Suthin' To Drink

An Atchison man who began drinking coal oil for sore throat now finds it as difficult to leave off as if he were a whisky toper. There are 1,964 distilleries in tht United States, not counting moonshiners. Fortunately, these are not all ir. operation. Saki, the Japanese tipple, is madt from distilled rice; pulque, that ol Mexico, from the American agave. The cordials are made from variou! kinds of fruits, as kirschwasser ana maraschino from cherries, curacoa froiï orange juice. Some rather queer drinks are frus tung, made of aloes; raki, distilled f ron grape skins after the wine is pressed and slakavia trava, made from a sort of sweet grass that grows in Kamschatka.