Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1877 — Somnambulism. [ARTICLE]

Somnambulism.

A young man who lives on a farm near Bochara, Australia, lately went to sleep on a sofa after a hard day’s work, and had been lying there some time when he got up and went outside. His companions observed that he walked with a staggering gait, but little notice was taken ot the matter, as they expected him to rejoin them immediately. The somnambulist, for such he was, passed through th»-ee ur four gates, untying and retying the fastenings, which were made of rope, aud made his way to the woodshed. There he hung his coat upon a nail, took down a pair of shears he had been using in the daytime, and proceeded to sharpen them. ■He next caught a sheep, and had just finished sheading it he was awakened by the sudden arri yal of his friends, who had conte with a lantern to look tar him. The shock of awaking caused him to tremble like a leaf, but he soon regained his equanimity. The sheep was shorn as well as if the work had been perfoimed in broad daylight, and the night- was by no means a clear one. Corydon Republican-. “We desire to intimate to Mrs. Williams that she had better keepdier eye on old Blue Jeans, her husband, that sly old fox has been corresponding with one or more of the young ladies of this place, and went so far as to inclose his photograph in the communication. It was said, and his actions go to prove it, that the old fellow was smitten with some of our good looking ladies when here last fall. Mrs. Blue J. had better burry up to the capital.”