Waterbury Democrat., 1900-11-10
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SLEEP.

"Sleep, oh gentle sleep, how have 1 frightened thee?" asks the distracted king ill Shakespeare'S play Of Henry 14,' and it is q question which thOus- andS of weary mortals both before and after that Soyereign's time have been in the habit of framing, though no all SWer has been forthcoming. That sey- eIal ingenious persons have, however, solved the problem of inducing sleep the following peculiar methods of cOuntefacting insomauia will clearly demonstrate:
 His imperial majesty the Shah of l Persia was q martyr to insOmania for long time until, i'll a happy moment of inspiration, one of the court physi- clans hit upon the extraordinary n0- tiOn Of batting the autocrat on the arms and back until sleep weighed down his eyelids. So admirable was this specific found to be that it was Immediately adopted by the Shah, and it is stated that the suite which ac cOmp2nied him to Europe contained, l among other functionaries, two pat | ters." whose sole occupation took the | form of helping to send their master into the realms of the drOWsy Nor Dheus.
 At the Paris exposition there is | shown the model of cave once occu- | pied by the famous Greek brigand, | who was in the habit of being sent to sleep by the dropping of gold from the | roof of the cave on a carpet beneath. The gold thus dropped represented some of the booty that he had acquir- ed from passing travellers, and so dear | had the sound of coin become to him that nothing but it's chink upon the ground would s0othe his eyelids to sleep. Of all queer methods of in ducing drowsiness the foregoing would certainly seem to be the cheap est.
 4 gentleman who resided for many years in the town of Worcester was unable to drop off to sleep unless half 8 dozen peaches were placed under his pillow, as he ayerred that the per | fuINe of the fruit brought with it a certain degree of drOwRiness.
 Somewhat similar to the device of this worthy was the plan of q Parisian merchant whose only remedy for sleeplessness was the insertion be- meath his pillow of a sachet of layen- der, the smell of which. he declared, would send him to sleep in less than five minutes
 Very peculiar was the following: A middle aged engineer who had lived for many years close to the be9ch for seaside town had grown so accus- toned to the lullaby of the waves that when business took him to Manchester, where he was thencefoc-varG com pelled to live, he found that the ab- sence of the sea murmurs robbed him of sleep. He therefore fitted up in his 1 bed-chamber an apparatus which was so constructed that the sound of the waves as they broke upon the shore
 was most cleverly initiated. Aided by this fictitious appliance the engi- neer was enabled to sleep perfectly. and the apparatus continued in con- stant use until the day of his death, some years later.
 In some Oriental climes the natives who find themselves unable to sleep | by natural means prevail upon their | friends to administer to them very sound hoggings with bamboo canes. The pain thus sustained is supposed by the natives is question to induce q sensation of drowsiness, followed by | sleep. All the same, there are few in somnia patients in this country who would resort to so drastic measure for curing their complaint.-London | Tit-Bits.