Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1904 — Nature’s Extremes. [ARTICLE]

Nature’s Extremes.

The 'Coldest place on earth inhabited by man is Verkhoyansk, above the arctic circle, in northeastern Siberia. The thermometer there drops to 90 degrees below zero in January, but sometimes rises to 86 degrees above zero in the shade in July, dropping, however, to the freezing point on the warmest summer nights. Thar hottest place in the world is the Interior of the great Sahara Desert, in Africa, where the thermometer rises to 122 degrees. The wettest place is Greytown, Nicaragua, where the mean annual rainfall is 260 inches. The place of least rain Is Fort Nolloth, In South Africa, where less than an inch sometimes falls In a year. , , pastor of St. Patrick’s Bftch, Gainesville, Fla., is endeavoring to divert Irish immigration to .the South. He has about 1,000 acre** ms fine fanning land in 4 Florida and grants to settle it with a colony of Immigrant* from the Green Isle. The Rev. S. W. Howland, who has been connected with the Ceylon mission of the American board since 1873, has been elected professor of theology la Atlanta Theological Seminary. He is a native of Ceylon and a graduate of Amherst,