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What’s Send your riddles, jokes to: could invent a thermometer more, it reacts very quickly Riddles, Jokes, “Tell Me that told you the temperature so that changes can be noticed Why!” Today’s winner is: ..« by making noises or changing right away. And mercury can colors, that would be fine. But stand low temperature (-38 Cheryl Blythe, 11, Shelby, Ohio. ‘= so far, all thermometers used degrees Fahrenheit) without by man have to be looked at freezing and high temperatures and “read’- so we can tell (plus 675 degrees) without about the temperature. turning to vapor. So when it get’s hotter, let All that has to be done now us say, we have to be able to is to put mercury into some see something change in the kind of receptacle where these thermometer. Now heat and changes can be seen and mea-| cold cause many materials to sured—and we have a thermal change, but most of these meter! So mercury is put into! a tube with a very narrow} bore or hole. It is sealed at) the bottom, and the upper end} of the tube is either a vacuum or has some gas in it. | don’t change in the same way LITTLE PEOPLE'S PUZZLE 2 en THE BERRYS WHY_DIDN'T_ SOMEBODY WAKE ME UP SOONER 2 LOCK) Today In History OTHELLO HAS FRIGHTENED HIS WIFE. WITH =ae oe THE STORY THAT THE MISSING HAND- F HE 6 WRONG KERCHIEF HAS MAGIC IN IT---LIKE APRIL FOOL! 3 HEY, DAD! ARE YOU GOING TO SLEEP ALL_DAY..... ITS 9 OCLOCK! Now let’s say the tempera-| ‘Today is Wednesday, April 1, the 92nd day of 1964 with 274 to follow. This ‘‘April Fool’s Day.” The moon is approaching its last quarter. The evening stars are Mercury and Venus. On this day in history: In 1853, Cincinnati set a precedent by payingits fire department a regular salary—ordinary firemen $60 a year, lieutenants $100 a year, captains $150 a year and pipesmen $365 a year. In 1953, Virne “‘Jackie’”’ Mitchell, a 17-year-old pitcher, signed with Chattanooga, Tenn., to become the first woman to play for an organized baseball team. BUT, ONCE HE '5 SURE THE HANDKERCHIEF {5 GONE, POSSIBLY GIVEN TO A LOVER, HE IS READY TO THREATEN! IN SUSPECTING HER OF BEING UNFAITHFUL ture begins to get hotter. | mercury begins to expand. It! is in this narrow tube and the; eh bts ~<a y Mo only way it can expand is by| moving up the tube. It rises! And since it always expands at the same rate for the same| temperature, by putting a measuring scale against the! tube, we can tell exactly what the temperature is! When it gets colder, the mercury contracts, and drops in the tube. | All we have to do is see how| much it had dropped (by look-| ing at the scale), and we know the new temperature! FUN TIME aie = The Riddle Box ee Ore+ ByondED 1. Why didn’t the baseball LPEATURE SYNDICATE INE. 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