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Show CONCERNING DrlEAMS. Fhey Occupy Only m Few Seconds and Are Affectttd by Evjnts. Doctors assert that dreamB occupy a few seconds only at most the space of about three minutes. This statement Is startling to those who have not noticed no-ticed for themselves wiiat part time plays in such a connection. The writer has had several opportunities of proving prov-ing its correctness herttlf, and many might arrive at a similar knowledge by asking to be awakened r minute or bo after falling into a first sleep. All who dream will do so immed:ately on falling fall-ing into unconsciousness. Another reli able test is to be found in the sleep that follows upon the morning summons for rising. A few more moments snatched for the tempting after doiewill not un-frequently un-frequently mean a dreambf a very elaborate elab-orate nature one which Implies almost as many hours as secondS7 Are dreams affected bj the events of our wakeful hours? is th( question that has been asked over and ever again, but the result of observation 1 ads one to believe be-lieve in such being the c iso or not, according ac-cording to the importance with which we treat them. In connection with such a question events and individuals can scarcely fail to require separate consideration. consid-eration. Events that are all important to some do not commend themselves in that light to others, and this fact leads one to express the opinion that, according accord-ing to the intensity with which outward events occupy onr thoughts, will our dreams be in any way affected by them. To one woman the exercise of hospitality hos-pitality means the entire surrender of her mental domain to all the worries, real or imaginary, consequent upon the" preparations for the contemplated entertainment. en-tertainment. To another, the needful directions once given, there is an immediate imme-diate return to considerations which outweigh out-weigh in her opinion the more material ones that held a whilom place in her .thoughts. In the one case culinary failures fail-ures and visions of indiiferent service will probably haunt the dreams that precede or follow that entertainment. In the other no such tortures are involved in-volved in the sleeping hours. There have been startlir.1?, the brain 'a nr'.-jpyr tnant-!- ; a";r , ss5 during 5itep.. A cj e in point is , that of a lawyer engaged in a criminal defense. The examination of one witness wit-ness after another seemed only to add to the proof of his client's guilt. Wearied one night with trying to find some point which might turn the scale in the prisoner's pris-oner's favor, he fell asleep, and in a dream the desired point stood out clearly. clear-ly. On awakening it was immediately worked out, and the verdict of "not guilty" was found consequent upon that revelation afforded during the hours of sleep. When exercising the imaginative faculties fa-culties to any great extent, the dreams will always preserve the ideal character charac-ter of the wakeful hours. The composer will dream of the melodies which provide pro-vide his own lullaby when dropping into slumber, and the artist and the writer enter the land of dreams in company com-pany with those that the pen or the brush are guided to depict with such a loving hand. Plots have been furnished and subjects for the canvas have been suggested over and over again in the quiet hours of the night, when to all outward appearances there is nothing but the most peaceful slumber on the part of the sleeper. Cincinnati Commercial Com-mercial Gazette. inectric quantity" ana tension or intensity in-tensity are terms based on the assumption assump-tion that electricity is a fluid. Quantity Quan-tity is the amount of the fluid that a body contains as its charge and the tension ten-sion or intensity on any point of its surface sur-face insulated electricity lies on the surface is the depth, or if the depth remain the same the density of the fluid at that point. The quantity has reference refer-ence to the number of particles electrified electri-fied and the amount of force lodged in each; the tension has reference simply to tho inductive force lodged in each. Particles that are highly electrified must polarize powerfully the particles near them, and if powerful enough cause discharge. Tension or intensity, therefore, is the power to polarize and effect discharge. The quantity of electricity elec-tricity passing in a current is estimated by the power of the current to deflect 'the magnetic needle by the chemical decomposition de-composition it effects, or by the temperature temper-ature to which it raises a wire of given thickness and material. The tension or intensity of the current is the power which it has to transmit a current against resistance, such as that offered by a bad, long or thin conductor. Tension, Ten-sion, 6trictly speaking, is not a property of tho current, bu t of the battery which generates the current. Brooklyn Eaale. |