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THE MIXICOLOGIST.
There is all the difference in the world between the
two beverages, says a writer in the · New York World.
They are made, in the first place, o'f different materials.
Beer being a sparkling beverage, is heavily charged in
the process of fermentation with carbonic acid gas,
while whiskey is quiet, and, in this respect, inoffensive.
Beer contains very little alcohol in proportion to the
.
whole quantity of fluid , sometimes but four percent,
while whiskey contains from forty to fifty percent. Beer
is therefore largely made up of water. Whiskey has
very little water in its composition. Beer has a "bead,''
while whi skey has none. Beer is liable to
s~ oil ·
unless
kept cold. Whiskey will keep at any temperature.
Adulterated beer is, without question, much more
unhealthful than pure beer made of hops and malt, but
when the healthfulness of any sort of beer is compared
with whiskey, it is not so much the ingredients of the
beer that enter into the question as the general character
of the liquid, and the effect of great quantities of it on
certain organs, especially the liver, the kidneys, and the
bladder.
A man who habitually drinks beer takes a much
greater quantity of liquid into his system than·one who