Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-10-05
ABOUT DREAMS.


A French physician, DR.. Delaunay, has just
told some facts about dreams. These are en-
bodied in a communication to the SOciete De
Biologic of Paris. 1t is well known when
person is lying down the blood flows most east
ly to the brain. This is why some of the an
cient philosophers worked out their thoughts
in bed. Certain modern thinkers have imita-
ted this queer method Of industry. During
sleep, so long as the head is laid low, dreams
take place of coherent thoughts. There are,
however, different sorts of dreams, and Dr.
Delaunay's purpose in his original commune
cation is to show that the manner OF lying
brings on a particular manner of dreams.
Thus, according to this investigator, uneasy
and disagreeable dreams accompany lying upon
the back. This fact is explained by the con-
nectiOn which is known to exist between the
organs of sensation and the posteror part OF
the brain. The most general method or lying,
perhaps is on the right side; and this appears
to be also the most natural method, for many
persons object to lying upon the side OF the
heart which it has been more than once as
serted, should have free action during sleep.
Nevertheless, DR.. Delaunay's statements hard
ly harmoniZe with this opinion. When one
sleeps upon the right side, that is to say, upon
the right side of the brain, ones dreams have
marked and rather unpleasant characteristics
These characteristics, however, are essentially
those which enter into the popular definition
of dreams. Ones dreams are then apt to be
illogical, absurd childish, uncertain, incohe-
rent, full of vivacity and exaggeration. The
dreams which come from sleeping on the right
side are, in short, simple deceptlOns. Ihey
bring to the mind very old and faint remem-
brances, and they are often accompanied by
nightmares. DR.. Delaunay points out that
o1o fror rVthmlcal
language while they are lying on the right side;
this verse, though at times correct enough, IS
absolutely without sense. The moral tacul-
ties are then at work, but the intellectual fac
ulties are absent. On the other hand, when
person slumbers on his left brain, his dreams
are not only less absurd, but may also be IN
telligent They are, as rule, concerned with
recent things, not with "reminiscences. AND,
since the faculty of articulated language is
found on the left side, the words uttered du-
ring such dreams are frequently comprehen-
sible.
EGYPT AND THE NILE-According to Mr..
John Fowler, for seven years consulting En-
gineer to the Egyptian Government, the Nile
in an average year conveys no less than l,O0O,-
600, ,0O0, 900 tons of water, and 65,00O, ,OOO tons
of silica, alumina, lime and other fertiliZng
soils down to the Mediterranean. The river
begins to rise about the middle of June, at
which time the discharge averages about 3o0
tons of water per second, and attalns IN Sep
tember height of from 10 feet to 2S feet,
and discharge of from 1000 to 10000 tons
per second. The cultivated lands in the PROV
nces of Lower Egypt haye al area OF 3, ,0OO,-
600 acres, and to irrigate this etfectually at
least 30,000,000 tons of water per day would
be required. an amount somewhat exceeding
the whole of the Low Nile discharge. At
present the irrigation canals are totally made
quate to convey this quantity, and imperfect
irrigation and consequent low state OF crops are
the result 1t many instances couple or
men labor for a hundred days in watering by
shadoof single acre of ground, all OF which
amount of labor might be dispensed with II the
barrage Of the Nile were completed, and a 1eW
other works carried ont, the whole OF which
would be paid for handsomely by slight wa
ter rate acre. Mr.. Fowler does not think that
the resources of Egypt have been fully devel-
oped, magnificent as they even now are, haV-
ing reference to the size of the country.
Except for the work of man, Lower Egypt
for four months in the year would be simply
the bed of a river, and for the remaining
months a mud bank. Long before the his
toric period however, the Nile had been EN-
banked, and canals, such as the Bahr-Jusef,
had been formed the first was to keep the
floods off the land, except in desired quantl-
ties and the second to run off the inunda-
tion waters as soon as the fertilizing matters
in suspension had been deposited on the lands.
Should the inhabitants of Egypt neglect at
any time to maintain the work of their ances-
tors, successive floods would quickly destroy
the embankments and wash the light material
into the canals. Thus the whole surface of
the country would again be leveled, and the
land of Egypt would revert to it's primitive
condition of being a rivers bed for one third
of the year and probably malarious swamp
for the remainder.
gT The girl raised with no profession or trade
feels that unless she catches husband while
her young beauty lasts, she will be an old mad
and failure. The way to give her 1alr
chance is to give her a larger life, and let ner
feel that, though good marriage may ne the
highest estate of woman, bad one IS her
greatest curse, and that she need not marry
fora home. If the gentlemen who 60 about
marrying two or three wives year, had wo-
men of this kind to deal with, it would be bet
ter for them and society.