The Duration Of A Dream

Those learned and scientific gentlemen who have gone into the subject declare the longest dreams hardly last a few minutes. The following instance lends support to their views. One evening Victor Hugo was dictating letters to his Becretary. Overeóme by fatigue, the great man dropped into a slumber. A few moments afterward he awoke, haun ted by a dream which, as he thought had extended over severa! hours, and he blamt-d his secretary for sitting there waiting for him, instead of wakening him or else going away. What was his surprise when the bewildered secretary told hira that he had only just finished writing the last seutence dictated to him.