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��A Sleeping Nest With an Electric Elevator

A CALIFORNIA electrical engi- neer has constructed a sleeping porch thirty-eight feet above the ground. He thinks that the night air close to the ground interferes with his repose, and that the temperature forty feet from the ground is at least ten degrees cooler. His sleeping porch is a veritable nest in a steel tree.

He took pains to build his cage to withstand the high winds that occasionally prevail in that section of California. The steel poles which sup- port the elevated bedroom are stoutly braced, and he has estimated it will be comfortably safe in winds blowing as briskly as two hundred miles an hour, thus allowing him an ample margin of protection.

A miniature elevator lifted by a di- minutive electric motor of one-sixth horsepower is employed in making the flight between the ground and the lofty bed chamber.

Publishing a Paper Aboard a Train

PERHAPS one of the oddest publica- tions of recent years was that issued aboard a special train traveling

����While the editors wrote copy in the parlcr

cars, the newspaper was printed every day in

the baggage coach

��The owner of this sleeping nest cannot fly

to his bed, like a bird, and so he installed an

electric elevator

between St. Paul, Minn., and Spokane. Wash. An entire printing ecjuipment, including a linotype machine, a large cabinet of hand type and a printing ])ress, was installed in the baggage car. The editors were selected from managers of the touring party and did their work in the parlor cars, and the paper was printed every day in the baggage coacli. The press used was the first working model of a new type of machine.

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