1892 Drinks of the world

WHISKEY.

— "My Stint"

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— Its Manufacture

— Good and Bad

Uisge-beatha

— Materials used in its Manufacture

Early Mentions of Whiskey

— Duncan Forbes and Ferrintosh

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— Duty on

Thorwald

St.

Whiskey— Silent Spirit — Artificial Maturing. NO matter in what country, wherever it term it, interpretation. This is "the wine of the country," both in Ireland and Scotland, and the quantities drank, without any apparently hurtful effect, is astonishing to a southern Englishman. Northwards, on the border land, it is a question whether more whiskey is not drunk, pro rata, than in Scotland. Still, even there, every one is not gifted, as was the Irishman spoken of by John Wilson Croker. He tells the story of a lawsuit, in which a life insurance com- pany disputed a claim, on the ground that the death was caused by excessive drinking. One witness for the plaintiff was called, who deposed that, for the last eighteen years of his life, he had been in the nightly habit of imbibing twenty -fozir tumblers of whiskey punch. The cross-examining counsel wished to know whiskey, bears literally that was known, alcohol has been hailed as the Water of Life, even in the Gaelic. Uisge-beatha, or, as we