The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-02-10

A remarkable case of ''insomnia"
during the past year excited much
interest at Wheeling, West Virginia.
A ship-carpenter, by name Joseph
Salisbury, had not slept an hour at
a time, nor more than ten hours in
all, for above three months /; yet he
represented as "sound and healthy"
and worked every day at his trade
with no relaxation of vigor. When
these facts first became known il was
suspected that Salisbury was an i'm
poster who merely wished to gain
notoricty. Two persons were, there
fore, appointed to watch him every
night after his work. Their report
was that he manifested no desire to
sleep, but spent the night reading
and smoking, and was apparently as
fresh in the morning as though he
had Just risen from u sound nights
rest. Several physicians afterward
took it in turn to sit up all night
with Salisbury and were quite at a
loss to account for this strange pho
nomenon. More than ninety days af-
Salisbury went to bed he declared
that he had lost all desire for repose,
and was never better in his life. --E'c.
There Is this difference between
those two temporal blessings, health
and money-money is the most ell
wed, but the least enjoyed; health
is the most enjoyed, but the least
envied and this superiority of the
latter is still more obvious when we
reflect that the poorest man would
not part with health for money, but
that the richest would gladly part
with all his money for health.
A great deal of talent is lost in
the world for the want of little
courage. The fact is that, to do
anything in this world worth doing,
we must not stand back shivering,
and thinking of the cold and the
danger, but jump in and scramble
through as well as we can.
Infinite toll would not enable you
to sweep away mist, but by ascend
ing n little you may often look over
it altogether. So it is with our
moral improvement; we wrestle
ficrcely with vicious habit which
would have no hold upon us if we
assembled into higher moral atmos-
phere.- Helps.
Let children know something of
the worth of money by earning it;
over pay them if you will, but let
them get some idea of equivalents;
if they get distorted notions Of
values at the start they will never be
righted.-[Talmage.
In making calls, do your best to
tighten the infection to your hostess.
Do not stay long, and do not enter
upon subject of conversation which
may terrify her with the apprchen-
sion that you intend to remain until
you have exhausted it.
A young man blackened his mus
tachc with lead comb and then took
his girl out for moonlight stroll.
When the fair one appeared in the
bright light of the family circle
couple of hours later, her face looked
like q railroad map.
No grace is more necessary to the
Christian worker than fidelity; the
humble grace that marches on in sun
shine and storm when no banners are
waving, and there is no music to
cheer the weary feet rs. J.
Nichols.
Any man may do casual act of
good nature, but q continuation of
them shows it is part of their tenn
perament.-[ Sterne.
Who could live surrounded by
calamities did not smiling hope cheer
him with expectation of deliverance !?
III. Hamilton.
Brown-"Ah Fogg! Quite a
stranger! How do you like your new
residence? Fine landscape, l sup
pose" Fogg-''No, there's no
landscape to speak of. but there's
two fire-'scapes.''
Countess Helen Bismarck, cousin
to Princess Bismarck, is about to
marry an English Member of Parlia-
ment of the name Of Wilfred Cripps.
Fifty years is a long wait for the
golden wedding, but it is an eight
cen carat argument in favor of early
marriages.
A couple were married in Rut-
land, VT, the other day who had
been sparkling for seventeen years.
1t takes some women n long time to
run man down.
''What are you writing such big
hand for, Pat" "Why, you see
my grandmother is deaf, an I'm
writin' loud letter to her!"
Insult not misery, neither deride
infrmity nor ridicule deformity
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