The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1880-10-05
CURIOUS sLEEPERS.
The Strange Doings OF Persons
Who Walk aud Act Unco:-
sciourly IN their
sleep.
wr.,.n i.r III. sunday Moru,n. E,a.o.

sleep
Written leg ~. sunday Morning E,4""-
SEpAliA, Mo. Oci. /.
EDITOR BAzoo In accordance with nv
,.,.,uIis- To yon. have her. written -ome
ls~morie- n TO >u;nnsmbuiisi., which may
he of Interest.
About three years ago The writer tOs.~ .
81 .rs friend To a - .-.dc town ia ord. Ia
Ell : pOaIa'- Vacation ANA bathing. The
,,uv-ior ne wa- only = boy 81 sixieen-
hsd been travelling by steamer, T.iiwsy or
stage from q o'clock on sunday evening TO
4 o. "a, vn Monday without Cessation, aud
mad slept scarcely ar not 81 all 'iuIine
IN. nights i,urn.y. We retired To rest .;
10 q. a =, my room osing next Ia hss-boih
being on the drawn. room aoo,. hsd
jus. lain doxB aud Was doy,.g otf 10 sleep,
when | heard = loud crash Ui g;.>s, toiio~-
ed by hv-t-ricsi cEi--. ~nicn secuted To
come from some prr-rh NJ The ioJl oi the
staircase leading To- the corridors, which
Opened on our respective he'd rooms Sn-h-
ing 10 the head o! tine stairs, ! demanded
Ia know what wss the matter, and with dill
6cui,y un.ier-iooi that -om. person hal
Jumped through liz. window. knO<suI
that INV friend was = sunnnsn'bni'-i, ! ~
once h.w To In. room, To lind the window
o,en. the led empty aud
THE BOY GONE.
Dressing my--ii hurrlsdly, descended the
Il aircsse and issued forth with the land
lord To look 60 nv friend. For some time,
no trace could We lied of him. but At last,
ON turning a corner al the road leading Ia
the cliffs, we beheld white figure. To st!
appearance utterly insnim ate, supported by
iwo sailors, who fortunately happened Ia
i've there AT the time. ! sopn recognized
INV friend, aud found that ] hsd reason Ia
lie alarmed. lie had been wounded. hut cu
getting him back, hi- wounds ~ere dressed
aud h. was NJ list able so tell the cause oil
al. well-n:gh fats! accident. On going o.
he'd, fatigue had caused him Ia TAIL into q
stale 81 -emi--leeP only, in which hs hsd
imagined hini-~if ia the centre oi large
ieid. Suddenly he thought he ss~ m IN
furi ,ted bull rush wildly st him ana
catching hold al q tree, n he t~l~ived
gre~ aside the hedge, he -~uHs him-el
over and
RAN FJR His LIFE.
In resiity, what he conceived to lie hedge
Was the window, which opened from th'
top, and which vas ~ the tune let down n
| low "a IL could go, while the seeming ire'
were the long " .iie hanging curtains which
stretched down the length oil t:.- window
! Having thus swuns himself down q, ih'
low-r--ilI, h~ t;,en j..my.-i cti-a bright %
only about 400 irei-.nd ran aioEg bare
fsDi-d ":. the cut -,"n--, which rSn-e'i III
~"an.i-. bI' watch G.: 1n.i h'D 10 bi- h''
, Tor fui:y a month si,rr~aIu. IL VA u
( jumping IRON the window that hs struck
the giss. si,n IN. heel, thus causing ia,
crash which s~oke me. Here WAS = Cas-
. in which So strong an impression had beri
/ 10 ade on the individus; A. Ia ensbie him Il
relate MS thoughts and iu,sg'.ations sh:l'
under the iufuen e IL sumnsmbuii.un.
: But c.-e- of opposite character have also
arisen, where the impressions we're oil -
. transient a nature - not az leave uPo'
memory the slightest recollection of any
thing that occurred.
A FEMALE SERVANT
: iu an eastern city .urv,i-ed the family al
io'clcck one morning BY walking down .
flight Of stairs in her sleep aud rarping a
her MISTRESS ted Room door. When asSss
whs; she wanted, she replied IN her u-us
voice th At she h al torn her dress. and hoppe
: her o,i-,re~. would fJrg,se her, and let hel
have some Cotton to mend 1t: at the s.m'
time bursting into tear. She then return
: ed Ia her room aud a light having heel
procured she WAS found cropping ior he
q. work box, from which she vas Offered ~
empty reel; bu; -he refused u {; AID tskin,
up her gown, she pointed To Two hole-
which she said she wanted 10 mend. IL
quiet her. her fellow servant threaded :
/ needle, bat with black cotton which .he
INDIGNANTLY REFUSED,
saying she wanted brown. Another perso'
then spoke, when -he immediately said
That IL my mistress" which was not the
c..e-ihas clearly -hosing that Ia this III
siarc. she did not di.c-rn the Voice. while
che could see the object briorr her, her eye
we're vide open. With some difficulty sh'
vas NJ last pur.ux,i,.i Ia lie down until ih'
ususi hour oi rising, those around heI
thinking that she might then awake ia he
accustomed manner. This failing in effect
her mi-,'--s went up TO her rom, AM
rather angrily ord. FED her In get up and q
TO work, ~ IL Ma now six O'Clock, ans
pointed 10 ,ae window 81 she spoke. Sh'
nov rs-e, and, seeing the cotton box dis
iurbed. che asked Why il hal been med
died xiih. IL the course al the day, sev
ersl questions wen. put TO her, in order 4
try her reccolsclion bat she hsd M re-
membran -ss whatever Of her sleep walk
ing, or 81 anything that had occurred dur
ing the previous night. !. L.
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