The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-18


leaves and anise. 1t tastes somethire, IH
kummel, but is harsher. more n,,so ilNe
ana penetrating. 1t is an ara9GeHt
| taste on the part of those who liz ~
The beers of Norseland are ronori ~ IL
good. They seem to be cIarldad a,1y
shavings OF fir spruce and larch a. Wl'n
nave suggestion if not percentibIo el'Vy
f1aVor OF the pine forests about then, T Tuo'
are clear, sparkling and apparentII hny
pody enough to serve as LIQUID food w
the Danish corn whisky the less soj5 VI
better. 1t reeks with fusel oil ana ne 'Ae
a Vapor that will give a stranger mus mus
acne in few minutes. Swedish n,,r 11Si'
just as good as the corn juice is had -
Is mild, sweet and royalty odoro,,- II
ture of anack, sugar, lemon orao-s. NIX
other equally delightful havors IT, ana
been popular with the Scandinavia FAY
nearly two centuries. Most of VIII i0r
imported goes to New York Cbioo Is
minneapolis, st. Paul, Omaha ana ~
luth: Though an admirable sum-
drink little or none of it ever gets sonts
of Mason and Dixon's line SouA
Russia sends us volka or vodl,, ~,
importation is utterly gratuitous a. Ine
pody can enjoy the stuff who will drir
the impure or deadly spirit used in C''lk
hol lamps. To the Muscovite il mo-. % LE
good thing, but in this country it's ,so.
unpardonab le NSe ID
DesiueS the exquisite wines which ba,
made that land famous Hungary, saas
us slivovitsch, or Magyar MIN b, aeius
1t is made from a peculiar va,jat,,
that fruit which is found only in cas.., VI
parts of the Austrian empire and tbo'rA
strong and fiery to the last degree is no!
so very disagreed BILE to the to1pue N.
a faVorite ttpple, not only with the Ena'
sarlans' put also with the people of SIN
running Iahds, including the Bohemians
~ Hyo1 lo,
oefVlans. In one variety of sliVovitecb
the plum stones are used as well as mo
fruit. The result contains an annreciobio
haVor OF prussic acid similar to what 81
tains in Ktrsch-W asser, marascbino ON,
creme de noyau. ''A
ASIA Minor is a steady customer at tho
American custom house. Although 1t has
sent a small army Of Greeks. Armeniane
Syrlans and half-breeds to these sb1res
it takes them into no account when il
ships us alcoholic goods. These are nros
duced almost exclusively for the use of the
chlIdren or Israel, and more especiallv
1or those who once dwelt in the Slavonic
Islands, but are now true-blue citizens
OF the New World For centuries this
trade has endured, one year rising high
In prosperity and another falling into ths
abyss of bankruptcy. The orthordox Jew.
no matter how poor, wants some of the
wines and liquors of the Holy Land, and
is willing to pay for them regardless of
either quality or price.
AT rare intervals wine is sent over in
the bottles" referred to in the Scrip
lures, tough skins, which in turn are
carefully boxed. The Gentle cask and
glass bottle, however, have pretty nearly
driven the sheepskin and goatskn vessels
out of the market. The wet goods" Of
Judea and its neighboring territory are
Jerusalem wine, Jerusalem brandy, honey
wine, and Passover wine. Judging from
the supplies of the custom house, the
Oriental is a poor hand at viticulture. If
things were no better eighteen centuries
ago, 1t Is hard to understand how ST. Paul
could recommend "a little wine for the
stomach's sake but it is very easy to
realize how hideously drunk Noah must
have been If he used a similar intoXcant.
The wine is thick, muddy, coarse, very
like the homemade vintages of old New
England housewives. 1t has rich bou-
quet and flavor suggestive of Tokay and
Muscatel
The brandy is no better than the wine
1t is made from plums or prunes and IS
distilled and rectifed in a way that seems
to increase the normal impurities of raw
spirit 1t is above proof, and seams the
mouth and throat as it is swallowed. The
honey wine and Passover wine are APP
parently Yarities of the same kind
of liquor. The rabbis claim that
they are produced by ferment-
ing honey of one flavor and sweeten-
ing the resulting wine with honey OF
different flavor. If the claim is truthful
there is no fear of the bee ever becom-
ing the rival of the grape OF the many
honey wines and Passover wines when
come through the custom house every
one is fiat, syrupy, to put it mildly uh-
palatable.
An immens array of curious stimulants
come from the far east-China, Japan anu
Java. The Orientals never have Learned
to make effervescent beverages, but out
side of this they know as much about
fermenting and distilling as we OF west
ern barbarians. In some respects tney
have gone further and utilized alinos'
every vegetable from which prohtapls
fluid could be procured. parallel Wouu
exist If we made whisky from rice, puoA-
wheat and oats, or wine from cah'@-
loupes, watermelons and pumpkins.
There is so great a variety OF tnese
eastern liquors that the government cias-
SITES them roughly into wines, strong ny
uors, cordials and medicines. VI me-
four classes the representatives that @io
presented for sampling are all well MAUI ior,
None are bad in any regard, put W., W.
few are extraordinarily attractive lhey
average about 20 per cent. higher III quaI-
ity and palatability than the average con- yrs.
tents of first-class American par ~
wines are mainly fruit favors, "eah'
thin, but very fragrant. Those from d.
monds, roses and tea are the best. -.
The strong liquors are numberless' a.
rack, sald, sam, sui, ung-ka-peh, no-lna
dhado, and bak-no- -shaio are the nv. nv.
common. These are distilled from VIZ W.
from rice, palm starch. yam starch M ,n
let, and other farinaceous substances, az az
colored or colored with caramel ana 10
vored with simple or compounded VeBe'as
BILE extracts. They are not so strons o1
our hard liquors, nor, according 10 PEE
pie who have used them in the east
injurious to the system. The cordials az,
similar to our own. but not so sweet a.,
heavy. The medicinal wines ana liq .a',t,
bear a strong resemblance TO the ,5n,
ters." 'tonics," and the like with Wn.v VIZ.
the shelves of our drug stores are Crow
ed This is especially true with prepst,nr
tons of ginger, peppermint opium s"'
seng, and gentian. .ses
THIS hong list of intoxicants pao9
through the custom house, leaving sap hs
pies in the appraisers office ana III ,i s
laboratory of the governments chein .bs
and then passes to the people Oh
United States who come from the lanus ,,e.
which they are manufactured. The Naa,r
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