SLEEP AT A DISCOUNT.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XV, Issue X, 7 September 1895, Page 297

SLEEP AT A DISCOUNT.

There are great varieties among individuals, both in the lightness of slumber and the extent of its duration. There are heavy sleepers and light sleepers ; there are those that require several hours, and those that require but few. Many eminent persons have been satisfied with five hours out of the twentv-four, which is the amount attributed to Frederick the Great, while on particular emergencies a much shorter sleep seems to have sufficed. Marshal I’ichegrue stated solemnly that during a year’s campaign lie had not slept more than one hour in every twenty-four. In one month during the Peninsular campaign the biographer of the Duke of Wellington declares that he slept but two hours a day. Napoleon averaged four, while Edison, the American inventor, gives it as his opinion, that three is all that he has required for twenty years.