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Show FORCIS OP A HIGHBAiTiL. " An ingenious cuss writes that ho has boon "in- , formed by a physician that strong liquor taken In the form of a highball such is now the commonest com-monest way of taking it is more immediately intoxicating in-toxicating than it Is when taken neat, because the water which the highball contains passes quickly , Into the circulation, bearing the intoxicant with it; whereas it is necessary to swallow two or three doses of the neat liquor before the same effect , is felt. May it not be that the highball is there- .v lore conducive to sobriety, as tending to gie the drinker his warning sooner9" j Hut plain alcohol would gie a quicker warning. ' |