Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-12-18
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THOUGHTS ON

For the Infringement
RAMBLING THOUGHTS ON
LAGER"
There is no subject which more occupies the
mind of the American public, at the present day,
than the great and much debated Lager Bier
question: There is nothing, may venture to
say, which more occupies the barrels of our
German public than the lager itself Let the
aspirant for political honors present himself be-
fore the public for their suffiages, and the first
question asked is, SIS he sound on the lager -
Towhich questionthe aforesaid aspirant' friends
or the aspirant himself, if he respect the voice
of the people, (aspirants always do) and if he
have single hope to win, Caspirants always
Aare) can only reply, and will only reply and
docs only reply, that he sound on the lager
The minister in the pulpit must confine his
theological views strictly withnthe spirit .thc
lager question: or ten one, he will, ere anoth-
er Sabbath morning dawns upon him, receive
the gratifying notification from the COMMITTEE
appointed byapd on behalf, &c, z that his pas
toral services can, for the future be dispensed
with
the judges decisions, and the editors leaders,
must all be measured, weighed and adjusted by
that aIl-applicapable standard-..tte lagcr.'--
Even the qualities of our social and moral being
are now rated by no other than that same uni
versal rule; and would you believe it ?-no later
than last evening, my friend Joe sparkles (as
clever fellow as ever whitfield a .stogiep rela-
ted to me, in downright good earnest, how the
lady Of his affection had rejected his suit, for
the simple, yet unanswerable reason, that she
did not consider him Sound on the lager"
But lager, considered in its actual material re-
atty, aside from the many momentous questions
which have grown out of it in the abstract, has
quite as potent influence upon our existing
state of society, and deserves (and receives
quite as important regard ut our hands. 1t is
to society (et course, ! mean only the refined
portion of society an Acknowledged catholicon,
for, almost every species of physical, moral and
mental mnlady-a kind of universal panacea-
a general tonic tor every good quality of heart
and body, and regularly constituted eradicator
OF everything morbid in its character, whether,
it be dull care" in the breast, or dyspepsia in
the stomach.
In the course of my random observance--2x-
perience, if you soiU have it SOL hive noted
that there are various contingencies, times and
modes, specially marked out, for the disposal of;
lager. 1t would be strange, if the Buchanan
man didn't indulge in half dozen, or so mugs
OF lager ON the evening that the news of Bucks
triumph arrived, just by way of showing his
moderation in times of prosperity. 1t would
be very strange if the Fillmore man didn't at an
exactly cotemPoraneous period, indulge in his
laScr, to show by an inverse rule, his admirable
resignation under circumstances of aCiversity.-
And it would be passing strange if the Buchan-
an man and Fillmore man didn't both drink lager
for weeks and days before the election, as the
only means Of drowning their apprehcnsions or
giving spirit TO their anticipaticns, rs the case
might be. 6a a.,
have said that there are yarions asa5ss for
the disposins of lager. Avery honorable mode
though sometimes not the most pleasant to
yourself-is to call around you half a dozen
friends and "tfedtn to the lager. Sometimes it
is disposed of most adroitly, by your ordering
lager all round, y or .lager for the crowd;' and
| have been adyisedby those who ktio1, that
the most elegant, and withal the most expetii-
tons, mode now in use is, totoss nimbly yonr
quarter upon the stand, then throwing yourself
in approved position, utter not one single syla-
BILE more than that al, expressive word .laecr ),
You may then confidently expect every living
soul in the s.hall'' to be lagered But 50 varied
arc the modes Of disposing of aud using lager,
that to attempt aforementioned onc-half of them
would be infinite. AT the request of yourfricnd
Fred. you go and lager, = invited by yourjolly
friend Bob, you merely ..lager'-Sam next
steps in, and at his urgent solicitation, you
"heps some lager, and finally, You can't think
of leaving until you 'drial, some lager with
that capital fellow, your worthy associate,
Charley.
Even the very name of lager, garlanded as it
is with the neyer-fading wreaths, and elnbalmed
in the purcst spirit of poetry, hasbecome classic
in its association. How the fire of martial en-.
thusiasm kindles at those soul-swelling words
when Dutch meets pucs then comes the Lager Beer
and what n tender sympathy. what u sublimet
solemnity in thesel I,
"what Is life mi. oat .he Lager"
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A LOVER OF Tue DRAMA---The Boston, Satu--.
day Evening Gazette says that the lover of the
drama and those N tn hrs