Show J efro from M correspondence of the london times fascinations FASCI LATIONS MATE EFFECTS OF olf ABSINTHE PARIS pauls september 10 1864 most english on their first visit to paris li have ve had their atten attention ti oil attracted and t their h air curiosity excited by a dyste dally daliy rious operation which is to be seen daily dally 1 3 r and almost hourly but especially between 10 and 11 in the forenoon and between 4 and 6 of an anter after afternoon at any of tile tiie gay and numerous cafes on the crowded boulevards the waiter places before his customers a goblet and a decanter of water into the former lie he pours from a biad blaek black bottle about a I 1 liqueur glass of dark green fluid and then retires tile the person thus supplied thereupon grasps the decanter and proceeds son absinthe Slowly drop by drop and in small plashes clashes pl ashes lie he lets the waterfall water fall fail into tho tumbler in Int this lifis wise mingled edthe the mixture becomes cloudy from clear that the liquor was and lighter and lighter in tint until by tile the time the goblet gobiet its contents aroa arona arora pale whitish green and opaque drink which the consumer gradually sips off omm i this is the eren Fren frenchmans French clim mans liis llis whet wiet his ill lii s appetizing draught before ilis lifs dinner or his ins knife and fork breakfast thestal the italians have their vermouth the dutch and germans their bonnekamp boon champ ekamp and bitters tile the scandinavians have a variety of arre dial stimulants one of ot which will be recommended to you if you go to denmark as having been a favorite cordial with his late majesty y frederick vir vit of jovial memory in turkey you are recommend recommended mcinyre raki which opa lizes the water poured upon it it and is unlikely to prove very beneficial to the coats of the human stomach the frenchman has his absinthe tho tha most fascinating and agreeable and probably also the most li injurious jurious of all these drams adrams before meals in england absinthe is fortunately little knowland know nand still less used doubtless it istone is to be found at the lell leil leicester eester cester square hotels and in cases of foreign resort aiso also here and there in the liquor case of persons cu rious grioua in strong drinks but I 1 suspect that the greater part of all that enters enter s england goes down the throats threats of french and swiss and other foreigners there resident in parts of switzerland and especially near the jura where it is produced in large quantities great abuse is made of it tile the french military are much addicted to it and tile the consumption of it by the army in africa assaid is said sald to be prodigious besides giving appetite it has a peculiarly cheering exhilarating effect it is very cordial in that sense of the word but at the same time it is the greatest enemy a man can put into his mouth to destroy his stomach and steal away his brains so at least many doctors have assured the world and none more gravely or with more appearance than his warnings are tile the result of careful research than dr emile in a recent sitting of the academy dr communicated tolt to it an elaborate memoir under the title of elude medicate sur les las euve Buve urs d V absinthe of which a summary with extracts has just been published he declares that ho he has studied the question of alcoholic drinks under all its aspects and he lie proposes to give successively the resu results 1 ts of his observations jie jle begins with absinthe because its consumption has of late years increased to an enormous extent in france tonly ho kotonly in paris a and its environs but in provincial 1 towns and ind even ewen ev enin in the wine houses and dram shops hops of many country villa villages es and hilm hiim hamlets lets it competes successfully with brandy there are two sorts of bf absinthe the common and tho tim sw swiss iss 1 the former p prepared wih with alcohol of 60 70 and 72 degrees formerly tle the tie consumption of the first was waa to that of the second as 15 to 6 now the tile contrary is the case and 20 quarts of the tile swiss are consumed for every five of the common absinthe the former is made mado by infusing in alcohol of 60 or 70 degrees degree s wormwood of both major and minor som sem mites dab sinthe from which the liquor takes its name angelica angelic 3 root c calamus aniseed dittany s seeds eods and common majorah ma joram some distillers d still ers ens however vary the recipe ana and 1 ise use fennel mint and balm the tile above are the tile lefiti legitimate ma t e ingre ingredients i clients all of the class of bf stimulant plants and the concentration cent ration of tile the degree of the alcohol is generally very high unwholesome and positively noxious as the compound is it is often rendered more BO so by the skill of the adulterator indigo tincture of turmeric juice af hyssop and