STRANGE EFFECT OF INTENSE COLD.
One cf the scientists attached to the Peary expuuiiion tells us (if the effect of intense rohl <m a wax candle that he trieci to burn. The temperature was thirty-five degrees below zs:o, and t ('effects were let not only by the members of the expedition, but even by the candle in questi.m. It g;,ve forth no cbetry light such as might have been expet ed from it in other circumstances, and whin it came ;o be examined it was found that the flame had all it could do to keep itself warm. The air was so o'd ihat the flame was not powerful enough to melt all the wax of the candle, but was compelled to eat its way down, leaving a skeleton structure of wrx in the form of a hollow cylinder. Inside this cylinder the wick burr.ed with a tongue cf yellotv flame, and hero and there the heat way suiticient to penetrate the ouier covering and leave holes ut odd shapes which turned the cylinder into a tube of lacelike wax, through the hole's in which iho light shone wiih a sliasm'e, weird beauty.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10062, 7 June 1910, Page 7
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193STRANGE EFFECT OF INTENSE COLD. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10062, 7 June 1910, Page 7
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