It will cure a headache. It will cure a
broken spirit. It will cure sorrow. In
deed, we make a long list of nervous
and other maladies that sleep will cure.
The cure of sleeplessness requires a
clean, good bed, sufficient exercise to
promote weariness, pleasant occupa
tion, good air, and not too warm a
room ; a clear conscience and avoidance
of stimulants and narcotics. For those
who are over-worked, nervous, hag
gard, who pass sleepless nights, we
commend the adoption of such habits as
will secure sleep; otherwise life will be
short, and what there is of it sadly im
perfect. Miss Yon Hillern, of Bostou,is the
prevailing pedestrian bore. Weston and
Bates are outdone.
Selling his Birthright.
"Poor fellow, he is selling hia birth
right; it makes aiy heart ache to see
him."
"Selling bis birth-right, Mr. James!
What do yon mean T" said I to a friend
with whom I was walking. "George
Norton is a noble fellow; be is only
sowing a few wild oats; ho will come
ont of it all right; only give him time."
"I repeat it, Stanley," auswered my
friend : "that the young man is selling
his birthright. Let me try and ex
plain what I mean to yon, and we will
take for an example George Norton,
by way of illustration."
"Here is a you:ig man who has re
ceived maoy presents at the hand of
God. A noble and vigorous physical
frame, youth, beautv, manly-vigor, in
tellectual capacity far above mediocri
ty : u generous nature, frank, affection
ate, tecder-hearted, liberal to a fault,
filled with noble impulses, aud yet,
though endowed with all these gifts,
he is veryspendthift of these blesuga.
