The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1857-06-25
SLEEP.

WV WV h"uo VI o'eep, Ihe COUipicto
and tho incomplete. The complete is wl,at
Is generally called second sleep, during
Which tho 'senses arc locked up, tho mind
becomes refreshed and there is no dreaming.
The incomplete is more or less broken by
dreams, by sudden starts and wakeful fits,
and consequently does not invigorate the
mind like the former.
There are variety of ways in which
sleep may be produced, and there are
many things by which it is modified. Heat
and excessive cold are both calculated to
cause drowsiness. Thousands of the poor
soldiers who followed Napoleon in the
disastrous retreat from Moscow, perished
because they could not resist the inclina.
ton to lie down and sleep in the snow.
fhe qualification of the desires, the cxhaus-
ton consequent upon severe bodily or men
tai nature greatly prolonged, induce slum-
Der. If one indulges to excess in food, if
instead of eating moderately he makes q
heavy meal, sleepiness is the inevitable
result. 1t is unnecessary to say, also, that
there is very intimate and well establish
cd connection between drowsiness, heated
church and dull sermon.
Sleep is modified by habit. Some per
sons cannot sleep unless silence reigns
around them, and others must slumber in
noise or they cannot slumber at alias
for instance millcr-who cannot sleep in
his mill unless it is going. Tho moment it
stops, he wakes. Sleep is modified by age.
The infant slumbers the greateer portion of
its time, the youth less and the adult but
a few hours. Some persons make out with
only few hours sleep during the twenty
four, but as general thing, seven hours
are about right Sleep is modified also by
the quantity of animal food taken for nour-
'shment, and by variety of other causes
too numerous to mention.-OHve Branch.
Beauty.-somebody well says: "It
has been thought by many that beauty is
athing possessing an existence in and of it.
self. 1t is, we think rather an effect than
a cause, thing resulting from matters of
essential use, or of something that is TO
be used, and not designed rs mere spec
taclc. Handsome that handsome does" ("
is true saying. Beauty is concomitant
to perfection. To be beautiful and not good
is to defraud nature, and the penalty is an
ultimate degeneracy to the extreme of de-
for'nity and ugliness. All young women
who give the promise of beauty to the eve
and breake it to the heart are in the end
sure to become hideous hags, as the out
ward will inevitably conform to the inward
law. A beautiful, countenance is desioned
as the outward insignia of an indwelinp
goodness"
Gr'ev'ng for Lost Pearis-It would DC
hard to tell whether most Joy or sorrow has
been caused at Notch Brook, N. J., by the
discovery Of the pearls. Dozens are be-
moaning fortunes that, in days past, they
carclcssly flung away. One matron, una.
va'llng, sighs over some "littlo white things"
that she once give her boys for marbles
A schoolmaster lugubrous1y remembers that
he had chopped up eight or ten thou
sand dollars worth, with his penknife, "to
see what was inside" Another genius
rammed pearl bullet down his ,if1c and
shot away his fortune. An old lady who
chuckled six months over her "good bar
gain with the pedlar," now discovers that
she paid him in pearls, about seven thou.
sand dollars for calico dress. 1t is need.
less to say she hasn't laughed since. The
unfortunate man who had the S25, 900 one
cooked for his breakfast, has taken to bed
in utter despair, and refuses to be comfor-
ted.-Ezchaage.
Gen. Washington seldom indulged in a
joke or sarcasm, but when he did he al
ways made decided Lit. II is related that
he was present in Congress during the de.
bate on the establishment of the Fed
eral army, when member offered a reso-
luton limiting the army to three thousand
men, upon which Washington suggested to
member an amendment providing that
no enemy should euer invade the couutrv
NTH more than taoo thousqaa soldiers. The
laughter which ensued sd6thered tho resolu.
ton.
Americans at Ronse.-Several hundred
Americans have been passing the spring
months in the eternal city, and letter of
and about them says:
"Our fair countrywomen always bear
Oft the palm of beauty at every assembly.
Adorned or unadorned, theirs is the nobil-
ity of nature, and they wear upon their
brows the regal impress of a free people.
Their charms are so transcendent as to be
admitted by all-even surly John Bull
without dissent"