The Delaware register, or, Farmers', manufacturers' & mechanics' advocate. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1828-1829, 1829-06-13
SLEEP.


aborer, and for the scholar and gentleman Very few
gentlemen, however, satisfied with this scale and capa
city for sleeping makes the greater part of this class of the
community inclined to double the period The capacity for
sleeping, like the capacity for eating and drinking is to be
increased by indulgence Much depends upon habit Some
people sleep when they will, and wake when they will;
and much refreshed with short nap long
arng people have this property from education. have
known persons who INDUCED second sleep. One
gentleman who entertained notion that second nap
injurious invariably got up he awoke, matter
how early the hourwinter or summer Others again will
sleep for hours One gentleman the Spec
taor, used to sleep by weight allow myself night
with another. quarter of pound of Sleep within few
grains more or ess and it, upon rsg find have not
sumed my whole quantity, take out the rest my chair
lazy old used to apologize for laying bed by say
ing that she laid in bed TO conrye Strange this old
woman's excuse was it example followed by of
the most extraordinary genuses in this country Brndley
Of whom is recorded that when great difficulty
red in the execution of his works. having little
from books the abors of other men, his
lay within himself In orde therefore, be quiet and
teuped, whilst he search of the necessary exped
ents he generally retired his bed and he has been known
TO lie two, three days. till he has obtained the object
in would then get up and execute his design with
out any drawing model There different kinds of sleep
well different kinds of sleeps cannot sleep
from homeohers cannot sleep at homes sleep
board and carpet while others tumble and toss
soft bed, if the down disconnected hem Some again
cannot sleep in noise others sleep of it. mill
Ter awakens the moment the mill stops; tradesman from
Cheapsde cannot sleep in the country, because cit
paguey quiet Somnambulists, sleep-walkers, usually
sleep with their eyes open; but without vision Shakespeare
who be considered good medical authority, makes
Lady Macbeth somnambuls with her eyes open but their
Shut This always the case, however, and
there singular exception the instance of Johannes
Opornnes, printer, who being employed night in
recng copy of Greek book, fell asleep he read, and
ceased not to read till he had finished not less than whole
page of which, when he awoke he retained recollection
There many curious histories of sleeping, record
The Philosophical Transactions have severa one,
slept from August till January There read before
the Society of Physicians 1856 of Elizabeth Oryn, who
began her sleeping fit 1888, by four days nap and for
years afterwards slept than out of the
"a DR. Brady relates that methods re-
sorted to- to hesuch rubbing her back with honey
and in hot day exposing her hive of bees till her back
full of bumps-makng pncushion of her. and perform
ing acupuncuraon, with pins and needesfageaton and
other odd experiments which the Doctor informs us he
thinks better to pass in silence all of which might
well have been spared for she very suky and good
for nothing when awake This sukness however, should be
noticed being connected with the complaint Previously
this somnoent disease many of the persons have
uneasy, sulen and sury In all, the mind has evidently
been affected and in where there has been extreme
abstinence their waking hours have been characterized by
decided mental aberation-Engish Quarterly Journal
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DIR Johnson remarked that the Americans ought
to be thankful for any thing which the British Nation
allowed them, short of hanging Whatever might be I
thought of the beraty Of this anathema at the time
when it was uttered, under present circumstances it
sounds rather obsolete The spirit however, which the
above sentiment breahes, not at all to have for
saken the British writer's and they might very we'll adopt
it standing text to their illusions concerning the
people of the United States. We have now case in 4
point. Captain Basil Hail. the traveller par erceLeace
who to give the British public the clearest insight h
into the American manners and affairs. has. according