The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1846-04-17
VOL. VINO. 4S.

INC u!SSOlutIol al INC monastery inc
whole Contrlvance was detected.
; Two of the monks who had been
led into the secret, had taken the
:, blood OF a duck, which they renew
Cd every week they PIT il ina vial,
one side of which consisted OF thin
and transparent crystal, the other OF
Trick and opaque. When any rich
pilgrim arrived, they were sure to
show him the dark side OF the vial
till mass end offerings had ex-
plated his offences, and then, finding
his money, or patience, or faith,
nearly exhausted, they made him
happy by turning the vial"
Pyophecy # dreams. THE re
cords Of antiquity TEEN with
tales Of fatal prognosiics to he
roeS, kings ana empcrors, whose
deaths, indccd, seldom take place
without a prophecy. From Aris-
totle we learn that the death Of Al
eXander was ioretold in dream Of
EudemiuS, and that Of Cesar BY lis
wife CalphurniG. The emperor
Marius dreamed that he saw Attila's
bow broken, and the Hun king died
ON the same night and Sylla died
ou the night succeeding that OH
which he dreamed of such fate.
Nalcrius Maxiinus re cords the death
of Caius Gracious Immediately af-
ter dreaming of it, by his mother.
Caracalla foretold his assassination
in dream. Cyrus dreamed of the
exact moment in Which he died. The
death of Socrates was fortold to him
by lady. The mother of Joan of
Arc dreamed that she brought forth
a thunder holt, and Arlotte, the mo-
Their of William the Conqucror, that
her intestines covered the whole land
of Normandy. Like confirmed in
sanity, the essence Of the dream is
usually a ,oant IF balance 6efween
the representative JucuHy and tie
J"d gment; being produced, directly
or indirectly by the excitement of
chain Of ideas, rational or probable
in parts, but rendered in different
degrees eXtravagant, or Elusive by
imperfect association. Thus the
ideas of a dream may de considered
a specics Of delirium; for the figures
and situations of both are often of
the most heterogeneous description,
and both are ever Elusive, being be-
licyed to be realities, and not being
subject to the control of our intel
lect. Yet, if the most absurd dream
be analysed, its constituent parts
may consist of ideas, in themselves
not irrational, or of sensations or in
cidents, which have been indiyidu-
ally felt or witnessed.
SomnambUiism.-"This is the
most perfect paradox among the
phenomena of sleep, as it exhibits
actions without consciousness of
them indeed so complete suspcn-
sion Of sensibility, that contact,
nay intense infections, do not pro-
duce that mental consciousness
which is calculated 70 incite alarm
or even attention.
"The crew of q revenue boat .,
the coast Of Ireland. about ,wo %,
clock in the morn;ng nicLed nm
man swiminc in tLe watcy H. LsJ
it appeared. left lis home abou,
twelve, and walked two miles over
a most DANGEROUS hath. and had
swum about one mile. After he WA
taken into the boat. he could not hn
persuaded that he was not s,;ll j.,
his warm bed NJ home,
SIN 1874. Nari. po, ,y,s ,3m;,,.l
into the hosp,tal At BorGca,y Iar
ler, hand and ar,n coyerrdw;tL dcrn
and bleeding easlr.s its tr,. Hons nrn
iccting and tho bone, trolcn ST.,
had. in her slecn. oonc irt, ~ La -
cut wood. She bsd 'Lacl.ed isr ra,.
arm and hand. vu.il She f.ints,
away. and leIl batlrJ il Lrr owen
blood. She LgI EN ma najn hr,
merely had a sensation ,s !, tbe
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