The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-06-11
DISCOVERIES MADE BY MEANS OF
DREAMS.

y ccri'i0 ISN yer was SCI iOU~'N pc =
picked wi,h p complicated case. Ia he
night ais we saw hiu, get NJ, wa.A - Il
writirg-iable, compose an eta ocate
"op,n,od." pace 1t caIe,ul'. i'll ii q aver
ana ie,d Il 10 bed. Neat NO. mug he
remembered noih.ng OF MS cream, and
cou'u not believe IL until MS We gave
aim ocular ue,honsl atiuh OF thc fact -
DO:ntidg out the drawer Vice. tuc
'ooinion" lay comple,e.
Student add poets are Otten irGebted
10 ~ cams fOt tue brightest iueaS, and
the mal vclors composition d. the frag-
meDt "kuba khan," by Cole iuGe, will
occur 10 eve'y IeadeT. He SAYS be had
fallen asleep IN his Chair Wilde reading
in "PrIchas' Pilgi image of a palace
built by KAN hu0la, anu remained
asleep ahout IhIee hQuIs, DUNG which
time he could not have com oosed less
than 200 on 300 lines" The images lose
befu,e him as Things, rnd vita Them he
COZ. esponding exp essions, without aJY
sensation or CONSEQUENCES of eIo't.'
When he awol.e he Instantly sat down
to commit his composition 10 DaDe;', bul
was called away by pea son on business
and when he Ietpl ned 10 lesume the
poem il had ut,elly vanished from h.s
memory.
Languages long forgos'en, or AZ )s--
emily but Imperiecuy known in wrl ~.
lite, have been known so Iecur in Il. cams
and dcliium. Abe.coMbie relates sew
eral authcnticT led lstances of this sOt. :;
and the writer knew an asle Clergyman
who, when a boy, preached over ih his
sleep the sermon he mad last heard,
seemingly word lor woid, and it was no
uncommon occurrence for his Il lends 10
gather round his bedside 10 hear ais dis
course. But he WIS endowed with a
marvellous memory in his waking hours;
and ON one occasion, il is sS'iG, he leai n
ed three books of Euclid on his way
home from school.
Missing documents and forgotten
places are sometimes recovered in
dreams. Sir Walter Scott, Ia his notes
to the "Antiq uaUy," speaks OF gentle
man sorely troubled in ais mind becar5 C
he was pressed for tue payment Of some
1.-THE money which he Jeiieved was 20
Justly charged, and waic.I he hat' ii COZ
fused recollection of As having 5aeL
| bought out by his decc: set fether many
years ago. In his dtc3ms ne Thought
the shade of his father appeared 40 blm
| aud inquired the c. use ot his grieI.
| Not at all startled by the Rpparition he
| gTaVely stated the facts of the case. Tie
| shade told him he must seek out an q :
| LAWYER who had retired fiom proieS
al business and was now living ~
vcresk. He gave tie lawyers name,
remarked that the papers relating to
! purchase of the titIcs We're in his h.
] now, hut that, rs the tIans.,cti0n uau
CURED many years ago, and this vs.
only one in which the lawyer V 5 evt,
engaged GA his account, 1t would b.
necessary to call his Ie, objection by ais
token, that when went te pay his a {.
| count there WAS n difficulty ih get, n
change for a Portugal piece of gold, anu
we were forced to drink out the balance
nj tavern" On reaching InveIesk the
gentleman called upon Tue lawyer, who
could not remember the transaction till
the incident OF the Portugal coin was
mentioned, when it all REQUIRED TO his
memory. The oCuments were bonded
over TO him and carried 10 Edinbu gh &c
prove his case.