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NATURE'S SWEET RESTORER.
Tlie Best Way ot Gettlag Asleep and
Keeping so.
' frank Buckland’i Essay in Zend and Water,
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comae at last, but day finds him weary
and unfit for work, yet with mountains
Oi work to get through.” Having paid
considerable attention to this important
f nestion of being able to procure sleep,
venture to reoord what I know about
ft.
I have no hesitation in saying that the'
proper thing to do is to goto sleep im
mediately, (or at least very soon) after
the meal of the day. All animals al
ways go to sleep, if they are not dis
turbed, after eating. This is especially
~ noticeable in dogs; and the great John
Hunter showed by an experiment that
digestion went on during sleep more
than when the animal was awake and
f oing about. This is his experiment:
[6 took two dogs and gave thorn the
same quantity of food. One of them
was then allowed to go to sleep; the
J other was taken out hunting. At the
end of three or four hours he killed
both these dogs. The food in the
stomaoh of the dog which had been
asleep was quite digested; in that of
the one which had been hunting was
not digested at all.
The human frame cannot do without
Bleep. I believe the reason is that the
mysterious property—for want of a bet
ter name we call it “ vital energy”—
gradually leaks out during the day.
faring sleep the machinery of the
body, especially the brain, becomes re
charged with it. The cause of not be
ing able to sleep—I write now of people
in good health and hard workers with
then brains—is that the brain cannot, so
to speak, "go down,” but it continues to
act, more or less,-. My father, when
writing the " Bridgeport Treatise,” had
his own way of working. He was an
excessively busy man during the day,
and. had only the night hours in which
he could wnte. He generally dined at
7 o’clock, and immediately after dinner
went to sleep for t-oor three hours.
He then got up and worked on until 2
or 3 o’dock in the morning. Just be-
- fore retiring he took some light pud
ding or sandwieh, with cocoa or milk.
Thus he always slept well, as the blood
was diverted from the brain to the
stomach.
This fact, I think, shows the advisa
bility of goibff to sleep immediately
after eating. This ignored fact always
occurs to my memory when I see old
gentlemen nodding over their wine.
Nature says to them, "Go to bed.”
They will not go to bed, but still nature
will not allow her law to be broken, so
she sends them to sleep sitting in the
chairs. People, therefore, who feel
sleepy after dinner ought to dine late,
and go straight to bed when a sleepy
feeling comes over them.
Most good folks, however, do the
worst possible thing imaginable ; they
retire altogether into the drawing room,
and then, to make matters worse, they
drinktsaandeoffee. Now I regard tea
and coffee, when taken at night, to be
poison io certain constitutions. It is
very well in the morning, bnt it is very
baa at night The reason why tea and
coffee should not be taken at night is
that the one contains an alkaloid called
theine, and the other contains an al
kaloid called caffein. These two alka
loids taken into the system stimulate
the brain, and do not allow it to go to
rest. I speak of this matter from ex
perience. If I take thoughtlessly a
cup of tea or coffee after 5 o'clock in
the evening, going to bed about 11,1
cannot go to sleep; and if the brain
does fall asleep, the alkaloid will wake
it up in about an hour or two. Sleep
lessness, therefore, is usually caused
by tea or coffee, though, strange to
say, tea and coffer actually send some
people into aonnd slumber.
* I well recollect the late Dr. Wiiber-
forqe, then Bishop of Oxford, telling
myluher, then most actively engaged
as Dean of Westminster, of his patient
w«y of going to sleep. It is better than
the old fashioned prescription of watch
ing sheep jumping through a hedge
otfrfftar another, .ships sailing out to
•M, etc. The bishop’s prescription
was to repeat very slowly the vowels A
El O. In doing this, they were to be
eaintly pronounced with each inspira
tion and'expiration. It will be found,
tasy to do this without moving .the
lips, but the vowel U must not be pro
nounced, for to do this the muscular
notion of the lips necessarily takes
place, and sleep oomee not. I advise
my readers to try this plan.
I once heard a midshipman who oom-
lained that he could nC| Sleep at night
lose there ware-no wafCs dashing
the sides of the ship. To this
he had so many month# been ac*
mod that he could not sleep with
out the familiar sound. He asked his
mother to dash pails of water against
jraa&adroom door till he went to sleep.
I wtt onoe told, when on a salmon in
spection, that a certain wilier conic
{ sleep so Jong a« the continued whirr of
the mill wheel was going on, but di
rectly after the noise stopped he
awoke! '
The deepest sleep is always just be
fore dawn. It is, I believe, probable
that some change takes place at this
time in the atmospheric condition, as*
the hour just before dawn is selected
by savages to make their attack, and it
is at this time also, I believe, that a
great proportion of children are born.
When staying at a country house, un
fortunately the visitor not accustomed
to country sounds gets often woke up.
