Tired Nature's Sweet Restorer

A wnter says sleep is positively neceasary. It is a period of reouperation, during which thero is a restoration of what has snffered collapBo, waste, or disturbance during the period of waking activity. The tired brain and the uohiiig musoles regain by rest streugth and the power to obey the niandates of the will, The deniands of the material form for rest are so great as to ofteu defy tho action of the mind. During the cholera summer of 1849, while practising in the couutry, so oonstant and íatiguing were my professional labors that 1 have often ridden on horseback sound asleep. Alinost evory physician in aotive practioe during periods of epidémica, when his strength was taxed to the utmost, has dropped into a sleep as I have done many times while walking the street. During the battle of the Nile many of the boys engaged in handing ammunition fu 11 usleep even while the roar of the battle was going on aronnd them. It is said in the retreat to Corunna whole batalions of infantry slept while in rapid maroh. Even the most acute bodily sufFerings are not always suflioient to prevent sleep. The worn-out frame of the viotim of the Inquisition has yielded to its influences in the pause of his tortures upon the rack, and for a moment he has forgotten his sufferings. The Indian burned at the stake, in the interval betwaen the preliminary torture and the lighting of the fire, has sweetly Blumbered, and been only aroused by the flamo which was to cou1 sume him curling around him."