Frostburg mining journal., 1883-09-15
Mining i,t Hot Places.

ders, We may claim the credit of
having them here on the Comstock.
What would scorch man who lives
wholly on the surface chills a miner
Injured to the heat of the lower levels.
A miner who has been for some
months past working in one of the
hottest sections of the Comstock, a
day or two since gave reporter his
experience of the heat which miners
are often called upon to encounter.
He says that in working at points
where the thermometer marks a tenn.
pcrsture Of lis to 100 degrees great
thirst is experienced. No ice water
is too cold to swallow with relish.
Men go TO the water barrel in which
huge chubks of ice are floating about,
and with their picks chop up the ice
IN order that the water may be rem
dered colder by being filled with fine
fragments. Often this does not sat-
isfy them, and they chew and swallow
Jumps Of ice.
The natural temperature of the
human body-of the blood-is about
nipety-eight degrees, FahI enhsit,
therefore when man remains in a
hot place for an hour. or even half an
hour, his blood, and his whole body,
becomes heated to the temperature of
lis, l20 degrees, or whatever may
ba the temperature OF tho place in
W. iCh hv is at work, IL is then that
tie minei begins to pour down ice
water ard eat ice. The strapgest
thing bout the business is that it
does not hurt any OF the men. Often
they swallow such quantities of ice
water that their stomachs will not
retain it. All they do on such &C.
casions is to swallow more of the
same water, but more cautiously.
When the men are working in ex-
tremely hot places the temperature
Of the place to which they come to
cool of-the cooling off statiou--is
probably 100 degrees. This temper
ure-which would almost roast a
surface man-appears cool to man
who has come from a place where the
thermometer marks ITO to lis de-
9rees. In a place here the tempera-
ture is ninety the man will feel SO cold
as to shiver. Often at the COO ing off
station, where the temperature is 100
degrees, the perspiration will cease
and the man will begin to feel very
uncomfortable. On leaving and 60
ing back to where the temperature is
from lis to l20 as the perspiration
begins to start, there is for minute or
two an intolerable itching over the
whole body. AS each closed pore
re- pens it produces tingling seusa-
ZION. However, as coon as there is
a free flow OF perspiration all this
trouble ceases, and the man feels
quite comfortable and 30 remains un-
til his whole body blood, fash, and
bonss-again reaches temperature
cf from ITO to l20, when he becomes
wild Tor ice water and Ice. 1t is not
a little strar ge-when we consider
that ninety eight degrees is the natu-
raj temperature of the blood-that
serious rtsults do not follow exposure
to a degree OF heat almost sufficient
O cook the blood in the veins.-Vlr-
gaia City (Nsv.) Enterprise.
NERvoUsNEss.-The moment there
is danger OF impairment OF the mind
from excessive nervous exhaustion, or
wuere there exists forebodings of evil
desile for solitude shunning and
avoiding company, vertigo, and ner-
vous debility, or when insanity has
alre dy taken lace, Ptruaa and Man-
ohn should be implicitly relied on
But it la never we'll to wait 80 long
b fo.e treatment is commenced. The
early symptoms are loss of strength,
softnsss of the muscles, dim or weak
sight, peculiar expression Of the face
or eyes, coated tongue and impaired
digestion or in others, certain pewers
only are lost, while they are other
wise enjoying comparatively good
health. In all these Peruna and Ma
aalin should at once be taken.
NOTHING can surpasa in desolation
a Nevada town where a mine has
"petered out" unless it is deserted
city 10 the Pennsylvania oil regions.
At Lewis, New, nine out Of ten houses
are simply deserted. One store,
where not cents worth of goods has