Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1882 — Heat in a Snowbank. [ARTICLE]

Heat in a Snowbank.

Frank White, of Leadviile, return* ing from a trip in the Indian country, * ound himself freezing to death in a Minding snow storm on the Grand ,• Riqer. Remembering that he had heard old travelers on the plains talk about the latent heat in a snow-bank, be dug a deep hole in a drift with his hands and crawled in. Presently he negan to feel more comfortable, and the delightful but ominous drowsiness which precedes death by freezing stole over him. He fought against it in vain, and at last became unconscious The next morning he awoke, not in eternity, as he had confidently expected to do, but in the snow drift,as warm and sjnug as the traditional hug. «*■ • » ■■■ Captain Bam Shoemaker, of Terre Haute, has produced a quantity of wild rice seed, wnlch grows in the water, and intends to sow in the Wabash river to furnish food for wild ducks.