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—i NATURE'S SWEET RESTORER. Tlie Best Way ot Gettlag Asleep and Keeping so. ' frank Buckland’i Essay in Zend and Water, We wri oflMtoBik |M foe, inBomnia, Mpl tAaeildlot i&A/Elabini. 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. Lit The People Speak. Manhattan, Kan. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.: Hear Sir—Your Favorite Prescription has done my wife a world o£ good. She han taken nearly two bottles and bas felt better tbe past two weeks than at any time in tbe pant two years. No more periodical pains; none of that aching back or dragging sensation in hor stom- sbe bas been accustomed to for several years. I have so much cofidence in it that I would be perfectly willing to warrant to certain cus tomers of oum who would be glad to got relief at any expense. I have tried, many Patent Medicines, bnt never bad any ocoasion to extol one before. Very truly yonm, Geo. B.'Whiting Mn. E. B. Daly, Metropolis, 111. writes: “Dr. B. V. Pierce—Mv sister is using the Favorite Prescription with great benefit.” Mart Ann Fbibbie. Lehman. Pa., writes: “Dr. B. V. Pierce—What I have taken of your medicine has been of more benefit to me than all others and hundreds of doctor's bills” Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription io sold by dealers in medicines generally. Save Money.—It is well worth saving,, and you can save it in buying a sewing: machine, and get one of the best and moat perfect machines in existence. Tho Wilson shuttle sewing machine has reached a point of 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 ASIAN OF A THOUSAND. 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. 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