Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1873 — How to Turn Out. [ARTICLE]

How to Turn Out.

The Duke of Wellington always slept on an iron camp-bedstead eighteen inches wide. “When a man wants to turn over,”—hesaid, “it ;.isu„#me ftrr hilu Tcr turn out.” The Emperor Nicholas did the same. Mr. Owen says: The principle is well enough; but I think the detail is wrong. Sleep itself is too important to be made uncomfortable. My old friend Rossiter fixed li;s alarum, so that, jit the foreordained moment, the bedclidthes were dragged from the bed and Rbssiter lay shivering. I have myself somewhere" the drawings and specifications for a patent (which I never applied for), which aranges a set off-cams and wheelwork under the bedstead, which at the moment appointed, lift the pillow end six feet, and deliver the sleeper on the now horizontal foot-board. He is not to sleep long after that. Rossiter found another eontrivance that worked better. The alarm-clock struck a match, which lighted the lamp which boiled the water for Rossiter’s shaving. If Rossiter staid in bed to long, the water boiled over upon his razor andjelean Shirt, and the prayerbook his mother gave' him, - and Coleridge’s autograph, and his open pocket, book, and all the other precious things he could put in a basin underneath when he went to bed; so he had to get up before that moment came. —Old and New. A Potato-bug Raid.— A singular pkenomenon -in the potato-bug line was witnessed at Chardon, on Thursday afternoon of last week. Shprtly after three o’clock a cloud of ■potato'‘bugs on the wing entered and passed through the town, coming from the east and ffylng directly west. At first they were taken for a swarm of bees, but some of them falling to the ground their character was sioon determined. The first swarm was soon followed by a second, third and fourth, and so on for the space of an hour and a half, much to the astonishment of all who beheld. They were estimated at tens of thousands, reminding those who witnessed of the Bible accounts of the locusts ,ip the days of Pharaoh. No one was able to solve the mystery of their coming or going, but all were glad that they did not pitch their tents on potato hills of Chardon. Per. haps they are returning to Colorado to renew their citizenship and take a new start toward the rising su n.—Painesrille (0.) Telegraph.