Show SOME OF OUR SLEEPERS Some of our wellknown men knit up the raveled sleeve of care by curious and apparently unnatural methods of sleep Edison for example can remain awake for a week if his mind is wrapped up in a new discovery There is a famous doctor in this city who sleeps only forty winks at a time Dr Joseph Howe slept the last l twenty years of his life in a Turkish bath He could sleep nowhere else W J Arkell stays awake frilm Monday morning till Friday night then goes to Canajoharle and sleeps for two days Dr Depew has lately acquired the habit of taking a siesta and finds it beneficial Webster Web-ster could never stay awake later than 9 oclock Many a time he was caught standing behind the door fast asleep His head grew an eighth of an inch a year and the increasing weight of brain made long sleep imperative New York Press |