Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1886 — The Champion Snorer. [ARTICLE]

The Champion Snorer.

Persons afilicted with an incurable habit of snoring are apt to become a positive nuisance to others who may be forced to take their nightly rest within ear-shot of the annoying music; and we remember some time ago the suit brought by a French lady who demanded to be separated from Ber husband on no more serious ground than because he snored so tremendously and incessantly that nerves were affected. She had patiently tried every device ingenuity could suggest to palliate the nuisance. She had selected for her bed chamber a room at one end of the apartments the conple occupied, while her husband slept in a room right at the other. Yet the sounds were too audible; she fell a victim to a nervous disease, and she pleaded for separation. In court this poor woman declared she believed no other man ever did, over could, snore like the man whose name she bore. In this, however, it would appear she mistaken, for a farmer named Lester, lately deceased, in Switzerland; and known as the snorer of Zurich, did far more in the same line. Fortunately he was a bachelor. He lived alone, it is narrated, in a spacious house, the malady—.for such it seally was, in his case —with which he was afflicted, having of recent years attained such a degree of intensity that his snoring might be heard of a night from the garret to the ground floor. This peculiar infirmity was a cause of genuine trbuble to the poor fellow, and it was on account of it that he never dared to marry. —London Standard.