Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-08-23
HABIT OF SLEEP WALKING.

HABIT OF SbEDI-WA Ing.
According to scientists there are
four kinds of somnambulism.
/. Those who talk while sleeping,
but do not walk or otherwise act.
2 Those who walk or otherwise
act while sleeping, but do not talk.
g. Those who botn act and talk
while sleeping.
T.. Those who act and talk and have
the senses of touch. sight and hear
ing and it is alleged, in some in
stances, the senses of taste and smell.
This fourth kind is never found eX-
cept when induced by mesmeric or
hypnotic influences.
1t is of the third kind that there are
most queer developments, Independent
of voluntary external influences.
Often tho somnambuliSt will rise in
the night and walk through the vari
Gus rooms OF the house, so out on
pOrticos and, in some eases, on steep
roofs, where he would not dare to 90
when awake; frequently he will leave
the house and walk through street or
field and will return and go to bed
without knowledge of anything hay
ing TRANSFERRED. The celebrated French
physician, Bernhcim, tells in his work
on Suggestive Therapeutics" of a
photographer OF his acquaintance, who
rose In the night and finished the
work on which he had been engaged
during the previous day and was as
tonishcd on finding 1t finished when
he went to work on the following
morning. Painters hive been known
to do superior work while asleep and
essays have been written and poems
composed IN the same way.
"A young COUNT ymau related an in
cident occurring In his own family.
His brother was slecpwalker, and
also fond of fishing. For a number of
nights in succession he would get up
and 80 down through n long meadow
to II creek and seize the root of Il wal
nut tree growing on the bank and pull
and tug with all his might, and ut the
same time calling for the hired man
to help him land Il big fish II had
heard" said his brother, that 1t
would break II sleepwakcr of the
habit to wake him suddenly when he
was out rambling about. and | decided
to try its efficacy on my brother. One
night | followed him when he left the
house AS | passed by the wood yard,
| picked up the AK, and when we got
to the creek and he began Juggling ut
his imaginary fish, | cut the root and
let him fall backward into about two
feet OF not very warm water. lie
came out Il badly diSorgani2ed and
somewhat frightened boy. have
never heard of him going fishing or
, otherwise walking In his sleep since
, his durldng,"
Sometimes slccpwalkcrS 80 over
places where they would not dare &c
i when awake, and the fact that such
4 things are frequently done with safety
has led many to believe that they
never hurt themselves. Ordinarily thai
may be true, but there Is ut least ont
/ authentic record of one death resulting
in that way, The slcepwallcr walked
, OIL OF a high portico and died trou
the fall
one OF the most singular, at the
same time, sad cases of sl"epwalkins
occurred near Baskerville, y. c., few
years ago a young man by the nam,
OF Garland had been slecpwalkel
from childhood. His ramblings hal
\ always ended without harm to himself
or others, and for that reason his wifi,
usually paid little attention to his
nocturnal oCcrutrieities. But new
phase presented itself when he began
to stay away longer at time and al
ways return "wringing wet" as tn,
waSherwomen say. His wife deter
mined to follow him and explore thu
mystery. When he left the house h,
followed the road to Tow river an,
then took rough, narrow pig trail
leading up the river. He picked hi
way through the tangled hemlock an,
laurel and over stones and fallen tree
and along the SUBMITS OF precipitou
cliffs His wife kept in sight b.
means or the moonlight waverini
through the trees For more than