The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-03-26
4 FROZEN THERMoMETER.
| experiments with Mercury I'm Montana
Diegsss&ed Professor.

Disguised Professor.
According to the NeaD N0rt15aOes
| there has been some remarkably cold
weather In Silver Bow, Montana. A cor
respondent 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 Sth, several persona
being In my store, and the spirit ther-
mometer registering $ IS deg. below. =
the remark was made that quicksilver
would CONCEAL at three degrees lower. i
requested my clerk, Mr. Stolte, to thor
oughly cleanse bar tumbler and partially
fill it with quicksilver. We then exposed
the glass of mercury and the spirit ther-
mometer 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 SO
deg. below, but the quicksilver still re-
manned unchanged At 9:20 %. m. the
thermometer stood 40 deg. below still
the quicksilver was lire, but terribly
cold. At $40 p. m. the spirit indicated
Al deg. below the quicksilver was hard
ening on the outside. A few minutes
later the thermometer stood AZ deg. be-
low. / picked up the tumbler of quick
silver, and to my astonishment found it
completely sOlidified-as hard as a rock.
] carried it into the store, and several
persons examined it, it remaining in that
condition some time before it showed
life.
On January 10, at IL p M, the ther-
mometer stood 35 deg. below January
IL, at a. M, A. deg. below january
II, 9 p. M, SO deg. below. On the
evening of January 8, the evening above
mentioned, at 1890 p. M, the register
was 46 deg. below. This is the coolest
weather we have had,
Under date of January Il, the corre-
spondent adds the following news, ex-
pressed In the peculiar style of the Wests
Jack Frost held the best hand last
night, and played it as follows: At 9:45
p. m. the thermometer stood so deg. be-
low at 1890 p. m, 81 deg. below at
IL 30 p. m. 56 deg. 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, go~
ing down the gulch below town. A
couple of gentlemen of this burg intend
to procure and place on the summit of
Mount Powell, next fall, to remain
through the winter, registered spirit
thermometer, graduated down about two
feet below zero. The interest of the
record would be increased If they could
attach to it seH-registering almanac.
/ The most diagusted man in Deer
Lodge this winter is Granville Stuart,
ESQ.,, the most careful thermometricaE
| observer in Montana. Anticipating a.
possible spell of weather that the mercuriaI
| thermometers would be inadequate to-
1 record, he sent TO New York for tines
spirit thermometer, for which he was
| charged q spirited price. It arrived In
| good season, but ON examining It it was
found to be only graduated to thirty de-
grees below zero. He says it is good
enough summer thermometer, but it ism t.
g calculated - for this kind of winter.