Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-05-27
NO. XVI.

mo. XVI.
to seize the former and ride MIN on q rail, until
| he should be permanently MANNED in a'painful
and humiliating manner. The fendish proposi.
sitou was acceded to with prolonged and IL
Universal .sAmeni" 4 ~
Curioslties Of Sleep.
In Turkey, if q person falls asleepin the neigh
borhood Of poppy field, and the wind blows
over toward him, he becomes gradually narcot-
lied and would die if the country people, who
are we'll acquainted with the circumstance, did
not bring him to the next well, or stream. and
empty pitcher after pitcher OF water on his face
and body. DR.. Appenheim,s during bis resi-.
dence in Turkey, owed his life 10 this simple and
eficacious treatment. DR.. Graves, from whom
this anecdote is quoted, also reports the case Of
gentleman thirty years of age, who, from long
continued sleepness, was reduced to complete
living skeleton, unable to stand his legs. 1t
was partly owing to disease, but chiefly to the
abuse of mercury and opium; until at last, una
BILE to pursue his business, he sank into abject
poverty and woe. Dr. Reid mentions q friend
of his, who, whenever anything occurred to dis c
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A fellow student also at Edinburg, upon hearing
suddenly the unexpected death Of q near rela-
tive, threw himself on his bed and almost in-
simultaneously, amid the glare of MONDAY, sunk
into profound slnmber. Another person read
ing aloud to one of his dearest friends stretched
on his death-bed, fell fast asleep, and with the
book still in his hand, went on reading, utterly
unconscious of what he was doing. A woman
at Hamadt slept seventeen or eighteen hours
day for fifteen years. Another is recorded to
have slept once for four days. DR.. Macnish
mentions woman who spent three-fourths of
her life in sleep, and DR.. Eliottson quotes the
case of young lady who slept for six weeks
and recovered. The venerable st. Augustine of
Hippo prudently divided his hours into three
parts, eight TO be devoted to sleep, eight to rec-
tations and eight to converse with the world
Maniacs are reported particularly in the eastern
hemisphere, to become furiously vigilant during
the full of the moon, more especially when the
deteriorating rays of its polarized light is per-
mitted to fall into their apartment, hence the
name lunatics. There certainly is greater prone
ness to disease during sleep than in the waking
state, for those who pass the night in the Cam
pagne du Roma inevitably become infected with
its noxious air; while travellers who 20 through
without stopping escape the lniasma. Intense
cold produces sleep, and those who perish in the
snow sleep on till they sleep tho sleep OF death.
WILL 1T BE WARNING IA correspondent of
The Boston Journal says that the wife OF Hunt
ngton, the forger has been stripped of her home
in the space of one hour The sheriff has sold her
house over her head. Her jewels, valued at $l5,-
300, are with the Beldens. What has been done
with the vast sums of money Huntington had,
none can tell. But this is true, that like many
others, want has come into his family. And
to keep herself from absolute want, she has been
to part with her clothes and her little
ornaments and remnants of better days. So the
career of crime has one more beacon set up in
the pathway of l;fe-one more family has been
hurled from the summit of high position and
honor in moment-one wife and mother to
gather up her little children, on whose heads
lishonor has been stamped, without their fault,
black as the brand of Cain, and 60 out from
home to meet want, and scOrn, and
brave the cold, CLASSY eye of the world, and feel
the hot breath of its sneer-one example is given
to MS to teach how the same talents which led to
high crime and the prison, employed Alright,
could confer honor and permanent success on tho
possessor, and be blessing to the land Likea
convict who falls from ship, Huntington has
parted and agtated the waves for moment, and
gone down beneath the surge, and the rolling
flood sweeps over his place, and the tide OF life
waves on forgetting he ever lived. l
THE GREATEST HAIRDREssER IN THE WORLD
GoSE-Leger, the. well-known hairdresser of
the opera, has just expired. lie was so modest
q man that he not unfrequently spoke of the sub
lime inspirations which he had in bis art. One
evening he was called in to dress the hair OF
very beautiful woman, then much admired in
Paris. He found quantity of flowers, ribbons,
and wreaths on the table to choose from, and,
by chance near them pair of silk stockings,
which that lady was to wear. Leger cast q
glance of contempt at the ordinary articles pre-
pared for him, and sezing on the stockings, de-
cared that he would dress her bair with them.
The lady, who had full confidence in his taste,
made no objection; and the same night she ap-
peared with an incomprehensble chez Gaurre
on her head, producing an admirable elect
The next morning the lady received several ap-
plicatons from persons whom she knew, request
ing to know where they could obtain head
dress of similar beauty. and inquiring whether
it could not be lent for an hour. The lady re-
piled that the principal material was web of
the Tarantula spider, which never lasted but one
night, and that consequently lending was out of
the question. Strange to say, not one of them
was ever able to find the material mentioned by
the lady. - @fe~
SUBMITTING THE CASE WITHOUT ARGUMENT.-
F., Vermont lawyer of Distinguished a.
bility, now residing at ST. Louis, and in the first