The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-03-28

electIon was a new departure. His
supporters are more numerous to. day
than they were ten days ago; but
they are not the same supporters.
He has losl, but he has gained more
than be has lost.
Some Queer Freaks Of Sleep walkers.
Sleep-talking Is one .of the most
marvellous euriosities Of sleep. It Is
sometimes connected with somnam-
Ebulisin, but more frequently mani
tested alone, and often speaking to q
sornnambaiist at once awskens him,
diid, ri i " II 2 6;Rilods position, results
fatally. DR. Binns tells of young
man, aged IS, of robus. constitution.
who went to Syria from a town on
the Black Sea to pursue his studies at
the gymnasium. After falling asleep
he would arise and utter most re-
markable deClamations. Sometimes
he recited long speeches from Keno
phon with perfect accurancy, though
when awake he could only remem-
ber few lines. One night he wrote
the theme he had to deliver the next
day. In the morning having over
slept himself, he was yexed at not
having prepared himself for his tutor
and wondered much when he discov.
cred the theme completed and lying
on the table before him.
The Archbishop of Bordeaux speaks
of subject who asked for a glass of
brandy to warm him. AS there was
none at hand they gave him water,
nut he at once detected the cheat and
again demanded brandy. He was
given glass of strong liquor, SEEM
ed refreshed, and lay down without
waking. There is a remarkable case
related of a young American lady
who preached during her sleep, per-
forming regularly every part of the
Presbyterian service from the psalm
to the benedictiOn. She was the
daughter of respectable and wealthy
parents. She fell into bad health
and under its influence disturbed
her family by her noctural eloquence.
Her unhappy parents, at first sur
prised and perhaps f1attered by the
exhibition of so extraordinary a gift
in their family, finally concluded it
was the result of a disease, and think
ing change of scene would improve
her, visited New York and other
great cities of the Union. She would
preach at night on board steamboats,;
and at tea parties she was put into a
room in order that the guests could
witness her extraordinary perform
ances. Her sermons, although they
had the appearance of connected dis
courses, consisted principally of a
jumble of texts.
Darwin relates a most wonderful
case ofsomnambulism and sleep-talk-
ing combined. 1t was that of a
young lady about seventeen. who
suddenly became seized with convul-
sions of all the muscles of her body,
then she made great efforts to yomit,
violent hiccoughs, and in about an
hour she was seized with violent
spasm. In haitian hour these ceased
and the sleep suddenly began, and
was observable from the look of her
eyes which were all attention. Then
she talked aloud with imaginary
persons with her eyes open, and
could be brought to attend to the
stimulus of external objects by any
kind of violence it was possible to
use. These symptoms returned eve-
ry day for six weeks. The conYersa-
tions were consistent, and the hear
ers could understand what she sup
posed her imaginary companions had
answered. Sometimes she was
angry, again witty and vivacious,
but most often inclined to melancho-
ly. She sang some music accurately
and quoted from the English poets.
Once, trying TO repeat some lines
from Pope, she forgot word, and
began again when she came to the
word it was shouted in her ear, and
this to no purpose. Finally she rec.
objected il herself. When she recoy.
cred she appeared to be greatly sur.
prised, and called upon her sisters as
if in great fear. Finally she got sc
she could walk around the room
when in one of these sleep-talKins
poroxysms without touching any o
the furniture, though her steps were
tottering and wavering. And after
wards she drank dish of tea, whel
the whole apparatus of the tea-tablC
was set before her, and said there
was medicine in it. Once she smell
of a tuberose that was in her room
and talked aloud about breaking il
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