1869 Drinking Cups and their Customs (Mixellany)

COTS AND THEIB CUSTOMS,

gown trimmed with, silver braid, and "bearing in Ms

hand a silver wand. A Latin, grace is then chanted,

and the Prebend presents the boy with a shilling, who,

having placed the cups on the table, marches out of the

room, accompanied by the verger. The cups are then

passed down each side of the table, and qnaffed by each

guest in succession to an appropriate toast.

For the

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sensation-drinks

which have lately tra-

velled across the Atlantic we have no friendly feeling;

they are far too closely allied to the morning dram,

with its thousand verbal mystifications, to please our

taste; and the source from which

eye-openers

and

"smashers" come is one too notorious to be wel-

comed by any man who deserves well of his country;

so we will pass the American bar, with its bad brandies

and fiery wine, and express our gratification at the

poor success which

Pick-me-ups/'

Corpse-revivers/*

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Chain-lightning/* and the like have had in this

country.

HINTS TO CUF-BBEWERS.

THEBE are certain things to be observed in the com-

pounding of cups, which, though patent to every ntan^s

common sense, we may be pardoned for mentioning.

When a drink is to be served hot, never let the mixture

boil, but let the heat be applied as gently as possible: