The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1876-11-11
The Origin of Cir.

and easy to make, pleasant to drink. and
very useful as a medicine for every one
suffering from dropsv or any of the
other diseases which require that the
kidneys should be encouraged to do
their work efficiently. The wine soon
came into use, but being found to be too
much of a medicine for persons who
were not invalids to care about taking it
in large quantities, Il Dutch professor
Mynheer Sylvins, of Leyden, who died
just two centuries ago, discovered IL
process for converting the juice of the
juniper-berries into liquor which had
all the medicinal properties OF juniper
juice and grapevine, and was at the
same time more suitable for general use,
and as the French word for juniper is
genierye, the new spirit came to be
called geneva-a title which must not
he confounded with Geneva, the capital
of Switzerland The invention came,
not from Switzerland, but from Hol-
land. and to this circumstance and to
the fact that for very long time it was
principally manufactured in that coun-
try, both it and the similar liquor which
now goes with us by the name of gin,
are often called Hollands. The original
geneva, however, is very different from
both Hollands and gin. 1t is a spirit
formed by the fermentation of juniper
berries by themselves, which contain Il
peculiar saccharlne principle. yielding
alcohol to the extent of thirtythree per
cent of the entire substance fermented,
along with about one per cent of very
powerful essential oil, which is the real
medicinal element of the liquor. The
old geneva soon came into fashion. and,
from being made and sold exclusively
by the apothecaries, began to be sold in
larger quantities by ordinary distillers,
until they found it convenient to de-
velop new trade by adding certain
quantity of junipcr-juice to ordinary
corn-spirit, and thus to produce a yet
more palatable beverage for the use of
healthy people. This beverage also took
the name of geneva although to separ-
ate it from the juniper spirit the more
appropriate name of Hollands was APP
piled to it. and its manufacture rapidly
became very important branch of bust
ness, especially in Schiedam, where now
there are about 175 distilleries. nearly
as many as are to he met with in Rotter-
dam, Amsterdam, Condo, and all the
other Dutch towns.
RAPID PROGRESS. - Mehemet Ali
Pasha, who commands the Turkish
troops in Bosnia. is the son of French
man settled in Berlin His father,
named Detrois. was formerly harpist of
forty years ago he confided his son to a
Prussian captain then going to the Lee
want. On arriving in the Bosphorus,
the lad deserted from the ship to escape
the ill-trcatment he received on board
and took refuge with great Turkish
seigneur, by whom he was placed at
school. The youth embraced the Mo
hammedan religion, and made rapid
progress. Thirty years later he was a
general of division, pursuing brigands
in Thessaly. 1t was by the greatest of
hazards that the father discovered that
Mehemet Ali Pasha was his son. AS
soon MS he knew it he informed the lat
ter of his wretched condition, and the
son Immediately sent to him sum of
money through the Ottoman embassy at
Berlin, asking for the blessing of his
parent, whom he had supposed to be
long dead.
LEMONS ARE HEALTHY. Some one,
writing about the healthfulness of lem
ons, says, "When people feel the need
of an acid, if they would let vinegar
alone, and use lemons or sour apples,
they would feel just rs well satisfied,
and receive no injury He suggests
that several dozen lemons should be
purchased when they are cheap, and
prepared for use by the following
method:
Press your hand on the lemon and
roll it back and forth briskly on the
table, to make it squeeze more easily !;
then press the juice into bowl or tum-
bler-never into tin; strain out all the
seeds, as they give bad taste. Remove
all the pulp from the peels, and boil in
water-a pint to dozen pulps-to ex-
tract the acids. A few minutes boiling
is enough; then strain the water with
the juice of lemons; put a pound of
white sugar to pint of the juice; boil
ten minutes; bottle it, and your lemon
ade is ready. Put tcaspoonful or two
OF this lemon syrup in glass of water,
and you have a cooling. healthful drink.
REMEDY FOR NIGHTMARE.-Slightd de-
rangement of the digestive or other
functions are often sufficient to occasion
a temporary delirium in children, COM
menced during the sleep and continued
during the waking. The suffering is
great and the condition an alarming one
to parents and friends. The mental ex-
element is so intense rs to resist the
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