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Flag your own t rain. Too many arn asleep at the switch.
Stick to one thing 'till you get there; tllat's what makes postage stamps
valuable.
'fhe disasters which happened to- a uew saloon.keeper's customers: One
of them said, "I will pay you on Saturday night,
if
I live." He's dead. Another
said, "See you to-morrow." He's blind. Still another said, "I hope to pay
you this week or go to hell." He's gone.
A. San Jose, Cal., saloonman displays a beautifully gilded sign behind his
bar which reads as follows: "We can treat all the p eople some of the time,
we can treat some of the people all the time, but we can't treat all the people
all the time.-With apologies to Abe J;incoln."
A timely volume on "Warm Weather Drinks" is issued by McSplw·g
&
Co.
.b'or an informal afternoon party "Bath House Fizz" will be found delightful.
To a keg of beer add a bottle of tobasco sauce, the juice of 250 lemons, 50
pounds of sugar and a quart of wood alcohol. Carefully peel two raisins,
mince them fine and sift over the mixture. Add thirty s.eidlitz powders and
serve while it fizzes.
N. B.-'fhe author has ncYer trierl this recipe, so cannot recommend the
mixture.
San Feliu de Guixols, a small 'seaport town about 100 miles from Bar–
celona, Spain, manufactures nearly all the champagne corks as well as cork
disks for crown tops, cork insoles for shoes, etc. The cork bark used in this
extensive industry is all imported from Portugal, Algiers and Andalusia.
'fhe best champagne corks cost nine cents each in France. Most of the
corks in use a re made by sticking two or more pieces of cork together, as
champagne corks are becoming scarcer · every year.
If
one will take the
trouble to boil a number of old champagne corks for a few minutes, you
will
find that many of them can be pulled apart where they have bE.en joined. In
no other way can one possibly discover the deception.
Here's to Champagne, the drink divine
That makes us forget our troubles,
It's made of a dollar's worth of wine
Ancl four clollars' worth of bubbles.