Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1893 — Arctic Cold. [ARTICLE]

Arctic Cold.

, Oar physical sensations are relative, •ays a traveler in Arctic ref ions, and the mere enumeration of so many decrees of heat or oold fives no idea of their effect upon the system. . I should have frozen at home in a (temperature which I found very comfortable in Lapland, with my solid diet (of meat and butter and my garments of reindeer. The following is a correct scale of the physical effects of cold, calculated for the latitude of 65 to 70 degrees north: Fifteen degrees above zero—Unpleasantly warm. Zero —Mild and agreeable. Ten degrees below zero—Pleasantly fre3h and bracing. Twenty degrees below zero*—Sharp, but not severely cold. Keep your fingers and toes in motion and rub your nose occasionally. Thirty degrees below zero—Very cold. Take particular care of your no?e and extremities; eat the fattest food and plenty of it. Forty degrees below zero—lntensely cold. Keep awake at all hazards, muffle up to the eyes, and test your circulation frequently, that it may not stop somewhere before you know it. Fifty degrees below zera—A struggle for life.