The Little Gleaner, Vol. X.: A Monthly Magazine for the YoungVarious
Religion
The Little Gleaner, Vol. X.: A Monthly Magazine for the Young
Various
Christian literature for children -- Periodicals
THE WARRANT FOR BUNYAN'S LAST IMPRISONMENT.--Among the Chauncy
collection of autographs recently dispersed by Messrs. Sotheby, there
lay, hidden and unnoticed, the original warrant under which Bunyan was
apprehended for that third and final imprisonment of some six months'
duration, during which, according to his latest biographer, he wrote the
first part of "The Pilgrim's Progress." It fills a half-sheet of
foolscap, and is dated March 4th, 1674-5, under the hands and seals of
twelve justices, six of them, either then or in the Parliament of 1678,
members for county or borough, and three of whom had originally
committed him for the previous twelve years' imprisonment.
COMPOSITION DURING SLEEP.--Lord Thurlow told his nephew that, when
young, he read much at night, and that once, while at college, having
been unable to complete a particular line in a Latin poem he was
composing, it rested so on his mind that he dreamed of it, completed it
in his sleep, wrote it out next morning, and received many compliments
on its classical and felicitous turn. In my own experience, I have
imagined myself, during sleep, to be listening to instrumental music
quite new to me, and have been able to reproduce the melody next day;
and I have now in my possession a MS. copy of a Dead March composed by
the author, from whom I had it, in a dream.--_Correspondent of "Notes
and Queries._"
THE DANGERS OF EATING ORANGE PEEL.--It is a very bad habit to eat orange
peel. Nor is the juvenile habit of eating apples with the peel on to be
recommended either. Parents who do not care as yet to correct these evil
propensities will perhaps be more inclined to do so when they hear that
the little black specks which may be found on the skins of oranges and
apples that have been kept some time are clusters of fungi, precisely
similar to those to which whooping-cough is attributed. Dr. Tschamer, of
Graz, who has made the discovery, scraped some of these black specks off
an orange, and introduced them into his lungs by a strong inspiration.
Next day he was troubled with violent tickling in the throat, which by
the end of the week had developed into an acute attack of
whooping-cough.
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