The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1885-02-13

HOW tom" ocHILTREE SLEEPS
After Speaking Of Himself. He Mentions
Other Noted Sleepers.

Aner speaking Of Himself, He Mentions
Other Noted S1eepers.
Washington Cor. Baltimore Heraidl
The noted Texas congressman, Col
Thomas Ochiltree, sat In an easy chair al
Chamberlain's discussing the great political
topics Of the day. II see," said he. athat
Representative Hewitt cannot sleep on &C
count Of the barking of dogs, and that he
will introduce q bill TO abate such nuisances.
hardly know how to sympathize with the
distinguished gentleman from New York,
for all the dogs In Christendom, and Con-
stantiDople as well, couldn't keep me awake
1 wanted to sleep Why, sir, at the siege
OF Petersburg slept soundly for eight hours
right under the carriage Of q forty pound gun
that was being fired every FIVE minutes.
Yes, sir, and the gunner said that snored 20
loudly be could scarcely hear ths orders that
were given him between the shots. Why,
sir, on one occasion when was travelling
through Gaudaloupe county, Texas, stopped
In piece Of thick woods ut dark, staked my
horse, built fire, and lay down. That's q
bad wolf country, and by 10 o'clock there
were 1900 Of the savage devils bowling
around me, within fifty feet of my campfire.
Ispread my blanket on the grass, fixed my
saddle for pillow, and laid down with Q
navy revolver in each hand In two minutes
was asleep When woke next morning
the sun was high in the heavens. A neigh
boring ranchero told me that the wolves had
howled till daylight Sixty Of them were
found dead In the bushes They had died
from prolonged bowling, while had slum-
bered gently, like babe, on the breast Of
my mother earth Think Of that, and Of a
congressman whose Nightmares are inter-
rupted by the midnight winnings of a green
grocer's dog.
3Why, Tom Benton used to sleep so long
that hotel keepers had to break In his door
to see IL he wasn't dead Ben Butler can't
ride In street car without doing. In q
flying ride down the Shenandoah valley
Stonewall jackson, strapped to q saddle,
slept for six hours with his horse at a sweep
ing gallop a courier holding the guide-rein.
Napoleon snatched slumber for the moment
as his cavalry thunderei by within few
feet Of him, at Austerlitz Yet here Ia a
lordly statesman who can not even enjoy q
cat-nap because q sad and lonely cur around
the next corner crawls out Of his kennel and
bays the moon.
Gentlemen, have driven an OK wagon
from Sabine pass to III Paso have ridden
q steer from Caddo lake TO Bagdad, and l
have ridden and led a mule from the San
Jacinto to the Cibola. have slept in the
eternal pine forests Of eastern Texas, with
the deadly tarantulas crawling all over me
and rattlesnakes Kissing in my ear, but IL
have ever lost fifteen minutes sleep since /
quit teething, then, by the eternal horned
frog Of Texas, don't know it'll
why, gentlemen, there Is not capital in
all Europe in whichI am not famed as
sound sleeper. On my last visit to Paree, my
friend, the Count de Lafayette, with some
associates, got up device to break my
slumber. They rugged up an automatic
sheet-iron cat and placed it on my window
sill at the Hotel de Vendome, where it
yowled and scratched at the window-pane
for hours. Well, sir, what do you suppooei
/ hope that Santa Anna may rise up and
make conquest OF Texas IL that sheet-iron
cat didn't get SO disguised by midnight that
1t jumped from the window to the ground,
ran around the corner, and has never been
heard Of since"