SOMNAMBULISTS' FREAKS.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2360, 3 May 1901, Page 6

SOMNAMBULISTS' FREAKS.

A well-known pbyeirian gives an account of «n Irish gentleman who swam more than twa mi'es dowa a river, got asbarr, and was subsequently discovered sleeping by tbe roadside, altogether uncen«cious of the extraordinaiy feat he had accomplished. Professor Kiscbnell.of Bale, writes of a young student of Wurtemberg who used to play hidcand seek while fastislerp. His fellow-students knew of bis propensitr. aad when be hi-gaa " walking" threw boltsters at him, which he always eluded, juwping over bedsteads and other obstacles placed ia bis way. A goalleman was once discovered at one o'clock in the morning in a neighbour's girdea engaged in prayer, evide-ntly uader the impression that he was in church, but otherwise in a deep sleep A jouog girl given te was in tba habit of imilaiiug the violin with her lips, siviag the preliminary tuning and scraping aud 11-junshing with the utmost ri lilitv. It puzzled ler phyMciaa a great deal until he learat tbat when an infant the girl lived in a room adjoin,ng a fiddler, who often performed upon bis instrument witbia her hosring.