Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1898 — Extraordinary Drinks. [ARTICLE]

Extraordinary Drinks.

Of the many extraordinary drink! regularly consumed, the blood of live horses may perhaps be considered the most so. Marco Polo and Carpini were the first to tell the world off the practice of the Tartars and Mongols opening the vein in their horses’ necks, taking a drink, and closing the wound again. As far as can be seen, this has been the practice from time Immemorial. There is a wine habitually consumed in China which is made from the flesh of lambs reduced to paste with milk, or bruised into pulp with rice, and then fermented. It is extremely strong and nutritious, and powerfully stimulating to the physical organism. The Laplanders drink a great deal of smoked snow-water, and one of the national drinks of the Tonquinese is arrack flavored with chickens’ blood. The list would scarcely be complete without mention of absinthe, which may be called the national spirituous drink of France. It Is a horrible compound of alcohol, anise, coriander, fennel, wormwood, indigo and sulphate of copper. It is strong, nasty, and a moral and physical poison.