Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1896 — Boston’s “Uncle Noah.” [ARTICLE]

Boston’s “Uncle Noah.”

There Is a well-meaning old gentleman in Boston who goes about in fair weather or foul with au open umbrella over his head. lie Is one of the nbtable. characters of theftown, highly respect-ed-ns far as that gooA, but pitied as the victim of the delusion that a downpour Is always impending. The storjis abroad In Boston that lie once got a terribly drenching and Dontracted tlicrafrom that threw him Into a fever, out of -which lie Issued with Ids life, but an unbalanced mind. All he could remember of his exfierionco was -that he was caught out w 1 thout an umbrelliv, arid, though capable of doing business and eomprelieudiivg every other subject, he stlll_ lives ill dread oif a Necotib deluge. He Is Jfhowu as “Uucle Nbah.”—Boston Herald. . ■ The greatest depth, writes Prof. Seeley In his "Stbry ot the Earth,” at which earthquakes ye known to originate is about thirty miles. It has also been calculated that a heat sufficient to melt granite might occur at abhut the same depth-