To the Editor of the "Nortu-Curna Dairy News."
Siz,—While I presume the reference to the of cocktails really concerned the date of their introduction in Shanghai, the following quotation from Chapter III of Dickens' "American Notes," on Boston, may be of interest:
"There is no smoking-room in any hotel—but the bar is a large room with a stone floor, and there people stand and smoke.—There too the stranger is initiated into the mysteries of Gin-sling, Cocktail, Sang-area, Mint Julep, Sherry-cobbler, Timber Doodle, and other rare drinks."
So we seo that a cocktail was a drink known in the United States 82 years ago.
I am, ete, History.
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