A boisterous New-year’s eve reveler, by the name of Downey, was
arrested on a Third Avenue elevated train in New York City:
After listening to the testimony Magistrate Cornell decided that
Downey’s New-year’s enthusiasm had been excessive, and that
he must pay ten dollars to the city treasury. Downey had used
all his available cash in celebrating, and he was about to be
led to the court prison, when his wife, who had been tearfully
listening to the evidence, fell in a faint. She was lifted up
by Callahan, the policeman who arrested her husband, and who
revived her and then inquired if she had any money with which to
pay the fine.
“Not a penny,” she replied, “and poor Jack will have to go to
jail. He’s such a good husband, too,” and the little woman wept.
“I won’t let him go to jail,” said Callahan, and he drew a
ten-dollar bill from his pocket and handed it to the clerk.
Thereupon the Downeys fell on his neck and wept for joy.
(1763)
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Love is, in the spiritual world, what the powers of attraction,
resulting in beautiful harmonies of combination and
interrelation are seen to be in the physical. But the subject
of the law which claims love from moral beings must freely
accept its beneficent rule; while the crystal can not choose
another finish for its angles, or the star select for itself a
rule which will square it instead of rounding it.--RICHARD
S. STORRS.
(1764)