The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1860-11-27
SLEEP, OR TuIs AND THAT.

SLEEP, OR THIS AND THAT.
Some one sided, one eyed individual ha
made the following calculation, which
mathematically correct, but practically. is q
false and niSchevious ~ can well be express
ed in plain English:
The difference between rising ever,
morning At six and eight, in the course .
forty wears, amounts To twenty nine tn usan'
three hundred and ninety hours, or tire,
years, one hundred and twenty one days, an,
sixteen hours, which are equal to eight hour
n day fr exactly ten years: so that rising
at six will he the same as if ten wears Of lifc
were added, wherein we II ay command eight
hours every day, for the cultivation of ou
miLds aud the dispatch of business"
THAT.
The following communication was recently
made to British society:
"A Chinese merchant had been convicted
Of numbering his wife, and was sentenced to
die 10y hciug deonved Of sleep This painful
mode of death was carried into execution un-
Ger the following circu instances:
THE condemned WAS placed in prison un-
der ,h" care Of three Of the police guard who
relieved each other every alternate Lour, anil
who prevented the prisoner from falling
asleep n ,ht or day. He thus lived for nine.
teen days without enjoying any slnep. At
the commencement of the eighth dav his suf.
feri"gs were so intense that he implored the
anti critics to grant him the blessed opportu-
ui;y OF being strangled gullotined, burned
to death drowned, garoted, shot, qnartered +,
blown up with powder, or put TO death in
any other way which their humanity or fero-
city could invent"
Crazy people can't sleep at ALL The man
who is "lat IA a fool sleeps all the time ex-
ccpt when eating. A tin Yankee, so keen
after making money, that the look Of his eye
goes right through you, and his word pierces
like poinard, goes to bed at midnight and
is ready for work or bargain at peep Of
days teetosalIy dried up at the age of for.
ty years; the skin fairly clngs to The bones;
AZ ID before you know it, he has evaporated.
But look at that fat. lazy Dutchrnan, who
never was fully and fairly awake since he
Was born, and in spite Of pipes of "lager" and
whole tierces Of tobacco, he lives to see the
third, if not indeed the fourth generation.-
Who ever heard Of any sleeping themselves
to DEATH But no sleep brings death in nine
teen days.
1t is stated that one Of the most eminent.
one OF the best Of men Of this nineteenth cen.
tury, that while at college he retired at twelve
o'clock ard rose at six and half. A man
of his activity OF brain ought to have at least
eight hours sound sleep in every twenty -four.
But look at the sketch he makes of himself
about this very time:
"Pardon the vagaries Of half.crazed stu.
dent. My old complaint the blues, have
come upon me like a strong man armed
Msanthroy, despise it, loathe it, yet
hug it to my heart. Truly, am depressed
devoured by spleen, fostering a grabbed. mo.
rose, silly, churlish, sinful despondency."
Such feelings continued to haunt this gen.
tlemen more or less throughout life, and he
failed to reach three score, by several years.
That insufficient sleep would aggrava,e the
maIady of misanthropy, even when it does
not largely aid in originating it, and that it
lays the foundation for a premature death,
no intelligent physician will deny. The OBJ.
servant reader need only bring to bis remem.
berancc the disagreeabe feelings OF any DAY
which Was preceded 10y sleepess night
to be fully convinced Of the serious evils which
must follow systematic short allowance of
sleep.
We heard one of tho greatest the illogical
minds of the century advise that time should
not be wasted, that students should carry
some book in their pocket which they could
take out and read, when waiting at an ap
poinlment. or for sitting down to dinner
when Others were collecting, that even if but
a halt dozen lines were read, il was that mucl
time saved. He bclivel in hi. theory, put
in practice, died early, =
The brain must have rest; sleep is the best
rest
Let parents who do not want their chill
dren to die OF water on the brain. allow them
to have the fullest amount of undi,turbed
sleep, especially while at school.
The more sick people can sleep the sooner
will they get well Sleeping in tho day time
if before noon, enables them to sleep better
the 'oIlowiHg night. Students, women and
nervous persons need all the sleep they can
get, rs ID the melancholy and those that are
in trouble. Early rising is not condemned.
1t is heartily commended. But if not pre-.
ceeded by an early retiring, it is crime a.
gaiust the body.
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