SHORT SLEEPERS.
Froessor Max Muller has recorded a cenvereation he had with Alexander Von Humboldt on the uubject of Bleep. "As I get old," paid Humboldt, " 1 want more Bleep—four boura at leitßt. When 1 wan young two hours were quite enough for me." Humboldt lived to be 89, and eaid it was quite a mistake io think wo Deed seven or eight hours of aloep. Profeaeor Legge, the Chinese scholar at Oxford, rose habitually at 3 a.m. aud allowed himself only live hours' sleep. He died at the aga of 82. Brunei, the engineer, used to work habitually twenty hours a day, and after a few bourß sleep in an arnichiir was always bright and fresh. These examples. Bays "Science Siftiuga," indicate nothing except that certain constitutions can content themselves with very little sleep, thriving well mentally and physically. Short sleep doo» not suit all people.
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Cromwell Argus, Volume XXXV, Issue 1942, 19 June 1905, Page 7
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