KEEPING THE TEMPERATURE DOWN.
Major McLaughlin put a new man at work at his mine the other day drying out dynamite. ‘Now,’ said he, by way of explanation, ‘you have to keep your eye on that thermometer in the heater. If it gets above 85 you’re liable to hear a noise around here. When it reaches 82 degrees you have just three minutes in which to work, for it takes three minutes in which to rise to 85. ’ ‘ A hour later the major returned to see how the man at the heater was doing. * Well, how is it getting along ?’ he inquired. * Oh, first rate.’ 1 Do you watch that thermometer ?’ * You bet your life, I do, and I’m keeping her down.’ He reached into the heater and pulled out the thermometer. ‘Whew! She’s up to 84,' he remarked. ‘There, that’ll fix it.’ He jammed the thermometer into a bucket of cold water and hung it back in the heater. Then he wondered what McLaughlin was running for.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XV, Issue XXIV, 14 December 1895, Page 760
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168KEEPING THE TEMPERATURE DOWN. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XV, Issue XXIV, 14 December 1895, Page 760
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