Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-02-17
A FROZEN THERMOMETER.
Experiments with Mercury i'm Montana
Disguised Professor.

A FROZEN THERMOMETER.
Experiments with Mercury in NIonfana-A
Disguised Professor.
According to the New Northwest.
there has been some remarkably cold
weather in Silver Bow, Montana. A
correspondent of that paper furnishes
the following interesting item of news:
Your favor of the 10th is at hand and
inquiries answered herewith. On the
evening Of January 9Th, several persons
being in my store, and the spirit ther-
n1ometer registering "thirty-fve de-
grees below" the remark was made that
quicksilver would CONCEAL at three de-
grees lower. / requested my clerk, Mr..
Stolte, to thoroughly cleanse q bar
tumbler and partially fill it with quick
silver. We then exposed the glass of
mercury and spirit thermometer on the
roof of the fre-proof on the north
side of the store, giving them as
nearly equal exposure as possible.
An hour after the thermometer
marked "38 degrees below" but the
quicksilver remained unchanged. At
800 P. NJ. the thermometer stood "forty
degrees below" still the quicksilver
was alive, but terribly cold. At $40
+. M. the spirit indicated "forty-one
degrees below" the quicksilver was
hardening on the outside. A few min
utes later the thermometer stood
"forty-two degrees below" I picked
up the tumbler of quicksilver, and to
my astonishmnnt found it completely
solidified hard as rock. I carried
it into the store and several persons ex-
amined it; it remained in that condition
some time before it showed life.
On January 10th, at II P. NJ, the
thermometer stood thirty-fve deg rees
below; January 18th, at seven 4. NJ.
forty-four degrees below. On theev
ing of January 9TH, the register was
forty six degrees below. This is the
coolest weather we have had.
Under date of January 18th the cor
respondent adds the following, ex-
pressed in the peculiar style of the
West: "Jack Frost held the best hand
last night, and played it as follows: At
9:45 P. M. the thermometer stood fifty
degrees below; at 1870 P. NJ, fifty -four
below; at IL 80 P. NJ, fifty six below"
The weather locals of the Northwest
make up an interesting collection. The
following are few specimen bricks:
AS the stage came through Blackfoot
on Tuesday evening, nobody could tell
how cold it was; all the thermometers
were frozen. The Independent of
Thursday contains an account of the
freezing to death of four Cinnamon,
going down the gulch below town. A
couple of gentlemen of this burg intend
to procure and place on the summit of
Mount Powell, next fell, to remain
through the winter, registering spirit
thermometer, graduated down about
two feet below zero. The interest of
the record would be increased if they
could attach to it self-registering al
manac.
The worst Disguised man in Deer
Lodge, this winter, is Granville Stuart,
Esq, the most careful thermometrical
observer in Montana. Anticipating a
possible spell of weather that themercu-
rial thermometers would be inadequate
to record, he sent to New York for a
fine spirit thermometer, for which he
was charged spirited price. It arrived
in good season, but ON examining it it
was found to be only graduated to thir-
ty degrees below zero. He says it is
good enough summer thermometer, but
&c isn't calculated for this kind of a win
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