Bathed In Champagne

1895

The famous Cliff House at San Francisco did its greatest business during the big bonanza days, when speculators who had made a thousand or so on a sudden turn of the milling stock market devoted a share of the day's profits to a luxurious spread on the Cliff's veranda. Probably the most reckless waste of money ever seen at this place was made by an opium smuggler and dealer in Chinese return certificates named Whaley. After an expensive lunch he insisted on a champagne bath, and despite the protest of his companions he had 300 bottles of the best wine broken into a tub and then disported in the costly bath. — Chicago Herald.


Camphor Cures the Grip

Doctors generally agree that camphor is the deadliest foe to grip that is now known. A drop of camphor on the tongue is excellent to break up an incipient cold, but it is a painful remedy, as it burns like a coal of fire. Much easier to take is a little lump of camphor gum allowed to slowly dissolve in the mouth. The burning sensation is very much lessened, and the help seems quite as certain. — Philadelphia Press.