Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-04-19
a Book Beer IdyI.

Book beer is forty per can't. more DO.
tent than the ordinary lager or schenk
bear. While under its mystic influence
the leading editor of the Nashville
American thus sings the praises of book
and the Gambrinusian goat:
The book beer is always accompanied
by a picture of festive and irolicsome
goats, but what the goats have to de with
the beer is not discoverable save by the
initiated, who do not divulge it. Perhaps
riding the goat is a part Of the test, OF
perhaps the tested disciple feels like he
has been goat-riding, or msyhap he feels
like a flock Of those festive animals were,
next day. executing the sailors hornpipe
on the top Of his head. Certain it is goats,
painted in all sorts Of impossible colors
and positions, and book beer are o
eomitant; why we have no means Of
knowing
Book beer is said to be forty per cent.
more potent than ordinary lager beer OF
schenk beer-which we take to be a va.
riety of poker beer. The faithful wor.
shipper of G~ambrinus who knows his
calibre and carries on his daily worship
by carrying q regular consignment, is
suddenly lifted forty per cent. by the
horns OF the potent buck. Just think OF
what forty per cent. stronger means. No
discount on the amount Of beer for it's
force of character. Not at all, never;
but a very heavy interest on the here.
after. and a powerful augmentation oil
the wrath to come. 1t means forty per
cent. more ways home, forty per cent.
more moons hung in the heavens. Il
was Burns, WASH. it,
1.-THE moon wi glintin' light did glover
The distant cumm0ck hills out over;
To count her horns wi a. my power
/ set myself,
But whether she had three or four
/ could nae tell"
But then Burns was a fou, but last
had plenty" Instead OF being forty per
cent. beyond hi7 ordinary gauge, be wau
not quite half seas over.
But forty per cent. more OF sacrihcial
offering than the disciple Of Gsmbrinus
is accustomed to offer up is quite a seri.
GUS thing. 1t 10 forty per cent. more OIL
q forest Of lamp-posts on the corner
through which the homeward bound way
farer vainly seeks to find a path-forty
per cent. more g~as.lamps revolving
around the corner, bedazzling and be,
%wildering, and forty per cent. more OIL
gas.lights, extending down the street in
bachsnalisn procession, a long line O.
inebriate lights, circumvoluting, circum
gyratiug, dancing jigs and reels, winding
and Turing on-forty per cent. more o.
pavemeRts to be walked on-forty per
cent more o. front steps to climb forty
per cent. more times than usual-forty
per cent more key I. holes where
there was always an unnecessary redu
pIcation-forty per cent. more OF con.
traction in a doorway never large enough
for sale entrance-forty per cent, more
of hat racks and coal %scuttles aud chairs
then forty per cent. more stairs Ia
climb, and then-ahl then-conjugal in.
terest at the rate Of forty per cent, as
forty per cent. Of tender intensity is add.
ed to the fervid warmth Of connubiaI
welcome-forty per cent. more of walls
and mirrors, and windows, bureaus, man,
tells, ire-places, washstsnds, ceiling aud
carpet patterns going round in continu.
ally accelerated circular progression
whirling slowly, mixed and c~ommingled,
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. still, round and
round-whirling, flying, spinning with
electric speed and electric light and fash
until-the sun breaks in On eighty per
cent. more of peuftential agony. But
then it ZONES only mi a year.