Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-10-31
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

A we'll known doctor advises the
adoption of hard bed and that chill
aren should be trained from the begin
ming to sleep upon no other kind. 1t
Is certainly true that as rule hard
bed conduces to the most refreshing
kind of sleep, the feather bed, so dear
ly loved by our grandmothers, being
enervating in the extreme.
In dredging to deepen the channels
of the Shoalhaven and Moruya rivers.
in New South Wales gold dust was
accidentally discovered in the mud. An
automatic gold saver was at once at
tached to the dredging machine and
now 1t is estimated that enough gold
Will thus be obtained to pay the ex-
penses of keeping the channels open.
Father Karner, who is assisted finan-
cially in his underground researches
by the Austrian imperial academy OF
science, reports that he has discov-
cred in Eseite, in Hungary, an arti-
| fetal cavern Of large size, with rooms,
poSSoSCo duu SlSpo. t ioLl WAieiit5o
and cuttings on the walls it appears
that in 1886 many Hungarian mobiles
| took refuge here. A woman's name,
with the date 1888, is also visible On
| the ground in the lowest vault pre-
historic urn with fragments of other
ancient vessels, was found, showing
that the cavern had been occupied in
ancient times.
| Professor Woodwork describes in a
scientific paper a new movement for
writer's with the pen, for which he
claims decided advantages over the
older methods. He suggests that the
i paper be placed so as to slant to the
right instead of to the left, when the
horizontal lines may be followed by
the whole arm, in the direction of the
forearm, back toward the flank. Mean
while impart to the wrist and fore
arm a back and forth motion, which
shall produce the vertical strokes OF
the letters. This method, he says, will
make rapid writing freer and more
legible, with no tendency to degen-
| L
ment has another advantage in that
it may be taught with comparative
ease to the left hand.
1t is interesting to learn some of the
results already achieved at the Dur
ham county consumption sanatorium,
recently opened in Weardale, Eng. In
an interim report of 15 cases treated
during the 10 weeks of the establish
ment of the institution at the end of
1900, the medical superintendent said:
These Is patients gained on an aver
age one and half pounds in weight
per capita each week, and at the same
time their walking powers very great
ly increased The walks are extern
sive and varied and are along shell
tered roads, by running streams,
through woods, up hills, rising zoo
feet, and across heather-clad moors
1400 feet above sea level. Almost all
the patients remained out of doors the
maximum amount of II 1-2 hours each
day and slept with their French win
dows wide open all night"
A caster intended particularly for
use in metal bedsteads has been re-
Gently brought out. The caster is made
with the usual wooden wheel and
metal stem, but differs from other cas-
ters in the construction of the sock
ct, which is made of cork. The cork
is inclosed in a strong metal frame
stamped from one piece of sheet stee
and so shaped as to form both tor
and bottom plates connected by side
piece. The cork Is so tapered as tc
allow the top end to go into the tube
of the bed post easily, and when forced
In until it is in as far as the lower
plate, it is held rigidly in the tube
After many experiments 1t was fount
that cork would be especially suitabl:
for the socket, as the cork adheres
tlrmly to the tubing and also holds
the stem in its place, a projection be-
ing formed on the end Of the stem fol