St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-09-19
POEMS IN COCKTAILS.
Drinks Which Make Man Feel Like
King.
Fancy Throat Ticklers and How They
Are Prepared.

No ordinary ''rounder," but an interna
tional rounder who has drank muscatel IN
Mexico, vodka in st. Petersburg, curacao
in Peru, beer in Baden, rum in Jamaica ana
''stone fences in New York; who has be-
gun spree in Egypt and endedit in China,
and who has stopped at countries instead
Of counters to get drink, says liiat
in the world, as far as has been discovered,
there are 1000 mixed drinks. Of these any
expert bartender can make 100 otthand, LOT
not more than 100 different kinds OF mixed
drinks are ever called for in the city. VI
the 100 drinks twelve are in popular and
perennial demand.
The reason that mixed drinks are popular
is that ordinary whisky goes down tip
piers throat like burning Goals ana
scorches his vest and makes his toes tlngle
and burns the SoleS of his shoes. Now, II
the ariStocratc bartender takes this same
whisky and mixes it up with four or I'VE
cOrdials and puts in dash OF this ana
spray Of that it makes an agreeable drlpk
and glides down ones throat as smoothly as
a Morris & Essex canal boat glldeS across
the Jersey meadows Even old drinkers
drink rye with wry face. Whisky IS pal
atable to very few people except when the
alchemy of the bartender has transmitted
forty-rod Jersey lightning into mixed
drink.
1t is supposed that mixed drinks were in
vented by Jerry Thomas, whose monument
is Tom and Jerry-a memorial more lasting
than the pyramids and which the enviouS
tooth of time cannot destroy. Mr.. Thomas
used to lie awake nights studying up new
drinks, and he used to spring half dozen
new drinks on his customers every day IN
the year. He would experiment with MS
new drinks on people who hung the bar
up" so if they died there would be no loss
of business.
All his drinks were eminently success
full. and the 12S mixed drinks invented
by him are SO many poems. He was a
successful man Of letters, and Is
the author of the "Bartenders'
Guide,'' which is concise and clear in style,
and shows vast amOut OF erudition. 1t Is
familiar book in every saloon i'll the coun-
try and is daily read with increasing delight
by every bartender.
Some of the most popular mixed drinks
are the ST. John fZZ, the Murphy milk
punch. the Neal Dow flip, the silver fizz.
the gold fizz, the morning glory tiZZ. the
Gen. Harrison egg-nOg, the Madagascar
sangaree, the John Collins. the whisky
sour the brandy smash, the mintjulep, the
sherry flip, the vermouth cocktail, the Man
haitian cocktail. the champagne cocktail,
the gin cocktail. the whisky flip. the milk
punch. the golden slipper, the blue blazer
and the stone fence.
Some of these mixed drinks are very elab-
crate. For instance the punch la Bru-
rit fhn
nobility, is composed of three bottles OF
claret, two-thirds of pint of curacao, one
pint of sherry, one pint OF brandy, two
wine glasses Of ratafia OF raspberrleS, three
oranges and one lemon in slices, sprigS OF
green balm and borage. two bottles OF self
ger water and three bottles of soda water.
When you get all these rare things in your
punch it is not yet made, for you have to
stir it and sweeten it and let it stand al
hour, and then strain it and ice it well.
A drink which is so common as the YER
mouth cocktail is made as follows: Three
fourths glass of shaved ice, four or five
dashes of gum, one or two daSheS OF angoS-
tura, two dasheS of maraschino, one glass
of vermoHth.
The formula for making the famous Chat:
ham Square sour is as follows:
Fusil oil.
Chickweed bitters.
Dash of corn whisky.
Squeeze potato peel.
Sprinkle with Paris green.
Serve bot.
The ''golden slipper" is so named be-
cause the colored people like to wear it and
| because when they have taken this drink
/ they feel as if they were climbing the COLDER
stairs. The Gen. Harrison egg-nOg re-
ceives its name from the fact that it con-
| tains cider. The morning glory tizz con-
tains Scotch whisky and a dash OF alb
sinthe.
The most successful new drink is the
Madagascar sangaree, invented by one OF
the most popular bartenders of New York,
Mr.. David Stern, who claims that he got
tt receipt from retired king of NADIA
gascar. The drink is said to be nectar. iii
for the gods on Olympus.
A new mixed drink is said to be made as
| follows:
Sulphuric acid.
Fusil oil.
Dash of alcohol.
Spirits of turpentine.
uSprig of parsley.
41e Turnip peel.
| .. s--e % Slice OF new potato
Drink warm.
Onerof the latest and most insidious
drinks was recently introduced into swell
saloons in this city by an Englishman. L
| consists of three parts sherry and one par
| vermouth. 1t is called Bamboo" proba
bly, because after imbibing the drinker feel!
| like raising Cain"
THE WEST.
! o no for the West. the boundless West,
Where pastures and creeds are broad;
Where the breeze is tonic that thrills thu
breast.
Blown straight from the hills of God!
The East is a land of dead mems bones,
| Laid tier on modering tier;
| Ard the damp malarial wind that means
| Is the breath of those dead men near.
| And its slow, pale people seem merely wraith
| That have Strayed away from the tomb,
| Clutching their cold ancestral faiths
And wrapped in the garments of gloom.