Show df I i R 3 i now IN OLDEST ALASKA PHENOMENA RESULTING FRO FROM j l q LOW TEMPERATURE j f 2 Vegetables Fruit Eggs Etc Eta A Al 0 l lowed i I to Freeze Hard as Bullets Bullets Bul Bul- 7 lets and Thawed When iY Used N Strange manifestations appear 1 in F R- R Alaska as a result of the 4 cold old one is the extreme I way a fire burns in th the thi 1 stove It roars and crackles like z Ii ij n great forge and wood in the stove seems to dissolve in the flames like a chunk of ice the wood is gone and w wi we i wonder where the heat went At 60 GG degrees below every stovepipe throws thrown 7 0 out a great white cloud o oi of smoke and i 4 vapor resembling a steamboat in its f r whiteness and this cloud s streams leam away for 50 to feet writes Chester W. W Tennant In Popular Mechanics S. S J. J Prospectors in attempting to boil a dish of rice or beans upon a campfire 1 unprotected from the weather fin find that the side of the dish which is In the fire will boil boll while the part of the dish exposed to the weather has frozen To remedy this the dish is k set completely the into fire i Edged tools subjected to this temperature tem tem- temperature N become as hard and brittle as glass and will break as readily una under under un- un a der strain I have seen a pop safety t valve blowing off oft steam when weather was below 60 degrees with icicles which had formed by the condensation condensa condensa- tion while it was blowing off hanging A from the outer rim of the valve I i All vegetables potatoes apples J i fruit eggs etc can be allowed to freeze until th they y become like bullets To ro make male ready for use place them in cold old water 7 half a day before using and nd the frost will slowly withdraw without injury to the article Exposed parts of the body would freeze in th thip temperature while going Mr the distance of one orie one block Mr Tennant Tennant Tennant Ten Ten- nant tells of remarkable results ob- ob ob- ob i tamed by thawing out frozen feet k hands or ears in coal oal oil The members members mem mem- bers hers are immersed In the oil some sometimes sometimes some times time f for r four or five hours a and d they tha thaw without leaving lany zany lany injurious y results The hint from the north bay may be well worth remembering tc those exposed to the severer turns ol of temperature In our own winters Of the kerosene treatment Mr Tennant says This is absolutely a safe remedy e and one thus escapes the surgeons surgeon's knife as no no bad resu results ts follow This is s i is not hearsay as a man was saved a afew afew few years ago at our mir office by the night t watchman who found him In four degrees bel below w zero and both hands frozen to the wrists He was taken Into the office and treated as ass s abo above for about five hours when all the frost was drawn out without so much as losing a finger tip The physicians were amazed as they thought amputation would have to be resorted to His hands were were as white and hard as marble and when placed In the oil they snapped and crackled as Eis the oil began to act ct upon the Ice crystals This remedy should be remembered by all residents of f cold climates as it would save many a limb The temper- temper ture of the oil should be about the same lame as that of the living room about SO 80 0 degrees above zero One has to be careful about touchIng touchIng touchIng touch- touch Ing things with unprotected hands ItIs It ItIs ItIs Is dangerous to take hold of a door doorknob knob when it is 60 degrees below zero or pr thereabouts with the uncovered hand unless you are careful l instantly to release your hold for tor if you do it will freeze your inner palm in five seconds be very painful thereafter and the result Is the same as from touching a stove Coal oil begins to thicken at 40 degrees degrees de de- de grees below and at 60 and 70 degrees below becomes as thick as lard or but buta a 8 very little darker and can be cut cutout cutout out but of the can with a knife the same name as you wo would ld cut lard or butter j J |