Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1907-07-08
Whisky and Its ORIGIN.

LIE worn WHISKY Is VI lIlSu oIISlAs
Indeed, the Irish claim that whisky it.
self is of Irish origin and, moreover,
that the Irish taught the Scotch people
how to make whisky. AS for the
name, it springs from the Irish word
uisgue, which means water. The dis
titled spirit was called by, the Irish in
ancient times uisgue betha, or life CIV
ing water. Distillation is a process
said to have been known to the Ara
bans in remote ages, but the first au-
thor to speak of it explicitly-and he
speaks of it also as a recent discovery
was chemist who lived in the thir-
teenth century, Aronaldus de Villa No
va. Nova deemed distillatiOn to be the
UNIVERSAL panacea which all ages had
sought for in vain.
The cry of modern degeneration"
was raised even in those farOff days,
and a pupil of Nova, one Raymond
Lully of Majorca, acclaimed distilled
water as a divine emanation, declaring
that it was destined to revive the en-
ergies of modern decrepitude." This
summation of all things in the brain
of Lully. 1t heralded even the end Of
the world.-Chicago Chronicle.
A Literary Treasure.
One of the most entertaining pas.
sages in Lockers volume of reminis
cences describes his search for
Shakespeare First Frolic" in perfect
condition. He ended by buying a splen-
did copy, lacking only the leaf with
Ben JOnson's verses. with the under
standing that the seller would before
long get him the missing leaf Locker
by the way, had an amusing expert
ence with a country squire who had a
folio with the verses and without the
title page and who resolutely refused
to dispose of the precious leaf Some
years after" says the poet. 1.-The dealer
who sold me my Shakespeare 1929
was at print sale, and he CHANGED to
hear man in the crowd of buyers say
that a friend of his had the precious
leaf of verses--it was pasted into an
old scrapbook! that he had been
told it was worth ESQ or f1OO. It has
ended in my becoming the possessor of
this leaf for the larger sum. So sup
pose may now consider my Shake
speare is perfect" Then the enthusiast
deprecatingly adds, Zone hundred
/ pounds seems a large sum for single
mutilated leaf, but sensible people
have paid more than that for black
tulip or blue ribbon"
Wanted More Room.
A man who was doing his best to
| convince the world at large and him
self in particular that he was perfect
| ly sober tried to purchase a theater
seat and was tod that there was only
standing room. He bought an admis-
sion ticket and made another one of
the crowd standing up in the back
watching the show After few min
utes he returned to the window and
gravely handed over another dollar
Gimme mother standing ticket" he
said thickly. Il want more room to
Joseph Weber in Bohemian Mag
azine
The Greatest Volcanic Eruption.
1t is generally agreed that the great
est recorded volcanic eruption was that
of Mount Krakatoa. near Java, in 1888
Among other things, the eruption ere
ated dust finer than any rock can be
ground by man, and this dust foated
around in the air in visible quantities
for three years. The eruption was
heard 5000 miles away and broke Win
dows 100 miles from the crater. It
threw tidal wave 100 feet high a dis
lance of five miles inland and caused
air waves that circled the earth.-New
York American.
Very Sto1t Lady (watching the lions
fed)-'Pears 20 me, mister, that amt i
very big piece O meat for sech an an
imal. Attendant with the most stu
pendous show of politeness)-I s'pose
it does seem like a little meat to you
ma'am, but it's enough for the lion
Household Words.
Beethoven could play from memory
all the preludes and fugues contained
In Bach's well Tempered Clavichord.
, There are forty-eight preludes and the
same number of fugues, and as each is
in the most abstruse style Of counter
point the difficulty of this performance
will be appreciated by musicians.
vicar-I am so glad your dear daugh-
. ter is so much better. / was greatly
pleased to see her in church this morn
/ ing and shortened the service on pur-
pose for her. Mother of Dear Daugh-
l ter-Thank you, vicar. l shall hope to
q bring her every Sunday now London
Punch.