Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-11-02
ButtermlIk For Whisky.

The taste Of the tipping public in
"mixed drinks" and even in downright
liquors, undergoes some curious r1uta-
tons, like fashionable taste in the mat
ter Of colors and styles; but heretofore
the drinks have all contained alcohol,
whatever new name was invented tor
them. A more welcome change from
bad to good Cor more singular one) has
seldom cone to our knowledge than the
preference lately developed for butter
milk as substitute for old fire wa
ters.' This applies chiefly to moderate
drinkers who patronlzs bars, not TO the
drunkards; but the sign seems hope al
one in the direction of sobriety aud al
stlnence.
A reporter Of the Philadelphia Times,
in repiy,tOsinouiries about the prevailing
su'nu,er drinks, learned the following
facts from a saioon-keeper.
";Several years ago there sprung up a
rage for weiss beer, q wisFy- washy sort
of a drink. About fifty Germans went
into the business. You could get q
schooner Of ia tall glass. big enough
its day, and then catoe ginger ale and
Apoilnaris, and aner that brown stout
and "hal -a!.d-half." Now there is a
strong demand for buttermilk. Yes, j.
is queer drink n bar-room; but it
has several recommendations A man
might drink barrel of it if he con!d,
without getting tipsy. He wouldn't
raise the neiyhborhcod shouting and
singing. He wouldn't want to hight all
the fellows in the night-car, or beat his
wit when he got home.
But only small proportion of the
production of the diaries is absorbed by
the bar room trade. On Bridge avenue,
above Broad street, is the principal dis
tr;buting depot, where the product Of
the gentle Jersey and Alderney herds of
nu nber Of renowned dalrymen are
disposed of. 'The demand runs the
VIII oieyear round for buttermilk," SAID
an attenant at the dairy. elm the
winter time it is only about one half
what it is now. If it were very hot now,
as it was few weeks ago, We would
sell one thousand quarts d day. In
this sort 70 weather we are vending
seven hundred to eight hundred quarts.
II depen:s altogether on the tempera-
ture to increase the demand and sale.
1--WE have many customers to whom
t is served by the advice of their physi
dyspepsia and kidney diseases. We
have several doctors who buy and drink
it by the glass themselves. One physi-
clan has sent over twenty customers
here, and all have declared themselves
benefited by the beverage. -
81 don't think the Irish are the prin-
cipal purchasers We sell great deal
by the quart, probably about half we
dispose Of The Germans appear to be
better customers than the Irish, who
have always been noted buttermilk
drinkers. The Germans find that but
termilk is as good as beer, which it is
superceding. I never questioned any
Of those who bought it by the glass, but
have heard it well spoken as remedy
in d 'sspep sia, and even dyseptery."
This healthier taste on the part Of
those who crave stin1ulants is by no
means tickle whim of the season, but
has been growing for five years past.
The sWinging screen-doors of scores of
abar-rooms are ornanented with the le-
gend, ''Ice-coid huttprmiik," and all day
long those who qutf the beverage pass
in. and wet their throats and 60 decor
ouslv out. - ...... In
The young husband of the ancient
Baroness Burdett-Coutts owns seventy
fishing smacks. - 4. = -.