The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-11-02

the letters gr. The druggist interpreted this to mean gram. and the result was that the dose taken was big enough to kill an ordinary man. The Quinine was so weak, however, that 1t only made buzzing in the consufs ears. He com plained to the druggist and tried to have him introduce American speciaities, put so far has only succeeded as to porous plasters. The druggist says that chemi- cal products will not stand the voyage across the Atlantic. and he intimated that the French goods surpass the American.
 The American Bar.
 There is one speciality in the drug line, however, that the Frenchmen concede to he worth imitation. This Is the American drink. You see the sign American bar over one or more saloons in every con tinental city The principal hotels of Flu rope advertise American drinks, ana the genuine American bars have plenty or custom. The American. cocktail makes the Frenchman smile and he rises re- sponsively to the Kentucky high ball.
 The most of the bars, however, are frauds. They keep no American liquors and the drinks are manipulated by French bartenders who cannot speak English. The other day an American drummer dropped into one for drink
  glass of American whisky. --,
 "Comment?' said the waiter. with puzzled look on his face.
 "Bring me a Manhattan cocktail!" said the drummer. ~
 comment"
 And thereupon the drummer got angry and cursed the Frenchman for putting up an American sign, when he had no Ameri- can drinks and could not even understand American language
 There is a real American bar in Lyons and it Is the most fashionable drinking nIace in the city. It was started by New Yorker, who thoroughly unoerstoou the science of making the insidious but destructive American cocktail. and who did 1t so we'll that he has made for- tune out of the business.
 Champagne at 20 Cents Bottle.
 And still I don't see why the French should care for American liquors, when they have the best and the cheapest wines of the world. You can get good claret here by the barrel for cents quart, and champagne which Is not at all bad for 20 cents a pint or 10 cents glass A fair caret Is served in the restaurants at 16 cents a bottle, and all sorts of wines are remarkably cheap,
 This is not far from some of the chief
 
 loads of Burgundy and claret on my way from Paris to Lyons The wine was carried in tank cars. just as we carry coal oil, and some trains were composed of great hogsheads on trucks, each hogs head marked wine. l rode for miles through vineyards, every vine having it's individual stake. the whole country appa- rently growing poles about which green vines were climbing.
 Send Elevators to France.
 would advise our elevator factories to systematically work the European trade Every one here lives in flat. Lyons is a city of flats and this is so throughout the continent. Paris is gigantic bee hive of living apartments, Marseilles is all flats and so are Orleans and Bor- deaux.
 The chief cities of Switzerland have flats. In Berlin and the other places in Germany the Government prescribes the strictest of buildings regulations. There is a limit to the height of the houses and small houses cannot be built The result is the people live in apartments and not one family in a thousand has house to itself The most of the flats are of live stories and only the fewest of them have elevators This Is also true of the hotels. A vast amount of building Is going on in all of the cities ana huhureds or ne" apartment houses without elevators are being constructed. Such elevators as are made in Europe are twenty years behind the times. They are slow and stufry. The doors open the wrong way and they look more If Se seaside bath houses than modern elevators. An enormous business could be built up for our modern elevators and many of our fiat Improvements could be introduced at a profit.
 Queer Features of French Flats.
 There are many curious features in French tenement houses. The renters put