1892 Drinks of the world

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if we could not drink, the large bottle, which at one time bid fair to be perennial ; but which has almost succumbed to its younger brother the " Small " Soda. Year by year, through competition and vastly increased consumption, aerated waters are getting cheaper, and consequently more used. The ordinary soda water of commerce contains no soda, — it is made by the absorption, under pressure, of carbonic acid gas, which is generally obtained frorn chalk or whitening, and sulphuric acid, which makes as good a gas for commercial purposes as if it were produced from the purest Carrara marble. The number of chemical teetotal drinks is legion. They are all calculated according to their concocter's reports, to make the drinker healthier and wiser ; nay, even to provide him with extra brain power, as did the vaunted Zoedone, which contained phosphates and They have their litde day, and another nostrum It has, hitherto, always been so, and probably will continue, only intensified, to the end qf time. J. A. iron. takes their place.