The Duration Of Sleep

Let iis briefly alinde lo the duration of slee]) - how in somo cases a few hours ill suffloe, and Ld other.s a lonjjer period is needed. Dr. Beid, the mctaph 'sici:in, could work for two days without ;i break if he got one sound sleep alter a f uil méal. lfthe storics aboni Lord Brongharu eould bc bclicved, he could work on loss sleep than most people require. Frderick the Great and John Bonter roquirad only fire hours' sloep; but it must not be supposed that becauge men vrith exceptjonally powerful nervous organizations can dispense with the normal qnantíty of . it WDuld be safe for everyboily to follow their example. The sleep of the heart, which we have seento amount to eight houra out of twenty-four, is a fair indication of the quantáty of sleep which on an average onght to be allowed to the brain. As sir Thomas üi'owne, the learned kuight of Narwich, hsth it: "Hall pur days we p.iss n the shadow of theearth, and the brother of death extractcth a third part of üves." - ¦ -for All. Harainocks are kootty, bul ih--y re ulce. The i in dapgei 1 diolcra Infantutn. A co'.vb 'y appe.ired in the streeta oí A.utln, Texas, ciad lo apiir of pmts made of Angora goat-skln with the bair on the out side. An eastcrn lady wanted to buy them for a rug, but as he hadn't any others he modestly refused.