The abominable cockB begin their hor
rible crowing, called in Hereforshire
“cock shoot.” I recollect on one oc
casion, after the wretched cocks had
{ rone from the fowl honse to feed, I
ell asleep, and then came a most awful
cry of agony ; in fact, the farmer killed
a pig under my window—enough to
wake anybody. This pig was most
vociferous, but as he was immolated in
honor of my arrival, I could not say
much.
My monkeys always get sleepy when
the gas is lighted in my study, where I
and my monkeys always sit. This
room was once called by the sernants
the " master’s room,” but I found out
lately, by accident, that they now call
it the " monkeys’ room.” This is
Darwin going backward!
Ocean’s Greatest Banger.
The worst feature of the loss of the
Schiller is that it resulted from a cause
wh ; ch is ever existent, and for whioh
there is no remedy. Fog cannot be
seen through with human eyes, and it
oannot be uplifted or removed by hu
man means. Every steamship that
crosses the ocean is liable to run for
hours, and for days, in a fog so dense
that an approaching vessel could not
be seen in time to avoid aoollision; and
when nearing the shore a like risk is
ran in Regard to rooks and breakers.
This is a danger attendant npon the
great increase in the rapidity of transit,
whioh science and art have not, as yet,
found any means to avert.
To run slower in a fog might diminish
the danger somewhat: bat to be'effect
ive, in any considerable degree, it would
have to be adopted by all the lines,
going both ways. And even then the
traveling pnblio would not tolerate it.
People will inenr any amount of risk of
going to destruction rather than not to
go fast.
There seems to be nothing to be done
toward diminishing the chances of be
ing sunk at sea in a fog except the pro
vision of more ample means of escape.
These do not appear to have been what
they should have been on board the
Schiller. Her captain acted the part of
brave and gallant seaman, and per
ished in an effort to rescue some of his
passengers. Bnt why were not better
appliances for such an emergency sup
plied by the owners of the ship? It is
of no use to argue that they were anf-
ficient: if they nad been no snoh loss
of life conid nave occurred. When we
say that the steamer was commanded by
a competent captain and that three
hundred and forty-two' lives were lost,
we settle the point that the life-saving
apparatus was not what should have
been found on board such a vessel.
When a few steamship owners shall
have ben sent to the State prison for
manslaughter, ocean travel may become
safer.—N. Y. Sun.
Wood-Carving for Schools*
The British government has recently
been making inquiries as to the timber
production and wood industries of Ea-
roflg. fnd Aaqongaiher jetanaation hss
been furnished with a vert interesting
of wood-carving in Switzerland.
ving statements is
regard to the wood-carvers, speaks very
highly of the art as a mode of oultiya-
is of considerable value as affording
training for other trades. The Ober-
land child*, brought uj ip tti*» midst of
an unceasing school of modeling and
design, acquires special qualifications
for making a first-rate carpenter, look-
smith, engraver, stone-cutter, decorative
painter, architect, etc. For this reason
Mr. Jenner, who makes the report, sug
gests that the introduction of wood
carving into the board schools of 'Lon
don might not be unattended with ben
eficial effects, and that none the less
because the extra expense incurred for
the instrnction of the children ought to
be repaid by their earnings after the
system has been a few years in existence.
He says: "The intuitive love of every
Anglo-Saxon boy for cutting up wood
with a knife, which usually takes the
form of boat-making in England, he
thinks might be easily turned to account
in imparting the elements of tho art.
As wood-carving on a large Beale is
greatly facilitated by the nse of various
kinds of machinery, it might be possi
ble, when the system had reached a
liper development, to add a certain
amount of mechanical knowledge to the
other acquirements of the frequenters
of pnblio schools. As a branch of for
eign labor wood-carving would appear
to be quite unexceptionable, economi
cally speaking, in England. It need
encroach npon no (Xisting industry, and
would have little to fear from competi
tion for some years to come, thus being
secure of two of the first essentials for
the labor of criminals, non-interference
with honest labor, and a free field for a
sufficient time to make the system work
in regular routine. The country might
thus by degrees be endowed with a new
branch of industry, for which, owing to
great meohanical skill and the eape-
—It seems that the patient silence of
the imperturbable angler has been just
so much stillness wasted. The old no
turn that you can’t catch a fish unless
must now go down to
with that .ether time-
the belief that spitting
tes fish bite better. Seth
. owif « great deal about
fishes, and has spent much' time in
sttidying their habits, thinks they can
not hear. He once asked a band of
music to range themselves around a
tank of fish, and at a given signal to
blow their loudest blast. This they
did, but not a fish stirred. Tuey are,
however, very sensitive to jars, and a
slight tap on the bottom of one of the
tanks made every fish dart off like a
flash. -
Come, and let us Reason Together.
—To the afflicted in body, we offer a
few words of plain, practical reasoning.
