Cold As Ice

-Few tire nware of' ihcindefinitencss of t-hie e.xpression. Uomparalively we might say, as warm as ice. Thero may bè 72 dpgrees of the thermometer differencc in Lover Canada in the temperaiure of di ilercnt pieces of ice. Water becomes ice at 32 degrees above zero, and bis nviy fotll or increaseto ■ coldncss below zero inthat climate. If an animal were capable éfbecomingso cold, still retaining life and sensible, a louch of the ice al 32 dpgrees would feël not only warm, bul perhaps burning hot. In a commercial pointof view, i!ie cclder the ice, the more valnablc it is, bccause t reUins the cold proportionally longer, and endures the heat of summer much beuer. Tlms, long before a cubic foot of Upper Canada ca ha melted, a cubic foot oí English ice becomes warm water. The colder the winter, tbc more v,i,ni,in íh ice for exportation or