Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-07-11
TEN SLEEP WALKERS.
Some of the Things People Have Done i'm
Their SAUNDERS.
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Some of the Things People Have Done i'm
Their SAUNDERS.
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A gentleman was discovered about |
O'Clock in the morning in a neighbours gar
den engaged in prayer, evidently under the
impression that he was in church, but
otherwise in a deep sleep.
A young man-of whom Petrus writes
used to get up in his sleep, climb on to his
c1stle battlements, seat himself astride
them, and then spur and whip the wall,
under the impression that he was mounted
on his steed.
d.. Pritchard had patient who was par
ticularly fond of horse exercise and used to
rise ut night, find his way to the stable,
saddle his horse, enjoy gallop and finally
come back, knocking at his own front door,
in a sOmnambuliStic condition.
DIR. Macnish of Edinburgh gives an ac-
count of an Irish gentleman who swan
more than two miles down a river, got
ashore and was subsequently discovered
sleeping by the roadside altogether uncon-
ciouS of the extraordinary feat he had ac-
complished.
DR.. Haycock, the eminent Oxford divine,
would often rise from his bed at night give
out his text and, while sound asleep, deliv-
er an excellent sermon upon it, He was
frequently watched, but no amount of tug
ging, pulling or pinching ever succeeded in
arousing him.
! Professor 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 boil
sters at him, which he always eluded, jump
ing over bedsteads and other articles placed
in his way.
/ Moritz gives an instance of poor and
/ illiterate basket-maker who was unable to
read or write, yet in state of sleep-vigil
he would preach fluent sermons, which
were afterward recognized as having formed
portions of discouTses he was accOStumed TO
hear in the parish church as child more
than forty years before.
A young girl given to sleep talking was
| in the habit of initiating the violin with her
lips, giving the preliminary tuning and
scraping and furnishing with the utmost
! fidelity. 1t puzzled her physician a great
deal until he asceTtained that when an in
FAINT the girl lived in room adjoining a
fiddler, who often performed on that instru-
ment within her hearing
Not more than six years ago an unhappy
mechanic in Edinburgh was tried before the
| high court there for the murder of his own
child. 1t was proved that he arose from
his bed at night and, fast asleep, took the
/ infant from beside its mother and dashed it
| furiously against the wall. The evidence
showed that the wretched father was addict
ed to somnambulism, and his own explana-
| ton of the matter was that he dreamed he
was attacked and had struggled with his
assailant. OF course the man was acquitted.
The brother of Lord Culpepper in 1886
got up, saddled his favorite charger and
went for a ride in the park, being all the
time sound asleep. One of the sentries on
duty, being unware of the condition in
which the officer was, refused to allow him
Pass, whereupon the Hon. Culpepper drew
his pistol and deliberately shot the poor
man dead on the spot. When tried at the
Old Bailey for murder he pleaded somnam-
bulism, and, as it was proved that he was
addicted to the habit, and that he was
found to be asleep when arrested immedi-
ately after the tragedy, he was acquitted