Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1855-03-15
fine weather. Had been then more versed
in poetry, might have addressed him in the
words of Logan to the cuckoo:

words of Logan to the cuckoo: ..
"Sweet bird! thy power is ever green
Thy sky Is ever clear; IN ..
Thou Inst no sorrow in thy note
No winter in thy year. . ......
Oh! could hy, I'D fly with ,lee, .
We'd make, on joyful wing,
Our tnnun visit round the globe, .f
Companions Of the spring." .... ..
Further observation and experience have
given me different idea OF this little feath.
cred voluptuary, which will venture to i'm
part, for the benefit Of my schoobey readers,
who may regard him with the same unquali.
fed envy and admiration which once indul.
ged have shown him only as ] saw him
at first, in what may call the poeticsl part
of his career, when he in manner devoted
himself to elegant pursuits and eni me nts,
and was a bird Of music, and song, and taste,
and sensibiity. and refinement. While this
lasted, he was sacred from injury; the very
school-boy would not fling stone at him !,
end the meres. rustic would pause to listen
to his strain. But mark the difference. As
the year advances, as the clover blossoms
disappear, and the spring fades into summer;
he gradually gives up his elegant tastes and
habits, dofs his poetical suit of of black, as.
sumes russell dusty garb, and sinks to the
gross enjoyments of common vulgar Birds
His notes no longe- vbrate on the ear; he is
stuffing himself with The seeds of the tall
weeds on which be lately swung and chanted
so melodously. He has become "bon vi
vant," "gourmand;" with him now there is
nothing like the "jovs of tie table," In a
little while he grows tired Of plain homely
fare, and is off on agastronomic tour in quest
of foreign uxuries. We next hear of him
with nyriads Of his kind, banqueting among
the reeds Of the Delaware; and grown cor
pulent with good feeding. He has changed
his name in travelling. Boblincon no more
he is the Reed-bird now, the much sought
for titbit ofPennsylvania epicures; the rival
in unlucky fame of the ortolan! Wherever
he goes, pop! pop. pop! every rusty firelock
in the country is blazing away. He sees
his compani ms falling by thousands around
him.
Does he take warning, and reform! Alas,
not he ncor,igible epicure! Again he
wings his fl ght The rice swamps Of the
Ocutu lufltO llC Sp' 'SCS uhOup
them almost to bursting, he can scarcely fly
for corpulency. He has once more changed
his name, and is now the famous R;ce-bi OF
the Caroinas.
Last stage ofths career; behold him spit
ted with dozens Of his corpule mt companions
and served up yaunted dish on the table
of some Southern gastronome.
Such ID the stary of the Boblink; once
spiritual, musical, admired, the joy of the
meadows, and the favorite bird of spring
finally, u gross littl lie sensualist, who expiates
his sensuality in the larder. His story con-
tains a moral worthy the attention of ali
little birds and little boys; warning them to
keep to those refined aud intellectual pur.
suits, which raised him to so high pitch Of
popularity during the early part of his career
but to eschew all tendency to that gross ane
disspated Indulgence, which brought this
mistaken little bird to an untime|y end.
Midnight.
Hufeland, in his treaties on sleep, ha;
some curious as we'll as forcible ideas on the
necessity Of devoting midnight to rest and
sleep. He considers that the period of TWEEN.
ty four hours, which is produced by the rev.
olution OF tie earth on its axis, II arks its in.
huence most definitely on the physical econ
omy OF I,an. Diseases show. this regular
influence in their daily rise and fall. Set
tied, regular levers exhibi, twenty -four
hours tlux and refux. In The hcalthful state,
there is manifest the same regular influence
and The mere ha5itual our meals, our hours o
exercise or employment. and our hours OF
exercise or employment, and our hours o
sleep, the more power is there in the sys
tenn to resist disease. In the morning, tht
pulse is slower and the nerves cnlmer, and
! the mind and the body better fitted for every
description Of labor. As we advance towards
the evening OF the day, the pulse becomes
accelerated, and an almost feverish state i,
produced, which, in excitabe people, be.
comes an absolute evening fever. Rest car
res off this fever by its sleep, and the re
freshing opening o. its pores which sleep pro
duces. In this nightly respiration, there il
an absolute crisis Of this evening fever, ant
, this periodical crisisis necessary to ever,
one, for it carries off whatever useless o
pernicious PARTICLES our bodies may have i'm
| bbed.
| This evening fever, Hufeland thinks, as
not entirely owing to the accession of new
chye to the system, but to the sun and of tn
| light The crisis of this fever, to be mos
effective by itsregularity, ought to take plac
at midnight when the sun is in its nadir, an
) then the body becomes refreshed for the IT
!, " morning labor. Those who neg lect thi
period either push !hs durnal crisis into tn
morning. and thus undermine the importance
, Of it's regularity, or lose it entirely, and aris
TO their labers nrefreshed by sleep Thei
bodies will not have been purified by tn
, nightly crisis, and the seeds o! disease vii
thus have been planted.
Nervous people are peculiarly subject I.
5 the influence of this evening fever, ana thin
) tbey cannot labor without its excitement =
: Hence there mental efforts are perfor med i
the night alone, the important time for tn
!, crisis of their nervous excitement passe
: over in wakefulness and no refreshing per
n spiration ceanscs the body or strengthen
g the nerves. Such people will wear out 500