Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-08-09

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door till he went to sleep. was once told
when on saloon inspection, that certain
miller could sleep so long as the continued
whirr of the mill wheel was going on, but di
rectly after the noise stopped he awoke:
The deepest sleep is always just before
dawn. 1t is, I believe, probable that come
change takes place at that time in the atmos
pheric condition, as the hour just before dawn
is selected by savages to make their attack,
and it is at this time also, believe, that q
great portion of children are born. When
staying at country home, unfortunately, the
visitor not accustomed to country sounds, gets
often woke up. The abominable cocks begin
their horrible growing, called in Herefordshire
"cock shoot" I recollect, on one occasion,
after the wretched cocks had gone from the
fowl-house to feed, feel asleep, and then
came most awful cry of agony; in fact, the
farmer killed a pig under my window; enough
to wake anybody. The pig was most vocifer-
GUS, but as he was inundated in honor Of my
arrival, could not say much.
My monkeys always get sleepy when the
gas is lighted in my study, and where l and
my monkeys always sit. This room was once
called by the servants the masters room !"
but found out lately, by accident, that they
now call it the monkeys room" This is
Darwin going backward
Dogs, likewise, will sleep at night if they
can cats, observe, are sleepy in the morn
ing, the reason being that the wretches have
been out all night, and, of course, feel very
seedy in the morning, and doubtless their head
aches sometimes, and it serves them right if
they do, considering the row they make fight
ing and caterwauling. have strong reasons
to think that my own black cat is president Of
free.and.easy club, for they hold their meet
ings among the ruins of the Colosseum at the
back of my house. This is regular "catte-
ry." All the stray cats in Regents Park and
the neighborhood come here to arrange family
matters sometimes they come into back
cellar, where keep skeletons, casts, &C., and
kindly supply me with q lot of kittens, which
I convert into skeletons, casts, &c. l confess
do not know how to get rid of caterwauling
cats. Will any one tell US?
Inow venture to suggest new but simple
remedy for want of sleep. Opiates in any
form, even the liquor opii sedat. and chloro-
lOTIu, Will ledSe IIoCes VI Iuoli Inuu0nSo tho
next morning. I therefore prescribe for my
self-and have frequently done so for others
onions simply common onions raw, but Span
ish onions stewed will do. Everybody knows
the taste of onions this is due to peculiar
essential oil contained in this most valuable
and healthy root. This oil has, am sure,
highly sophori6c powers. In my own case
they never fail. If I am much pressed with
work, and feel I shall not sleep, l eat two
or three small onions, and the effect is magi.
cal. Onions are also excellent things to eat
when much exposed to intense cold. Mr.
Parnaby, Troutdale Fishery Keswick, in
forms me that when collecting salmon and
trout eggs in the winter, he finds that com.
mon raw onions enable him and bis men to
bear the ice and cold of the semi-frozen water
much better than spirits, beer, &c. The Arc
tic expedition just now about to start should,
therefore, take good stock of onions. FL
nally, if person cannot sleep, it is because
the blood is in the brain, not in his stomach.
The remedy. therefore. ia ohyions.- Call the
blood down from the brain to the stomach.
This is to be done by eating biscuit, hard
boiled egg, bit of bread and cheese. or some
thing. Follow this up with glass of wine or
milk, or even water, and you will fall to sleep,
and will, I trust, bless the name of the writer.