The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1885-10-15
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gressIenai beverages.
Many OF these committee rooms ~
the ospitol contain during session
Ia choice Gticle OF spirits, and
the present minister to Berlin, air.
Pandleton, was not avsrse TO treatiak
his friends OF the Senate now and
then. Isused 10 bo that there wa =
regular bur 10 tho capitol. This bar
v IA known vulgarly as "The Hole
! in the WALL" H. WAS Bituntec
betweer the House and the
Seuate, and at II Clay sad
Wshster often drank. In doiercnCe
to the temperance sentiment THE ban
has been long since abolished, hut ~
uor is sold ~ the capitol ~ much ny
ever, ana yon can get whisky strelght
ia either the House or Senate "a siau-
rant by merely Rski0g for "co'd 'on."
Isis raid that drinking Is decreasing
AZ Was blBEton. do not belieYo ibis
10 bs 70. Fewer people drink az tbs
saloops, perhaps, but b. has come % be
that every public man has his cellars
sucked with wiues and brandisF, 2nd
liquors gro sold by tho quantity in
st,,ad of by the glass. All the grocery
stores atWashington keep large stocks
OF liquors, from Mumm's eXtrs dry
cham pagne down 10 very cheap arti-
Gle of whisky, and you VIII find wine
etorss in nearly every block. In no
city Of ths United States, except, per-
hn ps, New Orleans, is there tu much
vii drank in proportion to the popu-
lstion. Many families never sitdown
10 u me al without having wina on the
table, and at u Washington hotel,
where public men stop, 10 Is mo rule
TO takeR oyle of wine with your din
ner. within the last few Soara pnrch
has become very popular ~ Washing
ton, and YOU Will now sinu q big
punch DO vi al al most every tash'onS-
be gathering. IL is quite an art to
meke fine Washington punch, and IL
takes very little OF the regulac
81 Licle to cause tho knees 20 gu Yer aud
the bead to swim. ODereoipe contains
the INGREDIENTS, whisky, run, clarsf,
cheupagne, sugar snd lemons. A lit
No water aided 10 this, and you have a
drink that viii pu, au ol6 topar under
the to BILE after half his usual {. allowance.
S III this stuff ~ SVEN TO young men
and mhidans. Il u any wonder that
some of them get too much, and we
have such scenes VI that OF stewart
castle last winter, whom Congressman
Eolmen's son insulted young Lady,
and The half OF tho aayty were afleofed
by their tippllnl? H. was such punch
as this that stared that young RAJ
homo on spree u which he attempted
to shoot one ofth wOiters at WelcEer's,
and it IL this punch Inst will! undcubt-
ealy create scs ii or two the coming
ssssoD.
A great deal of beer is drank in
WASHINGTON, and many OF those who
drink wine regularly ut their meals
prefer a light article, such as ciaret.
The man who driuKs Light drinks, such
as beer aud clarct, seldom bscomes q
drunksrd, and in those countries
where cheap light wines ere the staple,
as Italy ana France, Tor instance, you
will fiud rauch less drunkenness than
in America or Logland:. There ls
good deol o. difference in the United
States so to drinking. Men from the
North and East ard from California
drink wine, while those from the West
and South take WHISKY ur neer. Ken
euckiang ually take whisky straight,
md Wlsconsins are iOnd OF their
own Milwaukee lager. Senator Frye
ana Blair are said To be the only Eena-
tors who are teetotallpr5. Attorney
General Garland likes good article OF
Bourbon. President Cleveland drinks
D3er Sometimes, ana OF inc mempers
OF the Lover House, TOW Of them are
avelse 20 dram on the sly. The
speaker himself is o good judge Of
luuors, aud no often takes q bottle Of
wine with his lunch. Both Cox. and
Dorsheimer like good wine, and ex-
diplomates, such $50 Hott, OF Illinois,
seldom eat without a bottle Of wine AZ
their meals, Ben LeFeyre
drinks beer, and there
are q number of members
who are addicted to drinking hot
water. There was congressman
named Jadwin in tho Forty seventh
Congress who never sat down to IS
meal without having q teacup OF hot
water placed before him. He seasoned
it with cream and sugar and drank it
as other people do coffee. Congress-
mau Hatch, OF Missouri. il also q hot
water cr.nkar, and Breckenridge, 81
AK ..neas, fakes II with every meai.
These hot Ater drinkers advocate IL
as cure for dyspepsia and indiges.
ton, anG they eey they become ~ fond
Of the drink IA Of tea. coffee or
whisky. - Washington correspond
ence Cleveland Leader.