SEVEN STAGES OF DRUNKENNESS.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2292, 10 September 1870, Page 2

SEVEN STAGES OF DRUNKENNESS.

In the ooar-e of an ,fmti6h*fdr the reoo* very of damages from a railway cotapa iy heard in the Court 6f Queen’s Bench, Dublin, John M'Cluskey, a, railway guard, was examined by Mr Carle toil, Q. C. He deposed that on the morning on which thCplamtiff .sustained the Occident hje 1 Sfut' him' tit Enfield, and called on him to take his seat or he would be'left behind, the train was delayed a few minutes while he was trying to take his seat; the station mastfii also called to him. ' ' i ' Had you an opportunity of judging of the position o£.Mr Sloane as to his being capable of taking care of himself ? Witness: I suppose I must answer the question. - Mr Carle ton : Indeed you must, Chief Justice : There- is notuiug confidential here, everything is above: board, (Laughter.) Witness: Well, he was not sufficiently sober to know that he was drunk. (Laughter. ) ; Mr Heron, Q.C. : In your opinion; then, if he knew he was drunk he would be more sober.. (Great laughter.) Witness: I can explain all the" phases of it, if you do nob deem it personal, (Great laughter.) Mr Heron, Q.Q. : Not a bit, go on. What is the first stage ?—To drink. '' What is the second ?—To feel that- you have taken drink. : :

What is the third ?—To feel it a little stronger. (Laughter) ’ ’ -i What is the fourth ?—Shaky. (Laughter.) The fifth?— Drunk. (Renewed laughter.) The sixth? —You are unconscious, and don’t kn6w you are drunk, (Laughter.), And, in your opinion, was the plaintiff unconscious enough not to know he was drunk ?—I believe he was not sober cenpugh to know it. i V What's the Seventh stage of all, that ends this eventful history? Delhiim tremens. (Great laughter).