The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-07-11

pu Salli HOOK INTO It's pitch
Them to contain quite a
tery-looking liquor. This
al which is offered to Gus
PC being permitted to help
Hiuch as he likes for the
inyariable price, Maybe
ne pitchers allshut up, for
each pIishsf NJ cover that shuts down
YheAeref arf fain or dew is falling to
prevent tlAe ia aor from becoming diluted.
Now, the customers spoken Of are in
seets of all sorts-such as blue-bottle
flies, mosquitoes, cocksoaches, red ants
and so on. There is not a bug of any
sort, apparently, that has not weakness
Tor the liquor supplied BY the vegetable
whisky shop. The insect walks out on
one of the long leaves until he comes to
the end Of it, and finding there is a
quantity Of delicious drink in the pitch-
er he crawls in aud swigs and swigs at it
nptn he dies, as is supposed, of alcohol
N. AT all events he pays for his drink
18th his life and leaves his corpse in the
tcher TO sustain by its absorption the
faithful existence Of the plant. And it
Just Tor this object-to entrap Gus
pmers for food-that the plant prepares
bd places on sale its liquor. What the
bud liquor is composed Of, chemically
peaklng, attempts are now being made |
md out oy analyses. So far, is Is only 4
known that it IS a powerful and palata /
PIE intoxicant. How much the insects I
Fnjoy it you can perceive by looking in
~ the rsU=11are ,,~1a-,, -, .-.--rI r.
p each Ueeptaele hundreds of bugs of
~ descriptions. another form of veg
Fable whisky shop has lolg, perpendic-
silar trumpet-shaped receptacies for the
liquor, with the wide end Of the trum-
pets at the top, where the bugs are ex-
pected to crawl in. And when YOU tear
open one Of these trumpets-it may b, a
foot or more in length-after it has sur
'F1yed Its usefulness and dried M Won will 4
siz's'.l.y sl1l ssssvss-Frofi ONO efSf 20 me
pther with flies and ants and such things. {
Z 1t has recently been discovered-snd S
heTein lies the expected usefulness Of the
fnvestlgation now going on regarding
Shese plants-that different vegetable
IEhisky shops, like their prototypes on
Che city streets, have different classes Of {
customers. One kind of these shops is /
irequented almost exclusively BY cock a
beaches, Tor whose reception unusually c
large pitchers are provided-the pIant !
carrying them looking as If it had sus I
pended from the ends Of its strong leaves v
lot Of small bath-tubs Another kind. il
Fith pitchers that resemble in appearance l
great big beans, IS frequented only bv u
ted ants; and still another kind IS pat o
fonized By slugs, and has the rims of
Is pitchers armed with teeth to delay
guests who might wish to depart. So il
would appear that these whisky shops r
,ould be propagated for use IN destroy h
ng such enemies of the household and ~
ne garden, and it IS proposed to find out ii
low far such thing may be practicable. tn
hereis no difiiciiitr- ---vc-----s- re-sr- I on
ase-.ss'sa maintaining the plants, which / n,
re not tropical exoties, but natives of n
BE region about Washington, and readily 81
IN any temperate climate. III
Quite as interesting in It's way as the IN
hisky shop is the vegetable beer saloon Of
'terred to atthe beginning Of this arti- cr
c. In general appearance it resembles IN
ie whisky shop strongly, but It's pitchers We
e wider at the mouths and have no tops of
them Thus the liquor dispensed BY wa
e beer saloon Is diluted more or less bv he
c dews and rains, so that II IS not very eat
toxicating- However, the drink is in tn
7ded-to attract the insect customers. vii
q nos to poison them. Patrons. crawl ma
& into the.pitchers, take drink. and. cit,
thons feeling It 90 to theikheads veryI cat
.eh. start tR2Sslk out agz =. ,ls17''7
- <sprogress fri
ssetlIe., 1sauIlIpaali. 2-dmbles back GO
the d1sfszs sse1sEniserahl drowned. so
81 IS tbeSS ~ vegetable beer saloon pil
frtures its cestomers-by drowning Al