The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-07-07

with a square cut out of the center. He
explains that this square was cut out to
reduce the weight to that of nickel.
The vendors guarantee goes with each
sale that these pieces of steel will work
any nickel-in-the-slot machine in the
market.
The season there has been a great de-
mand among the bibulously- inclined for
novelties in the line of mixed drinks.
The ''barkeep' has been at his wits end
to supply this ever increasing thirst, but
somehow or othe rhe is managing to do
It. Here is another production of a
prominent uptown miNologist. 1t is the
''currant shrub or. if you are short of
breath from having said Lets have an
other too often, just call it plain
shrub" 1t is the very latest in the
drinking line, and it can be constructed
'unquenchable thirst" 1t all depends
upon how to order it. The pleasant de-
coction is manufactured by adding Il
small glass of whisky or brandy to a
fourth glass of currant juice, the glass
being we'll filled with Clipped ice. Fill
with carbonic and sweeten to taste, but
don't indulge in too many. All intOxi-
eating beverages are dangerous. in this
too hot weather.
The problem confronting the skilled
barkeeper is the connection of satisfy
ing hot-weather drink, into the manu-
facture of which no alcohol enters. One
of the brotherhood ut the Fifth Avenue
hotel has solved it. He calls the solution
an egg-lime-mint-ade, and it tastes as
good as it's name. The deed is done in
this way: A little cracked ice into which
the juice of two carefully-selected lines
10 H.. f,,IS
cieus quantity; one egg broken and
dropped in and all shaken together; the
product strained into a large goblet and
filled up with settler or carbonic water;
the top covered with cracked ice into
which three stalks of mint with the stems
crushed are stuck temptingly: suspi-
cion of nutmeg, and possibly strawber-
ry or two resting f1irtatiously on the ice
bergs. The mixture is a pale yellow, a
through which it is conveyed to the sys-
TEN. The consumption of this decoction
causes rapture.
The trials of an artist are many and
sore, but the Tribune tells of the expert
ence of one young New Yorker who
earns scanty living with his pencil and
brush, which has it's ludicrous side also.
Though his heart is true to art for
and food make necessary an occasional
resort to trick painting. at which he is
clever; and liquor dealer who was
about to open new and extensively
decorated saloon gave him an order for
something that will put the laugh on
fresh customer" Design, size, etc, were
left wholly to the artist; price not to ex-
coed $75; acceptance subject to approval.
The artist cudgeled his brains for a
time, and then, procuring small, rough
deal box, about II inches long and 6
inches wide, spread his canvas on the in
side of the bottom of it and painted
thereon about a half-pint of broken pea
nut shells and handful of whole pea
nuts. He executed the work so we'll
that when the box, which had no cover,
was set on table or bar and tilted back
against the wall the temptation for
man fond of peanuts to reach into the
box for one was almost Irresistible, and
the artist tried the trick upon some of
his own friends with success before TAX
ing it to the liquor dealer.
He asked $50 for it, and felt that the
money was as good as in his pocket, but
to his intense disgust the man of spirits
would not accept it, and when pressed
for his reason would give no satisfactory
explanation. A friend of the artist, who
had the confidence Of the rumseller, I'M
dertook to find ont. "They were too
natural altogether. said the art patron,
'and some Of my customers who do not
care for the peanuts seeing the box
standing ut the end Of my bar, might go
away undeceived and think was selling
peanuts. That would never do. Now,
If it had been some rare tropical fruit,
or even burnt almonds, that might so,
but peanuts, never; not in this high
toned place-they are too cheap"