EXPERIMENTS ON MONKEYS WITH WHISKY.

Evening Star, Issue 12866, 16 July 1906, Page 8

EXPERIMENTS ON MONKEYS WITH WHISKY.

STARTLING RESULTS. Striking evidence was given at the Clerkenwdl Sessions the other duy as part of the answer to the legal conundrum: “What is whisky?” which a Bench of Justices are trying to solve. Two experts having spoken to the character of Irsh whisky, Mr Geo. Alexander Austin, member or the Elgin Town Coumil, Scotland, ai d p oprwtor of the Grind Hotel, E’gm, wa. called. Thg “fin© old Scotch” in the present ease, he said, was “ fire water.”—(Laughter). “It ought not to be sold for human consumption. I oor>iider the very fact of the stuff being dumped on the market fills our lunatic asylums and the workhouses. People who driirk that stuff—well, I tun sony for them.” Mr Hunter, a Felhrw of the Institute of Ohemits and a public analyst, said that it was absolutely impossb’e to get from a patent still using maize a spirit having the charact-ristiio features of pot-etill whisky. He had experimented with alcohol on two monkeys in order to ascertain the physioloirical eff.cts of pot and patent stil ! whisky. " One,” explained witness, “ was filled with malt, and it got peacefully and beautifully 'tight' and behaved just like a per'ect gentleman.—(Laughter). After a little while, under the influence of this fine whisky it began to shown si ms of ‘ pulling round,’ and I cave it some tea, which it took very pleasantly and behaved quite well. There were no after-effects, and the morkey was happy. The o' her monkey, when g : ven some of the potent- till whisky, got drunk and went mad It went flying about the pace, and n't’wa.vjy ro.'h psed ” Mr Bo us field; So that the pot-still whisky made one benevolently drunk, and the other mad drunk?— Yes 1 chanced (he expm-hrent three weeks afterwards, and the' morkey which had been peacefully *ti<rht” on malt cot sudieniy uproarious with the-patent st : P epirit. Mr M‘Connell. K.C. : Did you pour it down their throats? Witness : Oh, monkevs like whiskv ; they are like their brother Scots.—(Laughter.)