A TEMPERANCE SHOW.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2720, 7 December 1881, Page 3

A TEMPERANCE SHOW.

Of all the exhibitions ever held, the International Temperance Exhibition, opened the other day in the Agricultural Hall, London, is probably the most curious. The first thing that strikes the visitor is the vast variety of drinks within reach of the teetotallers. Scientific enterprise has of late considerably increased the number of non-intoxi-cating beverages. Ginger beer, soda water, lemonade, and seltzer have now innumerable rivals and companion drinks. Appollinaris, Frosbaoh, Wilhelm’s Quelle, Gerolstein, and Godesberg as table waters ; Together with zoedone the life giver ; hedozone, the agreeable ; lime-juice cordial, hopetta, and Ben Trovato, are a few of the names of the liquid wares claiming attention. Then there is the cup that cheers but not inebriates. Tea of every sort and in every form ; coffee from Mocha, Ceylon, Queensland, and Jamaica, cocoa and cocoatine, chocolate and chocolatine, are also paraded before the visitor. Syrups, of all sorts, too, tempt the eye. And in addition to the drinks almost as innumerable as the variety of existing wines, are the apparatus and appurteanaces —racks and vats,corks and corkscrews, tinfoil and goldfoil fountains and ice chests —which are among the exhibits. Altogether there appears to have been collected everything connected with the production, disposal, and consumption of non-intoxicating drinks.