Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1883 — Hot Ice. [ARTICLE]

Hot Ice.

“Marvelous hot ice!” Did Shakspeare, in these words, anticipate the earth-; quake of Java? In the midst of the' molten lava and carried along by the currentwas a solid and enormous bed of ice emitted from one of the craters, : This bed of ice was Surrounded by a thick envelope of sand and scoriae,; which are such non-conductors of heat j that a red-hot stream of lava running ' over ?it will not melt snow? It is sup-1 posed that this ice had formed the crust of some vast subterranean lake. — Detroit Free Press. '