The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-04-20
WHAT DREAMS MEAN.
London Argosy.

London Argosy.
 From time immemorial dreams have been the wonderland of waking hours Hope and fear have wrought them into their own fabric. Superstition has seized upon them and worked up a curious ritual of "dreams that go by contrares" of dreams of the morning light" of dreams with signiicances some of which seem natural enough, while to & few of those apparently most arbitrary, science herself has offered a certain amount of explanation.
 Dreaming is an experience which may be called common to humanity, though it varies SO widely in different individuals that in & few exceptional cases it is absolutely unknown. Certainly dreams often made of materials very inadequate to their finished results. Abercrombie relates that during an alarm of a French invasion in Edin- burgh 1t had been arranged that the first intima- tion of the enemys approach was to be the firing of gun from the castle.
 certain gentleman, 6 jealous volunteer retired to bed, dreamed that he heard this gun, went out and witnessed and joined in the proceedings of the troops At this juncture he was awakened by his wife in great fright, she having had a similar dream. 1t was ascertained that the falling of & pair of tongs in an upper chamber was the common origin of the dream in two minds already predis- posed to the same line of fancy. Another instance is given of person sleeping in room where a fatiron was allowed to scorch & woolen garment The sleeper dreamed that the house was burned down and that she could not escape because all her clothes were destroyed.
 A gentleman, who, before retiring to sleep, had been reading book of picturesque travels, dreamed that he was journeying across the Rocky Mountains He was attacked by two Mexicans, and after & gallant fight was taken prisoner. His captors believed him to be the possessor of secret treasure and in order to make him reveal it's whereabouts put him to the torture of stripping his feet and holding them to a fire.
 Waking with cry of agony, he discovered that his hot-water bottle had escaped from its flannel swathings and that the undue heat of his toes had conjured up all the rest of the tragic story.
 French physiologist caused many curious experiments to be made on himself during sleep These experiments took the form of trifing physi- cal sensations, which produced almost invariably wonderful exaggerated effect on the sleeping mind.
 Thus feather tickling the lips was converted into the horrible punishment of a mask of pitch being applied to the face. A bottle ot eau de cologne held to the nose sent him into dream of perfumer's shop in Cairo. A pinch on the neck recalled the days of his boyhood and the old family physician applying blister to that region.
 One authority declared that in 8 dream he made & voyage to India, spending several days in Cal cutta, continued his journey to Egypt visited the cataracts and pyramids, and held confidential interviews with Mahomet Ali, Cleopatra and Saladin the whole journey apparently occupying several months, but he had slept only an hour.
 Scientific writers admit that there is 6 type of dream in which corning physical disease disaster is shadowed forth-some bodily sensation, perhaps too slight to be noticed by the subject when awake yet contriving to impress itself in some symbolic form on the sleeping lnind. The more striking instances of this sort may serve to explain how in some lesser degree certain symbols are likely to attach themselves to certain painful sensations conditions until at last they are finally accepted as mysterious passages of evil.
 Conrad Gesner, the eminent naturalist, dreamed