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Show Scotch High. Ball V' Lcads All Drink's If the census takers for 1800 had .uV& .pi, "Do yon like Scotch high'1 ballc?j they wankl have been generally nd vised tagfli'icii heads examined ; whtldlnst ver they wouldlimo received nn'cit-thuiUstio nn'cit-thuiUstio affirmation from 70 pereoflt' df theee who confcsjtd to dri.nkiiifr unyt thing alcoholic. Whether the Scotch high ball and golf had any effect upon each other in their VimuUiHwus io to favor la not ascertainable, ascer-tainable, but certain it to that boll i pastimes were introduced intojftlij:i country about half u dor.sn yearsPngoj; and havo been growing In fiior steadily ever hlnce. At present tho Scotch "aeverage Is for moro papular with those-w those-w ho rather dislike to bo named frportft kn the Scotch sport is with those who. iMistupon their friends calling thcii 'flkrUmen. ."Sporting myiOeUII diinkl ehampflgne. - ' Liquor vendors generally testify tljAlC jt fkanje in the habit of the drinking Mlriln haw been wrought by the hTth Wl.4. Cochtalls, rftr,al(!lit whUkyand? f have all lost Krouud to tle mixture .' 'fbe Scotch high ImP came (tret Into4 Ihy eowriderablo degree or popu.af Ity, bat upoti Its wurlit welcome Uourbon imlo ryo high balls wero p6docel i'lu'y, too. wero made to ddl . that they nitlstkd what had hl(hero 1kcii lu -tw'.'l longing ttnda ofeue unresi" iliforig'drlnkirg men Iirreotne plarcp i.v, UtrM.VarietIes of hisb balls ranw rVhI even, in tnlns, while In other, the "t-irti'kr io nu easy favo:llv, In few N-;ii-eHos the CtleJonluu prTdLUI .Kjlrtfrftj-whcii wixid with. spar kllug wn- Mtl It Wahiiost never drank straight, "iuMevr. Jbl whisky Is had -fourth, MOIRIXKERS LIKE scorcu, ThVpWBrity.of Scotch s'eeriis to cx-t-n.t UiWigiili clnseva of whisky drimv wislafl'ctiy.'' It Is noionger nt irjUoMt'lFdrink, "rnd is - downed- vjtlf h I tie. a rellsli by thos.e.-vw'lio' ia Mtltrjyggncytlm'p;jtnr J;eire.or golM-,ti)h?f?fMel$yv'5vlro.t-'i-l' joiit miltioinijcB arolwul llio' lit k i-l so in nil mr minute. U u r's tofctlfieH of th" onset of tfc S iit'i nud also of still w hie. No a I ere el so in town was the growing popularity nt ttill wine noticed to any Hdch lcfCL is nt Rector's Dell Ju1iiib'.oh, trie dead barkeeper, says that people fuel they fan spend as much tnonty 011 Moselle Rhino wines as on ciiampigne, and that it docs not cause them a headache head-ache next day. "I luve two saloons within 200 feet of each other," eais Alderman Kenna, 'and ihn calls in the two places are altogether al-together different." Die-Alderman was landing in the saloon he onus at the corner of CUik and Van Ilium streets. "Here wo sell 76 per tent high halls, I never took one of the things in my life, nnd I wouldn't; but that'4 what the people who come hero want, eept colored people, who ask for gin fiO per cental them." "Now come into my other place, just south of here, at 280 Clark." Mr. Ken na led the way Into 11 big saloon eluiply Jammed with men drinking beer out of enormous schooners. Two rows were lined up at the long bar, 0110 behind the other. "Now these men," ho slid, "are nil longshoremen and railroad workers. I don't belieo there 11 a vkious one among them, and J know moit of them at that. They only want besr. Tho fashion don't cl.ango here." Chh ago Tribune. |