Litchfield enquirer., 1880-09-09
Beer Guzzling.

That tnls history OF the county can DO prepar-
ed and published.
..~s Beer Guzzling.
The Springfield Republican publishes an
interesting correspondents letter referring to
the immense amounts of beer drinking done
in Germany. We wish those who talk of re-
form by way Of supplanting distilled with
malt liquors were aware of the fearful guz-
zling they propose to insugurate. This
writer gives the following lively sketch of
the way the German does his drinking:
The German begins drinking beer as soon as
he wakes in the morning. Before he takes his
coffee he swallows few glasses to counter
act the effect of the beer Of the day previous.
In place of coffee he takes beer again, which
he slows away as foundation on which to
build the days work in beer-drinklng, Dur
ing the forenoon he has not fingers and toes
enough to tally the number of glasses that it
takes to give him an appetite for his dinner.
Up to this time it has been mere child's play
just practising the scales as it were-to keep
his throat plable. In the afternoon he gets
decidedly thirsty, and he makes business of
beer drinking; he ''wades in," so to speak,
and the number of glasses that he consumes
by IL or l O'Clock at night would be as diff
ficult to count as shower of shooting stars
Idon't wish to overdraw the picture, or
paint it in false colors. I wish it merely to be
understood that the Germans, as race, are
very fond of beer and that they drink good
deal of it. Many of the old Heidelberg pro-
fessors drink of an evening from thirty to
forty glasses in addition to what they have
taken through the day. They do no manual
labor, they toll not in the fields, or under the
rays OF the hot sun, they drink not from thirst
but because they are accustomed to it; they
have drank from their cradles to middle age
and old age, and they take pride in being able
to boast of the great number of glasses they
have swallowed at one sitting. have heard
of German students that have drank seventy
two and seventy three glasses of an evening,
and German beer glasses are not wine glasses
in size either. The student who has arrived
to such perfection in the art as to be able to
stow away seventy glasses and over is a pet
OF the university, and especially with the
professors. He is crowned king and made
hero of by his brother students, he "wears
the belt' until some one else is found who can
60 beyond his highest number.
We have seen some thing like this in the
cider drinking habits of our ancestors. Such
gradual substitution of beer for blood in the
human constitution may be better than the
mad intoxication and delirium of distilled
liquors, but it is bad enough. The beer-drink-
er will never be the equal of the water-drink-
er either in the amount of work he accom-
plishes or in the life he leads. There is no
doubt that beer is largely supplanting brandy
with US Americans. This may be step in
the way to reform, but we should be very
sorry to see reform stop there
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Liberal dissatisfaction is on the increase
with the House Of Lords. That body is TAX
ing the liberty of multiplying Their Liberal
victory by rejecting every bill embedying even
the most necessary reforms. In debate on
Friday night. Mr.. Forster, Chief Secretary for
Ireland, blamed the Lords severely for their
contemptuous treatment of the Registration
bill. He said if such proceedings were per.
sisted in in the future, there would come q
time when some change in the Constitution OF
the House OF Lords would be necessary.
This declaration was received with tremen-
dous cheering in the House, and of course
filled Sir Stafford Northcote, leader Of the
Tory opposition, with amazemeut and regret.
Unless tho House Of Lords modfies its action
very materially it is like to find itself dispens
ed with altogether, some fine morning.
The New York Tribune pays just compli
nlent to the outgoing administration. We
have never known President so near the end
OF his term 80 popular among the people. Pres.
Hayes came in with cloud on his title which
even those who thought him duly elected
could not but regret. 1t would have been
easy for him to have made himself the most
unpopular. man in the United States. Instead
of doing that, he took . just, manly, indepen.
dent course which has earned him the respect
of all parties. We believe that. if he were be-
fore the people today for reelection, he could
poll Democratic votes which win now be Civ
en- to Gen.. Hancock, and as full a Republican
vote as Garfield. s,a agif .a@ .'7f.E7
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England is a Mrs. Chopper, q California lady,
six feet AID three inches high. She is thus
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She is rather slender, but well proportioned
and OF true blonde type. She possesses
mass ct fair hair, which falls in the slightest
psssible waves, lovely soft blue eyes, and
features as perfect as though chiseAed out of
the finest marble by q master hand. asHer
beautifully moulded hands and arms are dis
tinguished for their delicaey. She walks,
dances and rides with equal grace. One most
noticeable feature in this lady is her exquisite
taste. combined with simplicity, in dress.
With thousands at her command, she does not
possess the vulgar love of undressing others,
Her beauty is hereditary, as her mother was
considered the handsomest woman in Ohio,
and even now is attracting almost as much
notice as is handsome daughter.
There is to be Drummers and Filters Con-
vention at Hartford on the 18th, OF October.
Names should be sent in to w. 81. Hosmer of
the Fife and Drum Corps, 1st, Rest., @. N.
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The Eighth Regiment G.. v, hold their
eleventh reunion on the 18th, of September
at New Hartford. A special invitation is ex.
tended to all veterans, to meet with the
Eighth. ass I'll I
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