Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1915 — A Hot Story. [ARTICLE]

A Hot Story.

A contributor to the Chino Herald, telling of experiences during a summer trip into the desert, narrates that while he watched a lizard run across a sunbaked open strip of sand it disappeared in a puff of vapor. The intense heat of the sand had turned the moisture of its body into steam, the pressure of which rose so high that the little creature was blown into bits So minute that no trace of it was afterward to be found. In backing up his statement, he quotes an old prospector’s allegation that in Death Valley during the heat of the day, water poured from a canteen will not reach the ground, being turned into steam as fast as it leaves the mouth of the canteen. Can you bears it?—Engineer and Mining Journal.