The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1906-06-16
SCIENCE AND
INVENTION
Some Aspects OF Life AT 90 Degrees
Below Zero

Look out, or you will drop that
chisel!"
before the sentence was finished,
the tool had slipped from the hand OF
my assistant, and striking upon some
bar iron flew into pieces as il it had
been glass instead OF steel" This
reads like bit out OF Alice in Won
derland,' but it is sober fact, we are
told by Chester W. Tenant, OF Daw-
son, ukon Territory, who writes in
Popular Mechanics Chicago, ApriD
on What Happens at 90 degrees Be
low Zero This temperature is not
uncommon i'll the Yukon. Says Mr..
| Tenant:
Il am writing this on January IS;
ior two weeks we have had a cold
spell. Temperature has ranged from
II degrees below zero (the warmcst)
down to OS degrees below. Some OF
the outlying ukon police stations re
port so degrees below. These cold
waves alternate with warmer periods
OF 10 degrees below.
Strange manifestations appear as
result ui the extreme cOid; one is the
way ire burns in the stove. 1t roarS
and crackIeS like a great Jorge. and
wood i'll the stove seems to dissolve i'll
the flames like a chunk OF ice; the wood
is gone and we wonder where tlc heat
went
AT 90 degrees below. every stove
pipe throws out a great white cloud Ui
smoke and vapOr, resembling a steam
boat i'll its Wilderness, and this cloud
streams away Tor so to 100 feet. mingl-
ing with the other whitcgray mist or
haze that remains permanent in the
atmosphere OF the town like a great
log, when it is 10 degrees or more be
low zero. This white gray log is not
log, as YOU know it, but is frozen log.
land every man, woman. child, animal,
and even the fire that burns is throw
ing out moisture into the air which is
immediately turned into a cloud OF
frozen vapor which floats away and
remains visbly suspended in the air
Very slowly this settles to earth; and
III the morning. about the steps and
any protected place, one can see a
very line film Oi tlour-lkc dust deposit
ed, wlch Is composed OF frozen vapOr.
| Exposed, ears, hands and nose, Mr.
cnnant tells us, freeze at this temper.
allure i'll gong the distance OF about
one block, unless well protected. The
breath roars like a mild jet OF steam,
while Il Upper ol boiling water thrown
out INTO the ar Cmlls a peculiar WhlstI-
my hiss as its drops circle through the
frosty atmosphere. 10 quote again:
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a dish OF rice or beans upon comp
fire, unprotected from the weather, find
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