The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-24
THE NEWEST JAG"
Candies with whisky Inside Enough
TO Give You Head.
From the New YORK World.

From the New YORK World.
The very latest phase of social wicked
ness is the bonbon with a little Jag"
concealed beneath it's sugary exterior You
can get drunk on candy. With your chloe
olate creams and gum drops you can buy
whisky or brandy, and from a box of
sweets you can imbibe enough spiritus
frumenti to make you merry and give you
a head next morning.
As the innocent-looking confection dis
solves on your tongue a liquid trickles
out that has the unmistakable flavor OF
the good old stuff. That's whisky, =
you say. Whisky it is, and as it mixes
with the sugar coating that has held
1t prisoner, the combination is agreeable
to the taste.
The steady drinking man who is not on
good terms with bartender on the corner
finds in these whiskyiZed candies the next
best method of getting around the ROose-
welt restrictions. He gives the wink to
his druggist receives a little box ana
goes home equipped against dry Sum
day.
The confectionery stores are reaping a
rich harvest. Although they have no IL
cense to sell liquor. they do not fear any
trouble from what, at first glance, may
seem TO be a harmless infraction of the
law. But as young girls and boys, as
well as grown men and women are buying
the drops, The excise board will have
they have read this article
A Sunday World reporter bought rye
whisky bonbons at two places in Broad4
way last Sunday and at one place in Co
lumbus avenue, near Seventy-second
street. He also bought brandy in bonbons
at two places. In two pounds of this mix
ture of whisky and candy was enough
intoxicating liquor to produce a decided
feeling
The chocolates put up with whisky in
them were not put on sale in this city
until two weeks ago. Since then the de-
mand for the article has been great.
Brandy drops were made years and
years ago on small scale, but not until
the screws were put on Sunday drinking
did the whisky drop make its appearance
The whisky drop is not different in APP
pearance from the old-time chocolate or
brandy drop, and is about the same size
At some of the shops it is covered with
plain chocolate, while at the more stylish
places 1t is wrapped in tin and gold foil
In some of its forms 1t is composed of
a little jug made of crystalized sugar
into which the liquor is squirted with a
syringe. Then the small opening is DluRg-
ed with sugar and dipped in boiling chloe
olate and laid out on boards to dry The
foil is put on to hold the compound to-
mosphere.
People who have not bought whisky
drops, and who have no idea of the
amount of the juice of the rye contained in
them, will be surprised by the following
figures, derived from an analysis
In pound of chocolate drops there
are eighty pieces. Each piece weighs
ninety-five grains, Troy weight After a
drop is broken and the whisky is poured
out there, are found fifty-fve grains of
sugar and chocolate and forty grains If
whisky. Counting eighty drops to the
pound, there are 5000 grains of whisky
IN each pound box of the new mixture.
a haIf-pint of good rye whisky weighs
Doc grains. Thus in each pound of cho-
colate whisky drops there is a half mint
of whisky, less tifty-fve grains.
Bdrtenders say the average New York
er does not pour out more than one
sixth Of a half pint for a drink Accord
l a 10 TINS there are about six average
drinks IN every pound of the new candy
There is "A gallon of whisky accord
ing to the statement of a MANUFACTURER
in every sixteen and half pounds of this
candy. The price of the candy of course
depends on the quality of the brandy
some pound boxes cost so cents, others
cost 60 cents.
Diluted opium is mixed with chocolate
drops in China, and in New Orleans a
factory has been making absinthe drons
for the past five years. PS
The salesgirl in one Of Proadu,a,,,--
largest candy stores said:
we nave been selling wink drops.' as
we call them. for the past two weeks
ana the sale is growing every dav 7
suppose that we sell at least fifteen
pounds here a day. You have no "a
now many young fellows, schoolboys, be-
tween 10 ana Is years, buy them They
cannot buy liquor in saloons so thew b'ISy,
WHISKY drops and think they are real
Grown men purchase them too ~
sundays, especially, and say, you Wou1J
die laughing to see how embarra $50
~ SUIIo u them are when they come in
Ihey don't know exactly how to ASK for
them. and l suppose feel a bit sbamed
at buying candy for the liquor there is
we put up two classes of .winlxs,
6randIes and WHISTLES. It's hard wori,
LOT any one not in the business to tell
them apart; In fact, in their innocence
lies their charm A number of orr W.
men customers, and we have anv n,,r1-
Der Of them, have discovered the cssa
where the drops are kept and Instead ~
n inf rIrf
drops they merely point to the trav ana
say: a pound of those, please To The
ing ordinary chocolate creams.
we nave been selling brandy drons
for years without being bothered Nv ~
law, and il was only TO meet a s,,dSl AZ
demand that whisky was used IRE
idea OF a person getting intoxicated o.
brandy or whisky drops may sound f,,r, ~
put there was a girl who formerly worked
mere That ate them 10 such an evtent
that she used TO get sleepy in the ma
are on the. day. She lost her place IN
a4ecount.. of her devotion 10 HE wink