Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1889 — Cologne Drinking. [ARTICLE]

Cologne Drinking.

One of the latest fads is cologne drinking. It is common in England and France and is gaining ground !• America. Cologne can be bought without exciting suspicion at the drug stores and its intoxicating qualities are of the most reliable character. The cologne drinker usually begins by taking it On lumps of sugar and progressively works up to take it straight in liberal quantities. As most of the American cologne is made from wood alcohol, a particularly venomous and fiery decoction, its effeett are more marked than those of the ordinary liquor, and the drinker may indulge ■ his appetite with a responsible cer tainty that he will wind up with de lirium tremens. But this, instead o being an objection to cologne drinking, is regarded as one of its merits, the tendency of bibulous development Beeming to be in the direction of something more deadly.