The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-04-12
CATS ARE NOT USELESS.
The English Beer Committee Tests
Good and Had Drinks by Pussy's
Extremely Resistant Qualities.

From the London Telegraph.
At the last meeting of the beer materials
committee, the. Earl of Pembroke and
Montgomery presiding, Mr.. Philip Sch-
drowitz said that a beer brewed from sub
stitutes is not the same article as a beer
brewed from all-malt alone, and that some
of the substitutes introduce substances in
to the beer which are certainly foreign to
it. The general idea of the food and drug
act was that a person should obtain
that which he required and expected to
get but these Substitute beers" were not
beers" and ought not to be sold as such.
German brewers did not agree with the
views of English brewers with regard to
the English mode of brewing from English
barley, but that did not show that the
English views were Incorrect, and il was
a fact that, while 100000 gallons of for
eign beers were imported into Germany in
1886. only 100000 gallons were Imported
into this country. and that the export of
beer from the United Kingdom was nearly
900 gallons in excess of that exported
from Germany. That showed that English
beer Is rather a popular drink, and is
widely appreciated; but then 1t should be
remembered that the beer which was so
largely exported was made by firms which
do not brew with substitutes.
He thought that the hop substitutes were
absolutely prohibited in the whole of Ger
many as we'll as In Bavaria. He attributed
the sobriety of the German people partly
to the character Of the beer and partly to
the manner in which they drank. Germans
did not go to a bar and get some beer and
drink 1t down, and then rush out again.
as people do here but they sit down and
have a sip and talk, and then another sip,
and so on. Asked as to what age the Ger
mans gave up drinking beer. witness re-
piled: II cannot tell you that; you find
babies and very old people drinking beer
in Munich"
Some years ago Hamburg sherry was In
very great vogue In London, but not in
Germany The Germans sent beer to Eng
land with salicyclic acid, but they may
not sell that beer over in Germany It
was an interesting fact that the represen-
tative of the largest makers of salicylc
acid In the world had told him that their
English sales would fall off by a quarter
II the use of salicylic acid i'm the manu-
facture of beer were prohibited. In consid
ering whether the substitutes were direct
ly injurious to health, I'm conjunction with
Dr. Tunnichffe he had examined the eff
fects of resdues OF brewing sugars and
regidues of all-malt beers on cats In some
of the cases where residues of brewing SUI
CARS were administered 70 cats, either act
ual vomiting or retching was caused with
in frem half an hour to an hour. and in
two cases slight ataxia was produced. Sew
en- experiments were conducted with the
residues of all-malt beers. the cats hav-
ing been from eighteen TO twenty hours
without food. The substitutes were intro
duced into the stomach IN the afternoon
OF one day. and the next morning all the
cats were found TO be quite normal, no
symptoms OF any kind having been OBJ
served meanwhile. The cat was chosen
for these experiments for two reasons, first
because II is a carnivorous animal, and.
secondly, because IL Is extremely resistant,
the latter characteristic rendering IL prob
able that the effects following the admin
istration Of the residues were minimal and
not maMmaL He thought that further In
vestigation IN this direction was necessary.