SEVEN STAGES OE DRUNKENNESS.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1722, 27 August 1879, Page 3

SEVEN STAGES OE DRUNKENNESS.

All the world’s a pub. And all the men and women merely drinkers: They have their hiccups and their staggeringa; And one man in a day drinks many glasses, His acts being seven stages. At first the gentleman. Steady and steadfast in his good resolves ; And then the wine and bitters, appetiser, And pining, yearning look, leaving like a snail The comfortable bar. And then the arguments, Trying like Hercules with a wrathful frontage To refuse one more two-penn’orth. Then the mystified, Full of strange thoughts, unheeding good advice, Careless of honor, sodden, thick, and gutt’ral, Seeking the troubled repetition Even in the bottle’s mouth, and then quite jovial. In fair good humour while the word swims round, _ , . With eyes quite misty, while his friends him cut, Full of nice oaths and awful bickerings : And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts Into the stupid, slipping drunken man With “blossoms” on his nose and blearyeycd, His shrunken face unshaved, from side to side He rolls along ; and his unmanly voice Huskier than ever, fails and flies And leaves him—staggering round. Last scene of all. That ends this true and painful history. In stupid childishness, and then oblivion — Sans watch, sa<is chain, sails coin, sans everything. —“Public Opinion.”

Denis O’Flaherty said that his wife was very ungrateful, for. “when I married her she hadn’t a rag to her back, and now she’s covered with ’em.” Bleeding at the nose can be stopped by telling a man that his parents were born in a poorhouse. His nose will stop and yours will begin. —“ Detroit Free Press.” Half the time we have had a peculiarly bright thought, we have found, after putting it in elegant language, that some Shakespeare or Longfellow or Carlyle has anticipated us, and not unfrequently used our very words. If those fellows had never been, it had been millions in our pocket.— ‘ ‘ Boston Transcript. ” A Boston man is about to make a trip around the world in an eighteen-foot boat, , taking his wife with him on the journey, i He has steadily declined tempting offers to take the wires of several other Bostonians.