The People's vindicator., 1875-07-10
A FROZEN Thermometer.
EXPERIMENT. WITH MERCURY IN
MONrANA-.A AIDIsTrNGUIsED PROFESSOR.

According Ito tho New Northwest,
there has been soine remarkably cold
weather in Silver Bow, Montana. A
correspondent It of that paper furnish.
es the following interesting item of
''Ys Your favol of tho Il 10th is at hand,
and inquiries answered herewith.
On The event pg of January 9Th, seve-
raj persons being III my store, and
the spirit thermometer registering
"35 deg, bblow," the remark was
made that quicksilver would CONCEAL
at three degrees lower. l requested
nv clerk, MIR. Stolte, to thoroughly
cleanse a bd dr tumbler AMI partially
i5sa Pt5,.. !. with quicksilver. We then ex
spirit therm$ms1eaff IN JmaegGprY ECU Yvaa!n and the
Gre-proof o4 the north side of the
store, giving them as nearly equal
exposure as possible. An hour after
the thermometer marked 30 deg. be.
low, but tho quicksilver still remain
ed unchanged. At 9:2O p. m. the
thermometer stood 40 deg. below !;
still the qui4 4ksilver was live, but ter
ribly cold. At 9:40 p. m. tho spirit
indicated Al deg. below; the quick
silver was | hardening on the outside.
A few minut ca later the thermometer
stood AZ deg below. picked up the
tunbler of quicksilver, and to my as
tonishment fband it completely solid
itied-as hard as a rock. / carried
it into the store, and several per-
sons examined it, it remaining in
that condition some time before it
showed life.
On Januaty 10, at IL p. m., the
thermometer stood IS deg. below !;
January IL, At 2 q. m., ii deg. below !;
January II, y p. M, 36 below. Ou
the evening Of January 8, the evening
above mentioned, at 1890 p. m., the
register was 46 deg. below. This is
the coolest weather wo have had.
Under date of January IA, the cor.
respondent adds the following news,
expressed in the peculiar style of tho
West: "Jack Frost held the best hand
last night, and played it as follows !:
At 9:45 p. nd |. the thermometer stood
so deg. below |; at 1890 p. H., 81 deg.
below /; at 1890 p. m. Sc deg. below" :"
The weather locals of the North
west make up an interesting collec.
tion. The fol lowing are few speci'
men bricks:
As the stage came through Black
foot on Tnebday evening, nobody
could tell ho " cold it was; all the
thermometers were frozen. The ln-
dependent, of Thursday, contains an
account Of the freezing to death Of
four Chinamep b, going down the gulch
below town. A couple of gentlemen
pfaHb: gu tre,- hntmt ot mount 1owtff;
next fall, to remain through the win
ter, a registered spirit thermometer,
graduated down about two feet be-
low zero. The b interest Of the record
would be incf feased if they could at.
tach to it a self-registering almanac.
The most dissusted man in Deer
Lodge this winter is Granville Stuart,
Esq, the most careful thermometrical
observer in Montana. Anticipating
possible spell Of weather that the
Inercurial thermometers would be in.
adequate to record, he sent to New
York for q fine spirit thermometer,
for which he was charged spirited
price. It arrived in good season, but
on examining it it was found to I've
only graduated to thirty degrees be-
low zero. He says it il q good enough
summer thermometer, but it isn't
Calculated" for this kind of a winter.