No matter under what form of sickness
you labor there is one great truth you
should ever keep in mind, viz: All dis
ease originates m an impure condition
of the blood. Purify that, and the dis
ease must depart, for it has nothing to
feed on; bnt you cannot purify the
blood by the use of poisonous drugs,
and exhaustive stimulants; the relief
which these afford is temporary and de
ceptive, leaving you worse off at every
interval The best Blood Puri filer ever
discovered is Da. Walker’s Famous
Vinegar Bitters, compounded of sim
ple herbs. No matter how hopeless
your case may seem, try the Vinegar
Bitters, and a few draughts will con
vince you of their value. Dr. Walker,
the discoverer of this priceless remedy,
had been given up to die by the Physi
cians, and is now a sound and healthy
man from their nse.
—A foretaste of what is to come has
an exponent in the person of a woman
who is frequently seen about the oity.
Her nether limbs are clothed in mul
berry-colored pantaloons, above which
is a waist of some dark stuff, with skirt
reaching half way to the knees, and a
classically draped shawl falls from her
shoulders; the hair, surmounted by an
Alpine hat of felt, caught up at one
side with a feather, is worn long and
flowing. —Boston Evening Traveler.
—Elephants live for two honored,
three htmdred, and even four hundred
years,
oial facilities we possess for procuring
the most beautiful and the rarest woods
at comparatively low rates, Great Brit
ain would appear to be peculiarly fitted.
It is hardly too mnoh to say that what
the zeal of one man, Christian Fischer,
of Brianz, was able to achieve for the
benefit of his fellow-eitizenB of the
Oberland in 1816, is not beyond the
powers of the thousands of highly qual
ified gentlemen who are striving to ad
vance the cause of education in Eng
land. At all events, as Mr. Jenner
observes, there would be bnt little barm
in trying the experiment in one of the
reformatories or prisons.”
What The Times has to Say.
The London Times thus concludes a
leader on the centennial celebration of
the skirmishes at Lexington and Con
cord:
"We have yet to read the speeches
made on the occasion, and the com
ments of American journalism npon
them, hut we hope noth will be per
vaded by a more just and more friendly
tone towards this country than would
have been possible half a century or
even a quarter of a century ago. If the
inveetives of the living can effect the
dead, poor old George lit, Lord North,
and nil the subordinate instruments of
British tyranny,’ must have expatiated
their guilt under the pitiless fire of
American oratory on every successive
fourth of July during the century.
Moreover, the spirit which this kind of
eloquence kept alive has, as all the
world knows, not been without its effect
on politics. Let ns hope these cente
nary years will reveal a fuller knowledge
of events and a more kindly interpreta
tion of motives, and that by the time
the Americans come to celebrate the
i miivwilidii Hi> York town Hi« ktrojiiu icr-H
! of a huuuiOu years will have vanished.’
In former times one of the supposed
characteristics of fishes was that they
took no care or notice of their eggs or
spawn, or of their young: but it is
known that some species of the sunfish,
at least* carefully watch their spawn
until incubation takes place, and care
for the young fish for some time after
ward. These varieties of the Bunfish
also live in pairs.
—" As Boon as life was extinct I cut
him down,” explained a Kansas woman
to the coroner’s jury who sst on, her
dead husband.
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Manhattan, Kan.
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Mn. E. B. Daly, Metropolis, 111. writes:
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Mart Ann Fbibbie. Lehman. Pa., writes:
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Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription io sold by
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machine, and get one of the best and moat
perfect machines in existence. Tho Wilson
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exceilesce and perfectness equaled bv no ma
chine in use, and the constantly and rapidly
increasing demand, whioh is almost beyond
their manufacturing capacity to supply is con
vincing evidence that the merits or this ma
chine are appreciated. Machines will be de
livered at any railroad station in this county,
free of transportation charges, if ordered
through the company’s branch honse at 189'
Canal street. New Orleans, La. They send an
elegant catalogue and ebromo circular free on
application. This company want a few more
agents.
There are several kinds of worms
which trouble horses; the pin-worms (pointed
at both ends) are the most common and most
dangerous, Sheridan’s Cavalry Condition
Powders will in a few days eject the worms,
and the horse will begin to thrive
Factories and machine shops should
not be allowed to run a day without Johnson’s
Anodyne Liniment. In case of a sudden acci
dent, an immediate nee of it may savo weeks
of suffering, and perhapB a limb, or oven life.
See advertisement Foster’s Second
Texas Drawing postponed for a few days. Cer
tificates of doposit,payable only when the draw
ing takes place, will be received for tickets.
Burnett’s Oocoaise is tho host
cheapest hair dressing in the world.
and
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A Consumptive Cubed.—When death was hourly
expected from Consumption, all remedies having
faued, accident led to a discovery whereby Dr. H.
Jamoa cured his only child with a preparation of Can-
nabit Indica. He now gives recipe free on receipt of
two stamps to pay expenses. There is not a single
symptom of consumption that it does not dissipate—
Night Sweats, Irritation of the Nervis, Difficult Ex
pectoration, sharp Paine in the Lung*, Nausea at the
Stomach, Inaction of the Bowels, and Wasting of the
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Delays are Dasgeron. Don’t neglect
your Cough. It may get beyond control. Dr. Tutt’i
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