St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-09-24
LIQUEURS.
STATISTICS as to Their ManuIact,sre-The
Consumption ar France.

STATISTICS as to Their nuIactlsre-The
Consumption IN France.
With people who really dine, as distin-
guished from those who only feed, it has be-
come the fashion to top the sherry, claret
and campagne with small glass of a mys-
FERROUS concocton, known under the gem
eric name Of liqueur, but embracing vast
variety of favor and color, from the luscious
sweetness of rich Brown curacao to the in
describable white kummel and the bitterness
of green absinthc. Held up to the light the
clear, oily liquid Of whatever color it NAV
be, with glow in the center like a bottled
sunbeam, has an appetizing and enticing
appearance which only a Good Templar
could resist, while it has knack of absorb
ing "reminiscences of all the favors that have
gone before it, which, after a. dinner of
many mixtures, is an attribute not to be
despised. Yet few of those who sip and
smack their lips over its pleasant aroma
have more than the vaguest idea of how 1t is
composed or whence it comes
When We consider how comparatively few
people ever use liqueurs, and In what small
quantities they are consumed, even by thoss
who habitually drink them, the statistics OF
their consumption is nothing less than as
founding. The Fourvoirie contains go casks
or butts some of capacity Of 9, 800 gallons,
and when all filed they are capable of hold
| ing $50, 900 gallons. The stock in bottles is
always kept up to SO, 900, aud the monthly
sale averages IL, 900 or $50, 600 year In
the Benedictine distillery, which, however,
has nothing monkish about it, save that it is
built upon the site Of the old monastery, and
/ has attached to it a curious museum of relics,
4 in rrorL-npaple ON r,1orcd etaa,,,
saws are required TO cut the wood for the
packing cases, and over 100, 900 bottles are
| annually set forth. To these number we
have to add the productions of all the Dutch
! houses, and more than all besides. that of
| the Partisan. One of these Partisan firms.
the largest in the trade, always
keeps in stock 10000 liters of
absinthe ard over 5000 liters of Cassis
and Vermouth, besides innumerable other
preparations for which there is a small de-
mand. Each week they send out $500 bot
ties. and Paris alone takes hectoliter daily.
| to deliver this nine carts are constantly al
/ work. And these are statistics Of only one
out Of scores that carry on the same trade
The French themselves are the largest con.
sumers Of liqueurs; every restaurant, dowr
to the most humble, every pastry cook sweet
stuff, or chandler shop displays samples OF
these decoctions in their windows; even
the ouvrier does not think his dinner COM
plete without petit verve Of some cheau
abomination that goes BY that name Alb
sinthe is their chief favorite. and there IL
little doubt that much of the physical deb
line OF the Partisan is owing to excessive in.
diligence in that and other perniclous fntox-
icants Of ike kind. 1t would seem more
over, that the use Of Hqueurs is greatly on
the increase in this country, as of late years
large premises have been taken In South,
ampton for the storage Of Chartreuse. where.
it is said, ten thousand case are always kepi
on band.-Londo1p Globe.