Show FRIGHTFUL DEGREE OF COLD frosts intensity hard for dwellers hi temperate climes to realize it is difficult for us to form any conception of the degree of cold depre dented by the 80 degrees of frost recorded from certain parts of russia sir leopold mcclintock tells how la in one of his arctic expeditions a sailor was foolish enough to do some outdoor work at precisely this temperature ills his hands bands froze and when he gushed into the cabin and plunged one of them into a basin of water so cold was the hand band that the water was instantly converted into a block of ice ica at 26 25 degrees dr kane says tho the mustache be and under lip form pendulous heeds beads of dangling ice put out your tongue and it instantly freezes to this icy crusting your chin lias a trick of freezing to your upper jaw by br the aid of your beard my eyes have often been so glued as to show that even a wink was unsafe |