Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1885-02-26
Communicated

Death has taken fro n our vicinity very
recently, two of our wel-known and re-
spectacle c,tizcns Tner calling off has been
sudden and most unexpected; scarcely a
week elapsed after the death Of the good Dr.
White. SO well AMI appropriately referred to
by your paper, when it was followed w that
of an older man and worthy citizen, Henry
Eaton of I,ewistown. The funeral SERVERS
to both were imposing and largely attended
The last named was an alien who has lived
with us half a century, he served un l,r Mr..
Brien, his cousin, as manager of Catoctin
Furnace. and afterwards led a quiet mercan
tile and agricultural life.
1t is tn duty Of friendship, to write that
Henry Eaton, justice of peace, WAS bap,
tisel and confirmed member of the protest
ant episcopal church, was member OF the
Vestry of Catoctn Parish church for many
wears back, off and on, and was one of the
body corporate NJ the time of his death,
which ensued VIII n there was no Episcopal
clergy near to ofh late at his funersl 1t was
friendly in the ministers of other henomina-
tions to pay their last tribute to his memory,
yet it WAS a matter of regret to his own as
sociate companions, that he could not have
been inferred with his own preferred servi-
ces.
He was faithful 10 every public and pri-
vate trust committed to him, and died, as
evinced by the large attendance at his funer-
al, universally regretted and respected
WEATHERiWIspoM.-Evcry extreme de.
velopment of climate change. brings the
weather forward as the live topic for dis
cussion, both by such as are qualified for
such discussion such as are partially quail
fed and such as are totally qualified.
We read some remarkable theses on the
subject in our various exchanges, some re-
markable for the correct information con-
vryed bnt many more are striking only he
cause of the glariny inaccuracies or positive
nonsense thus embodied in LANGUAGE
For instance writer in the Frederick
Daily Neaos of Thursday last, in letter from
Dickinson, Dakota Ter. referring to Il letter
published in Tho Ne,os on prior date says
it lis calculated to give very incorrect
knowledge" and then proceeds to inform
the readers o. The Ne,os tn As degrees is
degrees lower than the mercury will fall in
a standard instrument" as though because
the mercury marks accurately only above 40
(which should have been written 38) degrees,
that it could get no colder or if it did, it
could not be registered. He has probably
never heard of other than mercury thermom-
eters.
Again we read in Tho Chronicle that II
properly constructed thermometer plunged
in mixture of ice and snow will mark zero
and if plunged in boiling water it will mark
2l2 degrers
This statement is made without qualifica
ton and as being test universally applica-
BILE and correct Now the fact is that the
above test as to 2l2 degrees of heat is appli-
cable OILY at tide level with the barometer
standing at 80 inches and a thermometer,
which when plunged in boiling water at sea
level marked 212 degrees, could not be raised
to that point when plunged in boiling water
in Emmitsburg, when taken to Sabillasville
the mercury would remain at still lower
point, at Blue Ridge Summit at point yet
lower still. In word the boiling point of
water is not constant degree of heat as be-
tween different attitudes, nor for all atmos-
pheric conditions at one point, whereas the
212 degree mark of the thermometer is con-
slant and definite and unchanging measure
Of one certain, increment of heat