Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 188, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1912 — The Thermometer. [ARTICLE]

The Thermometer.

The thermometer is a clever little Instrument composed of a scale on which numbers are printed at various intervals, and to which is attached A long piece of glass which has a bulb at Jhe bottom. Like other bulbou* plants, the thermometer attains Its greatest height in the summertime. Inside the bulb is some mercury. When mercury i» warmed It expands. When a man gets warm he begins expanding, also. If you sit next a fat man in the street car you will notice this. He will spread out until he crushes you against the side of the car. The Fahrenheit thermometer was invented by the late Mr. Fahrenheit, who went upon the theory that zero was not as cold as it seemed, so he left space below it for the mercury to sit down. The cetigrade theft momenter begins counting at zero. Consequently it is a much warmer thermometer than the Fahrenheit variety. The thermometer tells you how hot it is. In this it has nothing on every one of your friends. Your own thermometer Is a source of pride to yon if It registers higher than the one next door.