Omaha daily bee., 1895-11-24
NEWEST KIND OF "JAG."
Candies Filled with Booze FAD
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Among New Workers..
| Where there's will there's way to
| beat around a law and confound those who
attempt to enforce it. Bogus watermelons
| filled with booze and imitation bibles with
a loaded flask, not to mention hoes-in-the-
wall, bootleggers, and other devices, are fa-
| mliar relics of prohibition days in Kansas
| and Iowa before the drug stores came to the
rescue Of the drouth-stricken. The enforce
ment of the Sunday law in New York has
not reduced the residents to these expedients,
but various methods are adopted to alleviate
the wants of the suffering. The latest is
candy drops filled with whisky and brandy.
The steady drinking man who is not on
| good terms with the bartender on the corner,
says the New York World finds in these
whiskyized candies The next best method Of
getting around the Roosevelt restrictions. He
gives the wink to his druggist receives q
little box and goes home equipped against
dry Sunday.
The confectionery stores are reapng rich
harvest. Although they have no license 10
sell liquor, they do not fear any trouble from
what, at first glance, may seem to be
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 every excuse for interfer-
ence as soon they have read this article.
A World reporter bought rye whisky bon
bons at two places in Broadway last Sunday
and at one place in Columbus avenue, nsar
| SeVenty-beCOUu Street. ne ulsO DOuRnl UTdHuy
in bonbons at two places. In two pounds OF
this mixture of whisky and candy was enough
Intoxicating liquor to produce decided
feeling"
The chocolates put up with whisky in them
were not put on ea!e in this city until two
weeks ago. Since then the demand for the
article has been great.
Brandy drops were made years and years
ago on a small scale, but MOI until the screws
were put on Sunday drinking did the whisky
alya 10 N uybi glu lrnr
Is not different In appearance from the old
time chocolate or brandy drop and Is about
the same size. At some of the shops II IL
covered with plain chocolate, while at the
more stylish places it is wrapped in tin and
gold foil.
In some of its forms 1t is composed OF a
little jug made of crystalzed sugar, into
which the liquor is squirted with syringe.
Then the small opening is plugged with
sugar and dpped in boiling chocolate and
laid out on boards to dry The foil is put on
to hold the compound together in case 1t ID
exposed to damp atmosphere.
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 a pound OF chocolate drops there are
eighty pieces. Each piece weighs ninety-fye
grains, Troy weight. After drop is broken
and the whisky Is poured out there are found
ffty-fve grains OF sugar and chocolate and
forty grains of whisky Counting eighty
drops TO the pound, there are 5000 grains OF
whisky in each pound box OF the new mix
ture
A half-pn of good rye whisky weighs 1886
gains. Thus in each pound OF chocolate
whisky drops there Is a half-pint Of whisky,
less fifty five grains
Bartenders say the average New Yorker
does not pour out more than one-sixth OF a
half-pint for drink. According TO this
there are abou. six average drinks OF whisky
In every pound Of the new candy.
There is gallon of whisky. according to
the statement OF a manufacturer, In every
sixteen and half pounds OF this candy. Tho
price of the candy, of course. depends on the
quality Of tie brandy. Some pound boxes
cost 80 cents. others cost 60 cents
Diluted opium is mixed with chocolate
drops In China and In New Orleans factory
has been making abslnthe drops for the past
fvo years.
They Were Costly Birds.