The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1903-09-02
IMPORT
QUEER
DRINKS
of Dollars
Worth of Strange
IntOXicannS
More Than Seven Thousand
Brands, Valka the Dead
lieSt but Pnlque out
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) ing drinks out Of the ordinary, the pee
pie Of the United States paid out SIS
: 100000 in the year 1892 in import dr
ties, a far greater amount than eve
before known in the history Of tn
government. says the Kansas Cit.
Star.
Treasury officials state that this in
crease is not due to the fact tha
Americans are an Incorporate people
but the increasing foreign population
has brought with II the thirst for III,
drinks CT the countries Of its nativity
In every port CT entry from New
York 70 San Francisco can be fount
samples OF thousands OF foreign alco
holic beverages, more than sever
thousand different brands OF legally
recognized intoxicants coming from
almost every section Of the known
world. France and the United King
dom supply by far The larger quaint.
ties. the formers dringables costing
US nj duties last year S6.S50 900 and
the latter's s2.214,O 900. while Germany
came next with S3,345. 600: Spain fol.
lows with S67S.0l4; Italy. S471 1852;
Canada. S397,443; Austrla.Hungary
s325Oi3; Japan. S246,4S7; Belgium.
S2O0,207; Portugal, sac 537; Nsther.
lands. Sis, 500; British West Indies.
s60,3l2 and the other countries drop
until the Britioh East Indies bring up
in the rear with only 81, which Is IS
less than the Philippine islands.
How the stun Comes.
Tho nuld reaches those ports in all
kinda Of casks and bottles, and even
insheep and goatskin receptacles-
the kind spoken OF In the Bible. But
the Gentle glass end casks have
forced tho skin bottles out OF the
market save pn occasional import OF
the wines OF Jerusalem for religious
purposes. These Include the Jerusa.
lem brandy. honey wine and Passover
wine, and the GOV ernment's sample"
gives II cs their hxcd opinion that
every brand Is Of poor quality. The
orthodox rdbbis aad their faithful
Hooks do not thi.k they could get
along very VOL without the wines
rom Jerusalem for their religious oh.
ieryances. and the skin bottles will
10 come. The wines have
muddy appearance and are thick
Ind unpleascnt 10 tnste and have no
'hance CT becoming popular with
Americans.
Volka or volky comes IN great Quan.
iities from Ruoaia. but about the same
kind OF drink can be he'd at any time
by drinking the deadly cpirlts used I'm
llcohol Temps In this country. Volka
may suit the Muscov,tc for the dead
Of Water but II Is too snappy and
hery for this climate the stun Is In
the same class as some OF the wet
goods imported from Mcxico-pulque
and mooccl. The former Is sweet
ish-sour beer, and Is made from
rank cactus. and is everything but
pleasant TO the palate. II Is a sort
Of liquid Limburger cheese. Mescal
Is distilled from the pulquc, and Is
a rank and corrosive liquor II Is a
primo favorite with Mcxicans, Iidnans
and halfbreods,
Liquid Llmburser.
lntcxicants that arc horrible both
60 no-tril md pSlsAs ere imported from
Centrcl end South America. Casasha.
or white cene rum, is several degrees
worso than nny d-ilk ever produced
In the nultod Slstes, II the interior
or Porto Rico, Jsmelca and Brazil IL
is made In lSrge qm nt,tiea end sold
for loss than common cider I'm this
country.
An 'mmcNoe orr;y OF curious stimu.
lants como from TIE far East-China
Japan end Java. The Oriontals pey.
or hsvo learned 10 mako efferyescent
beverages but Outside OF this they
know as much abou. formenting and
disulling as do the Americans. IN
some re1pects they have gone farther
and utilized almost every vegetable
from which juice OF fluid can he ex.
tr;eted, A parallel would exist n
Americans made waiaky from oats
buckwheat and rice. aud wine from
watermellons, cantsloupSS and pump.
kins. The government classes tbesa
Eastern liQuosa 'ptc wines strcne
LIQUORS eordials ard medicines" None
are very bad 10 trste, yet none are
very at,'octivc-iust about on an av.
orage with fluids sold over the general
run OF American wet goods empori.
ums. "a
Counterfeit Everything.
hamboig anr RgsmeR manufactur.
ers are adopts IN adrl,eratinr ana
eonuterfSlting The hleso. brands M
wines and all Kinds OF drinks There
'are good profits IN eouaserfeiting the
hiehe, class wines Every port OF
shpy Ia TIE United stntes receives
oVsos N'aes' strong liquors. cordlals.
essential oils and navorire extrarts
from these shrewd m,,ipuiators hns
AZ tho same time immense auanti.,ss
OF genuiac stun comes fgom the same
pieces.
ScaScinsyians temporarily residing
In America keep alive their love a,
home and pleasure BY drinking reJ
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