Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1889-05-16
Ne,c Virtue fn Peanuts.

ONutr udtc OF hoiSlgus MdIch ~, heN.
DR.. Theodore B. Lyman, Episcopal Bish-
op of North Carolina, has written the fol-
lowing letter to the Raleigh Daily Nsrs
end Courier:
81 think have made very valuable
discovery, and am anxious that Others
should enjoy the benefit Of it. For near
ly two years | have been suffering greatly
from not being able to sleep more than
one or two hours during the night. |
have tried Il great number of proposed
remedies, some of which have helped me
a little, but not for any length of time.
A little more than fortnight ago, while
staying at the house of friend in the
country, my good hostess brought into the
parlor, quite late in the evening, boun-
tifu supply of freshly roasted peanuts.
As am very fond Of them, when they
are not too much cooked, | ate quite free
ly of them, and soon after retired to bed.
l found the next morning that had en-
ioyed the best sleep had experienced for
over month. | attributed this at once
to the peanuts, and determined TO try
them again the following evening. / did
so, and also drank a glass of fresh, sweet
milk after | had finished the peanuts.
That night | slept still better, and since,
have partaken of the peanuts and
milk every night, and have not only slept
remarkably well, but have also fully re-
covered from a slight attack of indiges-
ton which had troubled me before.
now find that peanuts, carefully roasted
aud not overdone, so rs to be at all burnt,
are surely a remedy for sleeplessness and
also for that form of indigestion which is
oneofthe producing causes Of sleeplessness.
The Raleigh Christian Adrocate thinks
the Bishop Of North Carolina has immor-
talized either himself or the peanut-or
BOTH We hope this pastoral production,
promulgated by the Protestant prelate,
will promote in proper places more pro-
life production of pleasant, palatable
and properly parched peanuts.
II is purposed on The Srd and 4th Of July
to celebrate the semi-centennial Of the Vir.
ginia Military Institute at Lexington. That
it will be fittingly commemorated will not
be questioned. 1t is therefore earnestly
! hoped that every matriculate now living
will strenuously cndeayor to lend his pres
ence to the interesting occasion, and partici-
pate in the jubilee that, it is believed, will
mlrk n memorable epoch in the history of
an institution famous both in war and in
peace. For half century, amid such yicis-
STUDIES as rarely befal an institution Of
learning, the Virginia Military Institute has
unlaterngly prosecuted her glorious mis-
sion, difusing all the while rich blessing
upon Virginia and her sister States in the
practical education she has bestowed upon
so many Of their sons. And now with ma
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her splendid past and full Of hope for her
future, she stands more earnest than ever to
confer the blessings Of her distinctive sys.
tenn upon the youth Of our land. But she
yearns for the loving sympathy and practi-
cal support Of her sons; she is eager for
their presence once more at the old hearth
stone, that, face to face and heart to heart,
she may commune with and take counsel Of
them, and thus become strengthened and
encouraged as she enters upon the second
half Of her century's history. She, there
fore, through her Society Of Alumni, affec-
tiouately calls upon all her sons, widely
scattered though they be, TO come back to
the old home on this joyous occasion, and
bask again amid the ever-halowed scenes
of the Aud Lang Syne."
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