Twas a Cold Day in Texas.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2279, 22 September 1899, Page 6

Twas a Cold Day in Texas.

" I see," said the grocer Ihoiightlessj ly, for In- had forgotten thai the man I with the Kinder l» ai 1 sitting !»■- ! hind 111" St.IV. •• I See that the 1.1)1- | peratuiv ilrnjipe I L'Hil -. in fifteen I ininu'tes .1 own in Texas the other .lay." " I il.in't rail that nothing," said the I man with the Kinder I>■ -Ir. 1. " i reme-m- ---| her when there was a parly (if ns | eampin' up in the Klaek Hills Lhat the 11 'in pe rat lire drapped s . sudden that ■ ine !>f the mules in the outfit, which was in the aet of kirkin'. was caught and froze that way. and si I with its lie.ls up in the air two clays. We had ] a thermometer along. Put the cussed i thing went back on us, so I can't I ozzactly say jlst how much of a drap it ; WUZ." "Oh. yes." said the school teacher. 1 " if Is a well-known fact thai at a temj perature of aboul 4<Mcg. he-low zero the mercury freezes and cannot register." "Thai wasn't ii at all. young man," said the man with the ginger 1.-ard with fine scorn. "The durn mercury drapped so quick that the friction made i it red hoi and busted the glass." The man Prom Potato Creek began to 1 snicker, hut the (linger Reard stopper] his mirth with a stony stare. -" Tndianapolis Journal,"