Morning journal and courier., 1885-07-28
NO. 177
entire system; hence chills, fever, malaria and half the ills that human flesh is heir to-
 Rise before the sun, And make breakfast of the morning dew Served up by nature on some grassy hill; You'll find it nectar,

And make breakfast of the morning dew. Served up by nature on some grassy hill; You'll find it nectar
 Was ever more arrant nonsense writtena Fancy a man getting up on cold, r,iny morning and climbing high hills on an emp ty stomach, and leaving his French coffee and hot rolls, poached eggs and oyster stew, to eat-what? Why, dew: How long would that fellow last? Wouldn't he be 8 fit candi- date for Lone mountain, and questions asked? But the early bird catches the worm. Yes, but the sharp boy knocked the delusion in the head forever and eternally when he said: 'Father, there's the point-what in thunder did the worm get up so early fora" should not have done it. That boy was 8 benefactor to the human race. He was sound on the ie-abed question.
 The French proverb says: '.De lit Ia rable, de Ia table au It''-"From bed to grub, from grub to bed" That's something like it. Get up and eat, eat and go to bed again. Why nota All the animals do it. All nature, the grandmother of us all. teaches it. Every animal in the world eats and seeks repose. The COW eats and, lying down, placidly chews her cud; the anaconda swallows an OK, horns and all, and goes to sleep-"sleep that knits up the travelled sleeve of care; the birth of each days life, sore labor's bath, balm of hurt minds; great natures second course; chief nourisher in life's feast" And yet this is what they would deprive us of who say get up, and who op- pose the art of lying abed
 Spanish minister, suddenly raised to power, signalized the event by going to bed and staying there for fear he might have something to do. It was in bed in the little inn of Waterloo, that the Duke of Yelling ton received the list of the terrible casualties of the fatal June IS. Gray's "Ode to Mu- sic" was written in bed, and Sam Johnson's ''Lobo's Voyage to Abyssinia' was dictated | n A bafOra he Of "Lives of the Poets' and Photographer had arisen. Peter Pindar Dr. Wolcott) was so fond of lying abed that he received his visi- tors lying beneath spreads and counterpanes. Rossini wrote one of his finest operas in bed, and was too lazy to pick up sheet that had fallen away. George " lay in bed to read the newspapers, and Macaulay read twenty pages of Schiller before getting up. John Foster thought out his sermons in bed, and the methodical Anthony Trollope used to read an hour before getting up. Cynical Pope wrote:
 wake at night,
 Fools come into my head and so write.
 Mrs. Macbeth strikes the keynote when she shouts, f'To bed! to bed!" People hunt the world over for pleasure, indulge in all sorts of mad pranks in their search for re- creation and repose, roam from the north pole to the southern cross, penetrate African lungles and freeze with Siberians and Lap flanders, climb the Alps, swelter at Saratoga and Long Branch in pursuit of pleasure. Alas! they seek happiness where it is not and neglect it where it is-in bed.
 Never get up, 'Tis the secret of glory;
 Nothing so true can philosophy preach; Think of the names that are famous in story
 Never get up is the lesson they teach. How have men compassed immortal achievements?
 How have they moulded the world to their will? 'TiS that mid sorrows and threats and bereave-
 mentS
 Never get up' was their principle still.
 
 The report that Editor John A. McDon- aid had been appointed postmaster at Willi- mantle proves incorrect.
 A new sandy beach has appeared at Fen wick, Saybrook Point, and all the bath houses near the Fenwick House being moved to it.
 Out of respect to the dead general and ex- president, many Bridgeport ladies now wear black and white bunting nattily twisted around their straw hats.
 The Rev. c. T. Weitzel of the First Con- gregational church at Norwich Town resigned his place as pastor on Sunday to accept call in San Bernardo, Cal.