Year: 1873

that the most wakeful person viii find
it easy enough to go to sleep if he heeds
thewords of the scientific people, and
sets about the matter in such way that
" there shall be an accumulation in the
organism of the products of oxidation,
and mainly of carbonic acid, that accu-
mutation being favored and controlled
by reflex action of the nervous system,
which thus protects the organism from
excessive oxidation, and also allows the
organism TO manifest its normal func-
tional activity throughout succeeding
rhythmic period.


But as there are persons who might
worry their minds by endeavoring to ar
range matters according to this pro-
gramme, we may as well try to consider
this desirable "rhythmie period from
a simpler point of view.


The matter has been so thoroughly
discussed In the journals of the land,
ever since sleeplessness became a na-
tional disease, that we do not pretend to
offer any new ideas in regard to it. We
will merely assert, that if we want to
go to sleep, and find ourselves unable
to do SO in the ordinary way, it is an ex-
cellent plan to fix our mind upon some
thing uninteresting, and to keep it
there. Here is the gist of nearly every
thing that has been said about the men
tai processes of inducing sleep.


Nearly every one knows of something
or somebody decidedly uninteresting,
and there are those who could afford to
furnish subjects of this nature to their
friends. But it must be admitted that
it is hard to keep ones mind at work
upon a dull and unengrossing theme.
There is a constant tendency to get in
terested in something and so keep
awake. Generally it is the fact that we
are awake and ought to be asleep that
occupies our minds, and few subjects
could possess a more Painful interest at
the time. In consequence of this ten
dency, this affinity of the mind for mat
ters of interest, it is often necessary to
give a color of pleasurable sensation to
the object of mental contemplation. In
this wayne can think of the thing long
enough to get perfectly tired out, and
so, unconsciously, drop off into slumber.


For instance, suppose we image that
we are rowing a boat, regularly and
steadily, along a quiet and heavily
shaded stream. This is most excel
lent imagination to go to sleep upon.
We know a man who fell into slumber
every night for months thinking upon
this fancy, and in all that time he never
rowed his boat quarter of a mile from
the starting-place.) Well, this idea of
a boat and a pair of oars may be SO ex-
tremely uninteresting to some men, that
it would be impossible for them to keep
their minds upon it long enough to pro
duce the proper effect. In such a case
it might be we'll to put lady in the
stern of the boat But it is necessary
to be careful here. This female must
not be very interesting. We would re-
commend a lady not too young; some
quiet, thoughtful person, with what is
generally known as " a superior mind. "
There should be but little conversation,
and that of a nature to induce somno-
lent reflection. For instance, the lady
might remark, after period of silence,
that she should think that people living
themselves under the influence of a
spell. Now one might be quite certain
that such remark, made by a thought
full woman with superior mind, would
have something in it, and the quiet per
sistence necessary to discover the refer
enco to tie fact that few of the oppor-
tunities for spelling as Consistent til
n-o-p-l-e, together with the gentle and
monotonous exercise with the oars, will
be almost certain to put one to sleep
if anything can.


Persons WHO are in the habit of lying
awake in the morning, before it is time
to get up, viii often find that if they
can but impress it upon their minds
that they ought to get up immediately,
and that it is wrong for them to lie still
a moment longer, the bed viii begin to
grow more attractive, and that the gen
tie drowsiness which besets people who
ought to get out of bed, but who want
to stay there, will very probably steal
upon them. Every one who has ever
wished he could be as delightfully."-
sleepy on Sunday or holiday mornings
as he is on days when he mustrise early
to his work, will appreciate this plan
Scribner'S.


THE ONE-IDEA MAN il like the
merino ram-he shuts up both eyes
and goes for things inkontinently. He
misses ov course, oftener than he hits,
but don't no the difference. He never haz
but one noshun in hiz head to once, and
that noshun is just as apt tew be wrong
az right. Yu kant konvince him that
he IL wrong emmy more than yu ken a
hornet. One-idea men have produced
sum good results in this world, but the
CRATE trouble generally IL that their one
idea IL sum phoolish noshun that no
| boldly konsiders of consequence enough
| to dispewt. One-idea men are their
own wurst enemys, and thar IL but one
cure for them, and that is TO agree with
them. If WI think just as they do,
they will soon want tew think sum 9th
er way, and that lets two ideas git into
their he'd, which makes them perhaps
/ endurable-.JOshB Billings.


A NEW Photographic process Of pecu-
| liar simplicitv is attracting much atten-
ton abroad on account of its dispensing
with much of the paraphernalia which,
in the present mode, involves so greai
an amount of trouble. Instead Of the
usual nitrate of silver bath the inventor
employs what Is known as an emulsion


that is. he mixes with the usual colo


dion few grains Of nitrate of silver


and also nitrate of uranium. These


substances give to the collodiOn a re


markable sensitiveness to light. ii


taking pictures, the operator simply