EXTRACTS.

Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1200, 7 August 1874, Page 4

EXTRACTS.

A recent medical writer says:— " Sleep whenever you can—anywhere when you get a chance; tho great want of the age is sleep." This is not always safe advice to follow, as one of our townsmen (says a Canadian contemporary) knows to his cost. He was recently afflicted with a bad cold and, to cure himself of it resorted to the remedy of putting his feet in hot water, and drinking a tumblerful of strong whiskey toddy, prescribed by an aged and respected friend of the family. Having got everything in order for carrying out tho prescription, he sat down -hy the fire, his feet immersed in warjm water, and a tumbler of smoking toddy by his side. In this condition a sense of enjoyment stole over him as he sipped the exhilarating liquid, and he fell asleep. His wife had gone to bed, and, on awakening about three o'clock in the morning, wondered why she was alone. Going down-stairs she was horrified to see her liege lord asleep in his chair, the lire out, his feet still immersed in the water, over which a cake of ice was forming, and an empty tumbler on the chair beside him. His cold isn't a bit better. Truth crushed to earth will rise again, but we have our doubts if John Truth, of Oshkosh, who had a saw-log rolled over on him the other day, will ever gather around the family hearth-stone and eat green apples again. A Nevada paper in speaking of a deceased citizen, says:—f He was a good man, but he had his little frailties, like the rest of us. He sometimes bet on the wrong horse."