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Show TiiElhKASof the British M'dica) Temperance Awociation in regard to what are not ioloxicatiDg btverag', coincide admirably with the v;ewt of the average American toper on the subject. A Jargn majority of The drunkards ol Ihii country would iiko lo b:come mcmbera of the O'sociatioo and take the oalb (o keep its pledges. At a recent bacq-it givtn by the society, only "wholesome non-intoxicant beverages" were ined, yet tlio list of drinks included unfrrmenlrd wines, among which wen port and sherry, beverag's marie from malt, fruit drinks, drinks mado from hops, which were declared to bo "good and pleasant; "cydrriip," paid tu bo concocted from the juico of apple; anolhnr liquid stated to b'j "tlio pur irnpit'jd juice of the grap", frrr, from all foreign mn'Arr, and pli; iwinily acid;" and another with a queer nam, and av rr'd lo contain pho"phalea and iron "an rxncilli;rit tonic." (JingT ale, fruit wur.ei and liqueurs "iininloxicating and very attractive," wore alo in timlitof bovrag'-s wiiicli chcr but do riot iri)h, late. A banq ifll with ti,t kind of ft "wet" oprtturl might not s-tlify a Grai.t or a CnBridl'ir, hut common (f.pers would do fcry woll Willi it, ' |