The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1868-09-30
sleep.

Thesneeessary ameuntof sleep .nsss.Sd
| differ in the various tribes, as wehs asg.s
| in different individuals, according to-.
numerous varied contingencies. g The
average proportion of time thug asmaaii
ployed by our race may be stated pret:r
ty fairly, think, at one third =, The,
allotment of Sir William Jones, slight
ly altered from an old English poet,
/ does not depart much from this stand 400
ard: - sa- t,, s,li iss1 IRi5aoa al
''seven hours to books. to soothing slum- ~
| Der seven; s-. tst'ts- 1SA
Ten to the world aIlot, and all to Heayenr,sls
The busy engagements of ambition
and avarice may induce men to subtract
more or less from their due repose, tbhtogaf
any considerable ededuetionmust bema6eg fis
at great risk to both mind aud bed5.,~5a
Sir John Sinclair, who slept eight hQutsE
| himself, says that, in his researches in
to tie subject Of longevity! he found i1A
long life under every circumstance lev3iaP
cry course of habit !; some old men SbesseIl
ing abstinent, some iDtemperate: ,somerot
active, and some indolent; !; but all had
slept well and long. Yet he gives a.
letter from a correspondent, recofdiHgh
the case of an old man of Iniuetyonei Il
who had slept through life but, FOUR
hours day Alfred the Great slept, \,
eight hours Jeremy Taylor but three. -
DIR. Gooch tells US of an in dividuaf' q
who slept only fifteen minutes inoshsissI
day 4: but9. this is scarcelynscredibiesPta
Bonaparte, during the. greater part, oftsa;
his active life, was content with four orts
five hours sleep; the same is said OF
Frederick the Great, and of John Hum got
ter. I know familiarly personsRhoseI: "a
average has been even lower than cthis;rUv
I have heard his wife say -that-they
we're married four years before she had
ever seen him asleep. Seneca is. grot4s
ed as telling the increditabies stofy 6fs
Mecenas, that he had passed three1
years without sleeping sIng'e hour.
Boerhave; says of himself that fheSiwas4
six weeks without sleep, from eintsnssoqg
and continued study. Statements ihkeyo7q
these demand close examination and 70
clear proof
: Ofiong p,rotracted sleep there are are ibTud!! 10
merous and wonderful italee; fremithenob
story of rhe Seven Sleepsrs of Ephesusigss
and their dog to be found in the early aid
legends of the Church,. in the Koran ~
chapter Of the Cave all over the East,
as Gibbon tells US; and even in Seandi. ioi
payia adownatos the exquisite Rip ,XanIlow
Winklel of oursawn . Washington sIrg4ids
ing In the Philosophical Irensqe: az
tons, we read Of one Samuel Clinton,
laboring man, who frequently slept pha
several weeks at "a time aud once more en3
than three months, without wakings-aG
In the Berlin Memoirs otfthesAcadebeNI
of Sciences, there is curious historyf1aez
of lady of Nismes, who fell asleep ir:L
resistably at sunrise, woke for brief "
interval at noon, fell asleep again, ana Do
continued in that ststate until seven soreeB
eight in the evening, when she.i aweke 10
and remained awake until the next f,,s
euurise.-ProE Dickson, Essay on =
Sleep. -"
ABs1NrnE. A medical man, TIi5}sscs
has been studying the different aleoholsi>di
ic drinks served to thirsty people, says:osb-
/" "Absirthe is prepared BY disabling
sprigs of absinthe, angelica root. ETC..
This mixture appears simple. You sH
have heard of Pfussic acid swhichY inssps
stantly kills any animal touched sbE Eit2aiss
Pour six drops of Prussic acid in a..
quart of water; take another basin and
pour six drops Of absinthe IN quart Of
water Throw into both tbasi6s1some sai
live ,fshes.oBT Those thrown into the tba-,a4oA
sin with absintbe will die four. times ;.
sooner than those thrown into the basin.
containing Prussic acid" 3s2-e'4rno!g eaL! Z
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