Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-12
Some Things You Want to Know
Model License League.


people OF Paris alone drink more wine than
the entire. population OF the United states.
But Parisians drink little beer. There are
said to be over 5000 differente kinds OF in
toxicating drinks known to humanity. The
American Indians are believed to be the
only race that was found without its in
toxicants. but what they lacked in the
generations before the discovery OF
America they have made up since, contrib
uting their full share to the consumption
OF the 6O,OOO,OO0 barrels OF beer consumed
annually in the United States. The increase
in beer drinking in fifty years amounts to
1000 per cent.
The city OF Munich. famed in European
history, possesses the largest saloon in the
world. 1t supplies beer to about 1900 peo-
pie every day, and on holiday occasions as
many as 5000 quench their thirst over Its
bars. There are wooden seats without
backs for 1900. All the stems are carefully
washed with boiling water at night. and
stacked away for the next day. Before
being served each man helps himself to a
stein, takes it to a stream of water which
is kept running all the time, washes II
with such degree of care as suits his taste,
and gets It filled with a bumper from the
royal brewery which was founded by Lud-
wig the Severe. In the thirteenth century.
The profits go toward the maintenance of
the Munich hospitals.
King Edward might do a large liquor
business If he were so minded. He main
tains a dlstillery. and IL he would label
the product to show that It came from his
place, he could not begin to fill the orders
he would receive. But he makes whisky
only for the royal family. He is not much
Of a whisky drinker himself, but some of
his relatives are very fond Of the product
Of Brother Edwards still-house.
An American actress has broken the rec
ord for fancy drinking. After 1000 years
Cleopatra's concoction of vinegar and pearl
has a rival. lit happened that the owner
Of a world champion hen was a friend of
the actress, and he told her he was going
TO express her a ten-dollar egg from Kan
sas City every day for a month. OF
course such an egg could not enter into
the unseemly scrambl of a commonplace
cmelet, go another friend provided her
with a quart Of fine old sherry taken from
a Spanish monastery in the Philippines,
which was so valuable that 1t sold at auc-
ton for $500 the quart. This egg and
sherry, used as a morning appetizer, cost
SIS every day for a full month.
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guaranteed to get around all prohibition
laws. 1t is John Barleycorn in tabloid
form, the very essence of whisky impris-
oned in a little gelatine tablet. One can
take his choice. chew 1t like a cough drop
or dissolve It in a little water and drink
II. A beer tablet that will keep for six
months was invented recently, but putting
old John Barleycorn himself into a tablet
is the newest thing.
Central America probably will enter the
field as an important producer of spirit
uous liquors. Experiments indicate that q
fine quality of spirits can be made from
baranas that are unfit for shipment. Each
bunch of bananas will yield d gallon Of
spirits at a cost less than that of manu-
featuring whisky in the United States,
which would seem to indicate that distil-
leries can be made a very profitable in
vestment in banana shipping ports.
Mr.. George @. Brown, vice president Of
a local license league, is one Of the best
known distluers and wholesalers in Ken
lucky. He has been an active member of
the Presbyterian church for forty years
and has made a careful study of the Bible
in regard to the use of wine and strong
drink. Recently he compiled q type
written pamphlet giving the full text of
every verse in the Bible that contains the
words wine or, Strong drink" In the
heading the declaration is made that while
the Bible condemns intemperance, IL not
only fails to advocate prohibition, but com-
mends and commands the temperate use Of
alcoholic beverages. Some OF the verses
used to emphasize this claim are as fol-
lows:
Therefore God give thee of the dew of
heaven, and the fairness of the earth. and
plenty Of corn and wine.' Genesis
xvii, 2S.
"And for a drink offering thou shalt
offer the third part of an hin OF wine, for
a sweet SAVIOUR unto the Lord" Numbers
XIV, T..
Go thy way, eat they bread with JOY,
and drink thy wine with a merry heart,
for God now aceepteth thy works"
Ecclesiastes tx, 7.
II come into my garden. my sister, my
spouse, / nave gathered my myrrh with
my spice, 1 have eaten my honey-comb
with my honey, 1 have drunk my wine
with my milk: eat. o friends, drink. yea,
drink a~bundantly, o beloved" Song of
Sovomon vi.
Drink no longer water. but use a little
wine for thy stomach's sake and thine
often infirmities." First Timothy V, 23.
BY FREDERIC J. HAsKM.
MISUNDERSTANDING or WATCHES.