The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-07-17

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the rest of the peal already hung. The
clapper weighs about sixteen cwt., and
it is calculated that it will take thirty
pairs of hands to use it.
sleep, aud How to Woo 1t.
Fcom the n. Y. Graphic
An article by Mr.. Frank auckland
which recently appeared in Land and
Water, has naturally excited good
deal of attention, since it gave express
sion to some very decided views IN re-
gard to subject which always has been
and always will be of interest to man.
kind-sleep, that mental death from
which m1n is born anew in mind and
body-the true fountain of youth which
Ponce de Leon sought in Florida and
found in his bed. Mr.. Buckland is the
son of the celebrated DIR. VIM. Buck
land, who gave the first great impulse
to the study of geology in England, and
whose Bridgewater treatise on ace
ology and Minerology Considered with
re erence to Natural Theology" has,
with general readers, always been the
most popular of the series. Mr. Buck
land runs counter to generally received
opinion in reference to sleep, by telling
the story of how his father worked,
who, being exceedingly busy during the
day, dined heartily at seven o'clock in
the evening and Immediately went to
bed and slept till about ten, when he
rose and wrote till two or three in the
morning. Before retiring for the Sec
ond time he ate a pudding or q sand
wich, and having thus ''diverted the
blood from his brain to his stomach"
slept the sleep of the orthodox till he
felt like getting up in the later morning.
Undoubtedly it is the generally received
opinion laid down as a doctrine in works
on hygiene that sleep should be sought
on a nearly empty stomach, and that to
yield to the gentle god Immediately after
discussing hearty meal leads to disar-
raugements of the liver and stomach,
and produces distinct tendency to
apoplexy.
There is hardly subject of the
regime of life which has attracted more
discussion than the overcoming of in
somnia. Aud this is as it should be,
ness is a curse such as life has few to
offer. Doctors tell us that if long pro-
tracted it leads to mental disorder, OF
which also it is not infrequently one OF
the earliest symptoms. The old books
of medicine are full of remedies for it,
and quaint old Burton, in his "Anato-
my of Melancholy" much doth talk
| thereon, and sensibly saith "Andrew
Rorde commendetb frications," but fol
| his own part he finds nothing more
eff cacious than a toast and ale, or a
| posset of the same" That there is 9
great deal of truth in this remark as ap-
| piled to persons of a full but nervous
habit, who have much brain-work to do,
| there is no doubt. In winter ale will
| produce a fine sense of fullness in the
stomach, and if it be not partaken of in
| quantities which would have satisfied
| and did kill King John, it doubtless
does employ the blood in a healthier
| work than it finds in running through
the overwrought alleys of the brain and
| filing them with fantastic thoughts and
| forms. One of our most eminent ply
| sicians has lately expressed his views on
this point, and finds in lager beer 9
stuff which will
| 50 Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow,
Raze ont the written troubles of the brain
And with some sweet, oblivious aItedote
Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous
stuff
| Which weighs upon the heart"
and prevents sleep, the oblivious an
tidote' of all ills to the healthy brain,
but the provoker of all fantastic demons
and Nightmares if it is but light and
partial. Mr.. auckland tells of the way
in which the late DR.. Wilberforce,
bishop of Oxford, and almost as well
known by the name of "Soapy Sam,
used to soothe himself to slumber when
he did not easily fall off to sleep. The
bishops prescription was to repeat very
slowly the vowels A, E, I, o. In doing
this he pronounced each letter family
with each inspiration and expiration,
aud seldom found the prescription to
fail. OF such methods there are le-
| gion. One says that, when sleep will
not visit our eyes nor slumber our eye
lids, we should fix our minds on some.
thing vast, as the sky, the ocean, our
landlady's bill, or the pyramids an
other says that we should think of q
succession of rhythmical movements,
like the breaking of the waves on sea
| beach another that we should endeavor
| to think of nothing; another that we
| should take cold bath, or battle the
| feet in cold water and rub them briskly
and un oubtedly this is an excellent
remedial measure when, as is very often
| the case at such times, the extremities
are cold. But each person has his own
| recipe in this matter. When one can
not sleep, generally speaking, he will
| do well to get out of bed and read
sleepiness is often natures protest
against idIeness and sluggishness OF
mind.
Mr.. auckland would have us go to
sleep Immediately after the chief meal
of the day; but who has not noticed
| that when he has done SO his sleep,
| though profound, is not refreshing, and
| that he wakes with bad taste in his
mouth, and very likely dull headache
which does not soon disappear? If a
person who has worked hard with his
brain all day has some work which must
be done at night, it is well for him to
eat lightly, sleep for three hours, then
eat again lightly, and go to work.
People in the ordinary avocations of
life often find their bodies weary when
their minds are wide awake. To soothe
both to sleep they should lie down and
read till their eyes grow dim and the
letters are vague; then they will soon
drop off. Mr.. Buckland's recommends
ton of the onion as sedative, is by no
means a new, though it is an excellent
one but celery is more agreeable and
will answer the same purpose. But in
and long bank account. soft, cool pill
lows, and light covering are the best of
all soporifics, as they are the pleasant
est.-N. Y. Graphic.
Chinese Money Brokers'.
A San Francisco paper says that the
manufacture by Chinese in that city of
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