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Show Highest anil l.nweit Temperature, Tho statistics below, showing tho highest and tho lowest temperature which man can endure may prove Interesting. In-teresting. To begin with, the difference differ-ence between tho highest and tho lowest low-est limits Is estimated at 250 degrees Fahrenheit. French troops In Algiers must froqucnUy mnrch and maneuver nt n heat of 122 degrees above zero, A French professor has, during a stay In tho Sahara with a tribe of Tuaregs, observed a heat of 153 degrees. Attendants At-tendants ln Turkish bath establishments establish-ments work ten hours a dny ln rooms where the air Is artificially heated at 155, 175 and oven to 195 degrees Fah-tcnhelt. Fah-tcnhelt. A scientific gentleman ln ParlB not long ago spent fifteen minutes min-utes ln a hot air room ot tho Paris Hamman, ln which tho dry nlr had been heated by his order until the thcrmomoler registered 250 degrees Fahrenheit. Issuing from this room ho plunged Immediately Into a baih filled with water of about 53 degrees, a difference differ-ence of almost 230 degrees Fahrenheit, Fahren-heit, which h.s body p'a:ed through In less than a mlnuto. On tho other hand, man will stand grca or cold than any of tho other mammals. For lnuanco, the temperaturo during tho Journoy ot Prlnco Henry of Orlcnns through tho Central Asiatic highlands, whero tho party had frequently to withstand a tompcraturo of 40 degrees below zero. Tho quicksilver In tho thcrmomotcra had frozen solidly at this tomperature, nnd even tho alcohol In the alcohol thormomet rs became thick. 1 Horses and camels died from exposure, I whllo nono of the men In tho party suf-! suf-! fered In tho least. Turning to America, Ameri-ca, Captain Hum once measured at 1 Fort Reliance n temperaturo of 70 do-grecs do-grecs bolow zero, whllo Captain Dow-ron, Dow-ron, at Fort Ran, snw tho thormome'.nr down to 88 below zero In tho month ot April. Tho lowest temperatures known, I however, havo occurred In Slbcr a, where a temperaturo of 50 below zero Is not uncommon, whllo at Worcho Jansk n temperaturo of 93 degrees bs-low bs-low zero has been observed. It appears, ap-pears, thcreforo, that men can stand a cold of 90 degrees bolow zero, while a heat of ICO and oven ISO degrees Fahrenheit Fah-renheit appears to bo tho extreme limit lim-it In tho opposlto direction. No animal ani-mal Is known which Is ab'.o to resist such changes ot temperaturo. |