Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1887 — Needed for Deep Research. [ARTICLE]

Needed for Deep Research.

The literary resources piled in the State Library, which include most of the standard authors, contain also that modern literary evolution of unbridled Philistinism known as “Peck's Bad Boy.” This book is the volume most in request of all in the State Library. It should be borne in mind that the State Library by law is accessible only to the Governor, members of the Council and Legislature, Judges of the courts, State officials, counsel engaged in the argument of causes before the law courts, members of the Board of Agriculture, and the clergymen of Augusta, Hallowell, and Gardiner.— Lewiston {Me.) Journal. An ounce of discretion is better than a pound of knowledge. Why nofspend twen-ty-five cents for a bottle of Red Star Cough Cure, and save a large doctor’s bill? In order to secure more healthy and thorough ventilation, an English architect advises that rooms should be provided with many inlets for warmed fresh air at the floor-line, the effect of which would bo to drive up all the impure air toward the hotter stratum near the ceiling; an outlet at the ceiling line would then carry off the whole of the vitiated air. Again, as the warm air begins to rise as soon as it enters the room, the more it is subdivided into separate inlets the better, because it will ascend by the most direct line to the outlet; and, this being the case, a number of small streams will move the general body of air in the room more effectually than one large current, which woulcTbe likely to pass through the body of air without affecting anything that did not happen to be directly in its path. The temperature of the inflowing air, he says, should be moderate and its velocity low, but it is desirable that there should be only one outlet for foul air from an apartment, because if there were more than one the draught might be unequal, and then one would pull against another, causing a flow of air down one and up the other, instead of from the proper outlets. Of course, in carrying out this arrangement for ventilation, the one outlet need not necessarily appear as such in the apartment, as its mouth may easily be concealed by a perforated cornice or other device.