THE HEAT A MAN CAN ENDURE.

Evening Star, Issue 3451, 14 March 1874, Page 3

THE HEAT A MAN CAN ENDURE.

4 ln relation to the subject of how high a temperature men can endure and work in, a writer in the ‘British tjournal of §cienoe ! potes the following interesting cases :—During the' reheating of furnaces in an iron works in England, the men worked when the thermometer, placed so as not to be influenced by the radiation of heat from the open dop.rs, marked IgQdeg. In the Bessemer pits, 140deg was reached, and yet the men continued in kind of labor requiring greater muscular effort. In some of the operations of glass-making, the ordinary summer working tempei’ature is considerably over lOOdeg ; and the radiant heat to which the workmen are subjected far exceeds 212deg. In a Turkish bath, the shampooers continue four or five hours at a time in a moist atmosphere at temperatures ranging from 105deg to llOdeg. A ca§e is mentioned of a person in the same establishment working half an hour in a heat of 185deg. In enamel factories, men work daily in a heat of over 180deg. On the Red Sea steamers, the temperature of the stoke-hole is 145 deg, and some men will labor there for half an hour without a drop of perspiration, while others are carried out fainting. These examples of continuous work at 110, 120, 140, and 145 degrees, correspond to depths in mines of 3,050, 4,250, 5,450 and 5,750 feet. The author thinks, therefore, that the limit of 4,000' feet, fixed by the English Commissioners as the extreme workable depth of mines, is too small, and he considers 8,000 feet a safe boundary. An Irishman, just landed, was asked what party he belonged to. “ Party is it ?” said he ; I suppose you’ve got a Government? Thin Ira agm it.” “In Cork,” said O’Connell, “ I remember the crier trying to disperse the crowd by exclaiming All ye blackguards that isn’t lawyers quit the court.” Professor Max-MiUler has announced a loctiiM pn Darwin’s View qf Language. •+>lWPh W condense it for him “A mere monkey trick.”