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Show ORIGIN OF THE COCKTAIL. There has been much curiosity as to the origin of the name "cocktail.' At last some one has come forward with an answer an-swer to this much-disputed question which may be pure Invention or truth, but at any rate sounds plausible. In the early days, when doctors used Btrenuous methods and medicines In the cure of disease, dis-ease, there was a habit among them of treating certain diseases of the throat with a pleasant liquid, which was applied by the tip of a long feather plucked from a cock's tall. In course of time this remedy rem-edy came to be used as a gargle, still retaining re-taining its old name. During the course of Its evolution the gargle gained most of the present ingredients spirits, sugar, bitters, and so on till It became the highly-esteemed beverage of today. Kansas Kan-sas City Journal. |