, 1885-02-19

other Noted sieepcrz-
Waahingion Cor Baltimore "A sgald
Tha no.ei Texas congrrssllan. Sol
Thomas Ochiltrse, sat In an easy chair nj
Chamborlain's discussing the great political
topics OF tho day. Il zee.7 said he, that
Representative Hewitt cannot sleep on nc
count Of the barking Of dogs, and that h,
will introduce a bill to abats such nuisaneos
I hardly know how to sympathize with the
distinguished gentleman from New YORK,
for all the dogs In c~hristendom, nnd Con
stAntinopls as well. couldn't keep me awake
IL ] wanted 10 sleep Why, sir. at tho siege
OF Petersburg / slept soundly for eight hour,
right under the carriage Of a forty-poundg gun
that was being fired every Ave minute4
Yes. sir. and the gupner said that l snorod 50
foudiy he could scarcely bear the orders that
were given him between tho shots. Why,
sif, on ons occasion when ! was travelling
through Gandaloups county. Texas. Istopped
In a piece OF thick woods at dark, staked my
horse. built a fire, and lay down That's a
bad wolf country, and by 10 O'Clock there
were 1000 Of the avage devils bowling
around me, within fifty feet Of my campfire.
! spread my blanket on the grass. fxsd my
saddle for a pillow, and laid dowi with a
navy revolver in each hand. In two minutes
l was asleep When l woke next morning
AA| NAA WAa Tx a.. ~ . 3AA& A|AAn~
boring ranchero told me that the wolves had
howled TIL daylight Sixty Of them were
found dead in the bushes. They had died
from prolonged bowling, while had slum-
bered gently, like a babe, on the breast OF
my mother earth. Think Of that, and of a
Congressman whoss nightmares are inter
rupted by the midnight winnings Of a green
grocer's dog.
HWhy, Tom Benton used to sleep 70 long
that hotel keepers had to break In his door
10 see IL he wasn't dead. Ben Butler can't
ride In q street car without DOING. In a
flying ride down tho Shenandoah valley
Stonewall Jackson, strapped to a saddle,
slept for SIX hours with his horse at a sweep
Ing gallop, a courier holding the guide-rein.
Napoleon snatched slumber for the momon
as his cavalry thunderei by within a few
feet OF him, at Austerlitz Yet here Is a
lordly statesman who can not even enjoy a
cat-nap because a sad and lonely cur around
the next corner crnwis out OF his kennel and
bays the moon
Gentlemen, l nave driven an ox-xagon
from Sabine pass to FL Paso. have ridden
a steer from Caddo lax 10 Bagdad, and l
have ridden and led a mule from the Sun
Jacinto To the Cibola- 1 hAvs slept In the
eternal rins forests OF eastern Toxins, with
the deadly tarantulas crawling all over me
and rattlesnakes kissing in my ear, but II I
have ever lost fifteen minutes sleep since /
quit ~teething. then, by the eternal horned
frog OF Texas, ! don't know i'll
-Why, gentlemen, there Is not a capital in
all Europe in whichI am not famed as a
sound sleeper. On my last visit 10 Paree, my
friend, The Count de Lafayette. with some
associates, got up a device to break my
slumbor. They rugged up an automatic
sheet-iron cat and placed il on my window
sill at the Hotel de Vendome, where it
yowled and scratched at the w~indow-pane
for hours. Well, sir, what do you supposed
! hope that Santa Anna may rise up and
make a conquest Of Texas IL that sheet-iro1
cat didn't get so diAgustsd by midnight tina
1t jumped from the window to the ground
ran around tho corner. and has never beef
heard Of since"