Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1883 — Congress Water. [ARTICLE]

Congress Water.

A stranger dropped in one morning before breakfasf at a Washington drug store and called for a bottle of Congress water. The intelligent clerk ducked

beneath the counter and promptly produced a bottle of old Monongahela.The customer tasted it tad then, depositing, his glass, remarked: “Do you ball tha£(jongress water?" “That’s it,” answered the pill compounder, smiling pleasantly. Congressman who oomes in here drinks it” — Brooklyn Eagle.