Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-15
sLEEP-WALKERS.
Some of the Queer Things People Have Done in
Their SlumberS.

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Some of the Queer Things People Have Done in
Their Slumbers.
| A gentleman was discovered at O'Clock
in the morning in neighbours garden,
engaged in prayer, evidently under the
| impression that he was in church, but
otherwise in deep sleep.
| A young man-of whom Petrus writes
used to get up in his sleep, climb on his
castle battlements, seat himself astride
them, and then spur and whip the wall,
under the impression that he was mounted
upon his steed.
DR.. Prichard had a patient who was
particularly fond of horse exercise, and
used to rise at night, find his way to the
stable, saddle his horse, enjoy a gallop
and finally come back knocking at his
own front door, in a somnambuhstic con-
dition.
DIR. Macnish, of Edinburg, gives an ac-
count of an Irish gentleman who swan
more than two miles down the river, got
ashore, and was subsequently discovered
sleeping by roadside altogether I'M
conscious of the extraordinary feat he had
accomplished.
DR.. Haycock, the eminent Oxford di-
vine would often rise from his bed at
night, give out his text and, while sound
asleep, deliver an excellent sermon upon
it. He was frequently watched, but no
amount of Juggling, pulling or pinching
ever succeeded in rousing him.
Prof. Fishnell, of Basel, writes of a
young student of Wurtemburg college,
who used to play hide and-seek while fast
asleep. His fellow-students knew of his
propensity, and when he began walking
threw holsters at him, which he always
eluded, jumping over bedsteds and other
articles placed in his way.
Moritz gives an instance of poor and
lliterate basket-maker who was unable to
read or write, yet in a state of sleep-vigil
he would preach fluent sermons, which
were afterward recognized as having
formed portions of discourses he was &C
customed to hear in the parish church as
child more than forty years before.
Wouldn't Take the Engine Out in the Mud
Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph.
The special agent of an eastern insur-
ance company was in the city to-day, and
was giving some anecdotes of experiences
in various parts of Pennsylvania,
Il was in Tamaqua not long ago." said
the agent, and I was told that the town
had a new fre-engine, and had provided
a first class team and all the essentials of
a good department. The local insurance
men congratulated themselves on the ar
rival of the machine and on the prompt
service it would render in the future.
They asked me to go and see the engine,
and l went. Just as we got to the door
of the engine-house there was an alarm of
fire. We found the horses hitched and
the men standing around. The engineer
didn't seem to be in hurry to get out,
and after a few minutes said:
"'Wasn't that an alarm of fre?'
"I guess it was,' answered the engin-
eer.
"'Why don't you get out, then?'
"'Get out with this engine! Why, I
spe Mt three hours cleaning it up and shin
ing the brass yesterday, and you don't
suppose I'm such blame fool as to take
it out in all this mud, do your"
The fact that there are cells in the water
pipes in Bangor, Me-, leads to a new
swindle. man goes from house to house
offering small filters for sale. He asks
permission to fasten one to the water
pipe and let the water pass through it for
a few moments. When the filter is taken
off he always finds a little eel inside. Then
the housewife buys the filter.
A Peabody man employed in barber
shop had $40 confederate bill passed on
him the other day. He mistook it for q
silver certificate and gave the person Sc
in change.