PATHOLOGICAL DREAMERS.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 446, 3 November 1904, Page 3

PATHOLOGICAL DREAMERS.

Peculiar Aberrations of Conduct and X'ODdcicoles to Fantastic * Exu^geruHons, Students of psychological medicine will be particularly interested in some recent cases of pathological dreaming which Prof. A, Dick, of Prague, has been studying. Psychologists have long recognized a similarity between dreams and the delusions of the insane or the waking delirium of the opium eater., says a New York exchange. One case occupying the attention of Prof. Dick is that of a man, aged 43, a goldsmith. During the ten years of his married life his wife has noticed that he often, during the day an 1 night, spoke to himself, sometimes softly and sometimes loudly, as though he imagined himself to be among his fellow workmen. If spoken to he ceased at once, but gave no explanation except upon one occasion, when ho said that various thoughts came to him against his will, which he had to speak out, although he knew that it was untrue. Another case deals with a clerk, aged 18, who manifested peculiar aberrations of conduct in the form of petty embezzling and theft, and a tendency to fantastic exaggerations. His waking reveries or dreams were sometimes so realistic that he could not distinguish them from actual facta. Metals 'Pint Flow. 11, U perhaps not generally known that one of the most important properties of metals employed in striking coins and metals and stamping and shaping articles of jewelry-is that of flowing under pressure, says the Youth’s Companion. - Standard silver is remarkable’’for, this property, which precisely resembles the flowing of a viscous fluid. The flow takes place when the metal is subjected to rolling, stamping or hammering, and the particles of the. metal are thus carried into the sunken parts.-of the die without fracturing, and. a ( n»rfect impression is produced, v , Nnt-Crackinjf by Ele«irlcltr. In St. Louis the nut-cracking industry gives employment-toaConsid-erable number of persons,.there being three plants-in the : citjw,,.The nutcrackers are driven .by electricity, each uut being fed individually"'into the crusher. After the shells afe cracked the nuts are-wiuhqwed by aq air blast and the meat is ' picked : v 4tiqm the crushed shells by hflnd, jyifflmiiD andgirls being part dV the- work; ■ V/ . ... • PARISIAN HAIR RESTORER. Jl An tnfalliable Preventative for baldness and Grey Hairs; Rendered abundant,’ soft, and glossy’" 2s 6d. Hairdressers,. grocers, aud . chemists. JNq