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Show I old Ihx-a Hot Kill llarlrrla. It Is a common fallacy that Impure water becomes stcrltltod at a tempera- ture of 32 degrees Uns ot the most curious facts about bacteria Is that ' while a single ray of sunlight will ex tlngulsh the life of tho Innumerable ( hordes, snd while a very moderate In-1 create In the temperaturo around them will have the same effect, they are absolutely ab-solutely uninjured by any degree of cold Hall a liquid routaliiliig bacteria bac-teria or batterla germs and all are destroyed, though there may havo been millions to every cubic centimeter centimet-er of the liquid Hut frecte tho liquid and not ono ot them Is harmed To follow out this question to tho furthest limits, experiments havo lately been conducted with liquid air as the refrigerating refrig-erating agent lubes containing buo- I terla have been left for hours In con- I tact with liquid air. and even Immersed Immers-ed In liquid hydrogen, and at tho end I of tho ordeal they ha.ve been restored to tha temperature at which their growth Is favored, with the result that I In all rose they have prospered as merrily as If nothing had happened, |