nettles are called to his big aid to improve the color and appearance of the pernicious draught the end edn act of absinthe is to produce a superabundant activity of tho brain a cerebral excitement wh winch adli at first is agreeable the intoxication it causes says dr comes on rapidly the head swims and the effect produced is nearly the same as that of poisoning by a narcotic which certainly does not occur corwith with an equal dose of brandy with the absinthe drinker as with the brandy drinker the excitement the liquor produces diminishes daily in intensity each day lie he is obliged to augment the dose in order to screw himself up to the right pite pitch 11 ll this is what all the drinkers I 1 have examined have told me the diseases brought on by drinking brandy are produced much more rapidly by the use of absinthe the effects of oi which however differ a good deal according to the manner of preparation of the liquor itself and to the mode in which it is mingled with water one of the greatest d angers of ibs ilithe says dr Decal sile consists in the adulteration it is made to undergo in grden order to sell it adalow at a low price some distillers do not scruple to admit that they tiley employ sulphate of copper As regards the mixing with water if the water be poured in at once as into wine and not copped dropped in gra gradually dually the tho mixture instead of being whitish whitis li and opaque is is green and almost transparent and thus prepared its action upon the brain brainis is i nuell much less jess rapid although it does not hot on 1 that account lose most mosto of fits fita its intoxicating power aa as some writers on oil the subject nave have affirmed 11 dr deraisne has applied himself to the stu study dy of what he calls acute and chronic the state to which it brings persons who v ho drink it exclusively he has seen and observed more than such patients and lie ho has haa stated to the academy 10 of these cases declaring that if they tiley suffice to prove that absinthe ought to be prohibited he shall have been largely recompensed for the difficulty and d disgust is atten attendant danton on such a study and this is the principal rin cipal of the conclusions with which ne sums up his subject he has convinced aimse himself ur f and he hopes to convince those who have power ower to check tb the tho 0 practice that absinthe even of good quality and in moderate doses say one glass or two per day is never exempt froin danger and sooner or later disorders in the human economy and particularly in the digestive functions he considers the extent to which it is now consumed in france to be a crying evil demanding the intervention of government he declares that the paie pale green demon has invaded all classes of society tho the idler and the workman the soldier and his officer all professions profession s those who work with with the brain and ana i those who work with the hand swallow it with frenzied eagerness he insists upon the necess necessity lt of banishing it completely from public consumption cincinnati AND OTHER CITIES the assessment of the realand real and personal property of cincinnati having just been reported for 1864 we make the following comparison with other cities total wealth CITIES 9 property ro t lation per head anin cincinnati nati na 1 st louls louis 16 U 0 5 r 8 I 1 boston 3 om 1 1705 new yorla lr portland me Ife cambridge mass 2321 mass V isow isom dayton nayton 0 1 thus we find considerable difference in tile the proportion of wealth to the population of various s cities counting five persons to the tha family cincinnati gives 2985 2 0 while boston gives 8 and N new w crork york to each family the tho per capita ratio rati in st louis I 1 is 9 which is about lower than it would wadid have hive been had not slavery involved that city in the effects of the rebellion tile the ratio in st paul is high enough considering the youth of the city atis is true that the tho official assessments assess mente do not always give th the true dimmer differ difference ened in the wealth of the several states and cities because in n some the assessment amounts to more nearly the real value than others but the vels veis according to the reported facts the population of the a bove above cities is estimated for tho present year it is to remark however that the present lph population of these cities is larger than the op above figures but they give the permanent population that represents the wealth on the tho assessment rolls there are at least of people in new york 01 of whom are the floating population lahon I 1 that hat will be off ant aft after erthe tile war avar shall close there arg are to of the same class in cincinnati cin nati who should not be counted in such a table tale as the real population so of other cities cine clue cincinnati n nati gazette the tile tides at I 1 gumboldt bay day have havo 11 avo ave been higher than ever known before |