw,ci, frost came agaln, and not find
inc any moro tomatoes and pumpkins, he
laid hold on my pole beans and my Po'a
toes. They turned black and died, a. d
| s,rangled. An old farmer said that this
frost which had killed the potatoes was
real "black frost"
"Ha =" said !, "hlack frost, white frost
do they ever mix ?" 80.
aYou watch aud You'll see the differ
ence," said the old farmer.
And 4 began TO watch. The cabbages
in my garden were not killed yet. ine
chickens have a wonderful good time MP
ming off the thick edges OF the big. tough
leaves. Well I watched to see what the
frost would do next. One morning no.
,;ceJ that the bridges and board walks
were white as snow, but the dirt roads'
gravel walks AMI stone sidewalks could not
show a fieck Of frost. And | saw that there
Was no frost on or near the spikes in the
board walk. but there were spots instead.
Yet remember, one winter day about
noon when things were thawing little,
that the board walks all dried of, leaving a
spot Of frost on every spike, and all the
stone walks and dirt roads were cold and
hanl as ever with snow and ice Every
fall the boards are frosty. while the spikes
and stones are frosty! Funny frost
One day the good woman rhat cooks Tor
us made some doughnuts; some folks call
them fried cakes, they are good. no matter
what they call theml, and when she had
done frying them. she set the hot larl out
nj the door. along side basin Of water to
cool. The Lard and the water both OF
them froze solid that night. and the uext
morning I saw that the frost had made a
holiow in the Lard AMI lump on the water
Frozen lard shrinks, frozen water swells !!
Funny frost, how you do act. And ont in
the harm on beam, had one bottle with
castor oil in il, to oil my carriage wheels
another with meats foot oil for my harness,
another bottle half full Of water. They all
iroze up solid ono cold night and the wa
ter bottle split. But the others did not.
Or the coast OF Nova Scotia and New.
ioundland, sailors often meet icebergs u
hundred feet high. and all the books suy
that there Is nearly six times as much ice
under water as there il above. But when
skating on our canal. the ice lny, all of Il on
top Of the water, AMI none Of il that saw
was under water at all. And yet when ]
break OIL piece of ice and put in pitcher
of water, il floats Just like an iceberg, six
times rs much under water rs above IL.
An Indian was found dead by the road
side. one very cold morning with an empy
rum bottle beside him. He was frozen
stiff. The wise indians came and exam.
ined what had killed him. They decided
that there lad been too much water in his
rum, and the water hal frozen har,l and
killed him. Rum never freezes, but men
with rum in them freeze more easily than
other men who drink cold water only.
Queer, funny frost again.
These are only few Of the curious
things that frost has set mo thinking Of.
lfany one Of the readers can explain NIL
these curious things,they will be wiser than
some professors in our colleges. And pro-
tessors are the wisest people know Of.