Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1855-01-20

MIDNIGHT in his treatise or
sleep, has some curious as well as forcible ideas
on the necessity of devoting midnight to res
and sleep. He considers that the period o.
twenty-four hours, which is produced by the
regular revolution of the earth en- its axle
marks its influence most definitely on the physi
| cal economy of man. Diseases show this reg
ular influence, IN their daily rise and fall
| Settled, regular fever exhibits twenty foul
hours fux and re1ux. In the healthful state
| there is manifest the same regular influence
and the more habitual our meals, our hours Of
exercise or employment, and our hours of sleep,
| the more power is there in the system to resist
disease. In the morning the pulse is slow and
| the nerves calmer, and the mind and body
better fitted for labor. AS we advance towards
the evening of the day, the pulse becomes ac-
| CELEBRATED, and an almost feverish state is pro-
duced, which, in excitable persons, becomes an
| absolute evening fever. Rest carries off this
fever by its sleep, and the refreshing opening of
the pores which sleep produces. In this nightly
respiration, there is an absolute crisis of this
evening fever, and this periodical crisis is ne
cessary to every one, for it carries off whatever
| useless or pernicious particles our bodies may
/ have imbibed.
! This evening fever, Hufeland thinks, is not
entirely owing to the accession of new chyle to
the system, but to the departure of the sun and
| the light. The crisis of this fever, to be most
effective by its regularity, ought to take place
at midnight, when the sun is in its nadir, and
then the body becomes refreshed for the early
| morning labor. Those who neglect this PERIOD
either push this diurnal crisis into the morning
and thus undermine the Importance of its regu-
larity, or lose it entirely and arise to their
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not have been purified by the nightly crisis, and
the seeds of disease will have thus been planted.
Nervous people are peculiarly subject to the
influence of this evening fever, and thick they
cannot labor without its excitement. Hence
their mental efforts are performed in the night
alone; the important time for the crisis of their
nervous excitement passes over in wakefulness,
and no refreshing perspiration cleanses the
body or strengthens the nerves. Such people
will wear out soon, unless they change their
habits and seek rest when nature and the
human constitution dictate sa
These considerations ought to be deeply
studied and regarded by all who are in the
ruinous habit of turning night into day and of
changing the functions of each. A failure Of
health will soon manifest the truth of these
lremarks.-HaryordC ourant.
PROPER REBUKE.--A correspondent Of the
| Cincinnati Columbian tells the following story
"At Lafayette well-dressed man, accom-
panied by an interesting looking lady, evidently
his wife, and two sweet little children, entered
the cars. He was short of stature, with short,
turned-up nose, 4 short, thick lip, small eyes,
and :imperceptible eyebrows. The lady had a
pleasing expression in her pale countenance,
that bore the impress of suffering patience.
Her younger child appeared sick, and tossed
fretfully on her wearied knees. The other soon
grew tired of the ifksomeness of the car, and
became fretful and impatient The man, for
can not call him gentleman, lay layzily reading
paper, lounging on whole seattle monopolized
to himself, though other passengers we're stand
ing At length the lady, perfectly unable to
attend to the two little ones, in q tone Of gen
tleness that had something Of fear in it, be-
sought him to attend to the wants Of the elder.
She was answered in loud and abrupt tone
that attracted every body's attention; Don't
bother met Her eyes dropped; Q look Of
mingled sorrow and shame came over her face,
but she said not word. A few moments after
ward the Conductor, Mr.. Paul, came along, and
the man enquired Of him the distance to Michi-
gan City. With a tone modelled to the life after
that previously used by his interrogation, Paul
Kissed out Don't bother me!' The mans eyes
glared fury, as he demanded the reason Of such
an insult, and threatened to resent it unless q
proper apology was offered" II
"' shall offer no apology for my language,
said the noble hearted conductor, neither will
you resent it; for a man who deems himself
injured, by having applied to him the same Ian
guage he has disgraced himself By applying to
lady, is too little Of . gentleman to be apollo
gised to, and too much of . coward to dare to
resent i'll !"
CHOLERA IN GREEcE.-0n the 9th of Novem.
Der, the cholera was raging at the Piraens with
great violence The inhabitants who had begun