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Show Souses do to Sli-ep In JM-tlnite Order. According to the host writers on tho W.iect, it has been ascertained that in ; beginning to sleep the senses do not j unitedly fall into a stato of slumber, but drop off one after the other. The sight ceases, in consequence of lhe protection of the eyelids, to receive impressions first, while all the other senses preserve their sensibility entire. Tho sense of taste is the next which loses its susceptibility suscepti-bility to impressions, nud then tho sense of smelling. : The hearing is next in order, and last of all comes tho sense of touch. Furthermore, Fur-thermore, tho senses nro thought tosleop with different degrees of profoundness. The sense of touch sleeps tho most lightly and is the most easily a wakened; j the next etisiest is tho hearing; the next j is the sight, ami tho tasto and smelling awake the last. Another remarkable circumstance disserves dis-serves notice; certain muscles and parts of tho body begin to sleep before others. bleep commences at tho extremities, beginning be-ginning with the feet nnd legs, and creeping toward the center of nervous action. The necessity for keeping the feet warm nnd perfectly still as a preliminary pre-liminary of Weep is well known. From these explanations it will not appear surprising that, with one or more of the senses, and perhaps also one or nioro parts of the body, imperfectly asleep, there should be at the same time an imperfect im-perfect kind of mental action, which ; produces tho phenomenon of dre"aiiiiuj. i Chambers' iXistellauv. I |