1908 The World's Drinks and How to Miw Them by Hon Wm Boothby (1st edition)

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WITTY, WISE AND OTHERWISE.

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Flag your own t rain. Too many arn asleep at the switch.

Stick to one thing 'till you get there; tllat's what makes postage stamps valuable. 'fhe disasters which happened to- a uew saloon.keeper's customers: One of them said, "I will pay you on Saturday night, if I live." He's dead. Another said, "See you to-morrow." He's blind. Still another said, "I hope to pay you this week or go to hell." He's gone. A. San Jose, Cal., saloonman displays a beautifully gilded sign behind his bar which reads as follows: "We can treat all the p eople some of the time, we can treat some of the people all the time, but we can't treat all the people all the time.-With apologies to Abe J;incoln." A timely volume on "Warm Weather Drinks" is issued by McSplw·g & Co. .b'or an informal afternoon party "Bath House Fizz" will be found delightful. To a keg of beer add a bottle of tobasco sauce, the juice of 250 lemons, 50 pounds of sugar and a quart of wood alcohol. Carefully peel two raisins, mince them fine and sift over the mixture. Add thirty s.eidlitz powders and serve while it fizzes. N. B.-'fhe author has ncYer trierl this recipe, so cannot recommend the mixture. San Feliu de Guixols, a small 'seaport town about 100 miles from Bar– celona, Spain, manufactures nearly all the champagne corks as well as cork disks for crown tops, cork insoles for shoes, etc. The cork bark used in this extensive industry is all imported from Portugal, Algiers and Andalusia. 'fhe best champagne corks cost nine cents each in France. Most of the corks in use a re made by sticking two or more pieces of cork together, as champagne corks are becoming scarcer · every year. If one will take the trouble to boil a number of old champagne corks for a few minutes, you will find that many of them can be pulled apart where they have bE.en joined. In no other way can one possibly discover the deception.

Here's to Champagne, the drink divine That makes us forget our troubles, It's made of a dollar's worth of wine Ancl four clollars' worth of bubbles.