A Frozen Thermometer

According to tli; JW.it' orfurral, , ere as been some reinarkftbly cofd . ,vc:itl)cr in ttilver Ilow, Montana. A ' espondent of that paper furnishes the . 'ollowing intcrestinf item ef-newa : Tour i'avor of the lOtb íh at liaml, and nquii'ios itiiHweredi .iierewith. Ou the ■eiiinp; of Jauuary 8tli, seveml _ porsons aeing in mv store, uul the spirit thTnoincter rétiisten'ng "35 flé Ix'low," the rt-miu-k v.A miuie tJiat (jincksilver WOIlld cmeal it ileffn-es lower. I i-euefitl m.y elcrk, Mr. Stolle,, to thorouhly cleaiiseabartuuibler md partially ñll it -n-itli qnickBilvcr. We ffieh exposcd Lile glHJSo J1 mrrnwirty auu uw oiw "" mometer on Ulo rooi ttf tho fire-jjroof on the north fiide of the store, givüig thcm as nearly equaloxposuiv uk posstble, Au h(mr after the thef momrter marked 88 dg. below, but the quicksüver still remained unehanged. At 9:20 p. m. the thermometer ptoocl iü leg. below ; still the (luickKÜvor was lire, but trrribly cold. At 9:4() p. m. the spirit indiosited' 41 dog. below ; the qtüoksilver wjus hardeniug ou the outside. A few minutes later the thermometer stood 42 dog. below. I picked np the tmnbler of quicksilver, and to my astonishment fouud it oompletely. solid'iüed - as hard as a rock. I carried it into tlie store, and sev(-ral persons examined it, it remaining in tliat condition somo time beforo it Bhowed life. On Jtotiary 10, at 11 p. m., the thermometer stood 35 deg. below ; January 11, at 7 a. m., 4-1 dog. below; January 11, 9 p. m., 36 deg. below. On the evening of January 8, the cvening above montioned, at 10:30 p. m., the register was 46 deg. below. ïhis is the coldest weather we have had. Under date of January 14, the correspondent adds the following news, expressed in the peculiar atyle of tho West: ! " Jack Frost held the best hand last lüght, and played ït as loliows: ai y.o p. m. the thermometer stood 50 cleg. below ; at 10:30 p. m., 54 deg. below ; at 11:30 p. m. 56 dag. below." The weather locáis of the Northwest make up an interesting colleetion. The ; following are a few specimen brieks : As the stage carne througk Blackfoot on Tuesday evening, nobody coiüd teil how cold it was ; all the thermometers were frozen. The Intlrpendmt, of Thursday, eontains an account of the freezing to death of f Chiuamn, going down tle giilch below town. A cumple of gentlemen of this burg intend to procure and pïaee on the bummit of Movuit PoweU, next fall, to remain through the wiuter, a registered spint thermometer, gradnated down about two feet below zero. The interest of the record would be increased if they eould attach to it a self-registering aJmaaac. The most disgusted man in ( Deer Lodge this winter is Granville Stuart, Esq., the most careful thermometrical oliserver in Montana. Antioipatiug a possible spcU ot weatner tüat uie. mercuruu thermometers would be inadequate to record, lie sent to New York for a line ,.,,;,.;- fnr vliioli lie was charged a spirited price. lt arnved m good season, but ou exaniiuing ït ït was found to be ouly graduated to thirty degrees below zerb. He says it is a good euougli sumrner thermometer, but it ïsu t " calclüated" fcr thin kind of a winter.