Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1895 — Made Good His Statement [ARTICLE]

Made Good His Statement

In his class at Yale, says Dr. Snipe, was a student who climbed street lamp posts and removed street signs for his room ornamentation. The chief of police at New Haven happened by accident one day to see the signs in his room, and after informing him that the fine for thus removing such articles was $5 per sign, inquired how many he had. The youth replied, “Forty.” The chief said If he would return them the mischief would be overlooked. On hunting up the signs the student discovered that he had but thirty-two, and that night he stole eight more in order to return, as he did next day, precisely forty signs. It is much easier to pass a good resolution than to enact it ,