Explore "The Humbugs of the World" by P.T. Barnum on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
Adulterations in drinks -- Riding home on your wine-barrel -- List of things to make rum -- Things to color it with -- Canal-boat hash -- English adulteration law -- Effects of drugs used -- How to use them -- Buying liquors under the customhouse lock -- A homeoopathic dose.
As long as the people of the United States tipple down rum and other liquors at the rate of a good deal more than one hundred million gallons a year, besides what is imported and what is called imported -- as long as they pay for their tippling a good deal more than fifty millions, and probably over a hundred millions of dollars a year -- so long it will be a great object to manufacture false liquors, and sell them at the price of true ones. When liquor of good quality costs from four to fifteen dollars a gallon, and an imitation can be had that tastes just as good, and has just as much "jizm" in it -- and probably a good deal more -- for from twenty-five cents to one dollar a gallon, somebody will surely make and sell that imitation.