This section is from the book "Facts Worth Knowing", by Robert Kemp Philip. Also available from Amazon: Inquire Within for Anything You Want to Know.
A Lemonade, composed or two bottles of champagne, one bottle of seltzer water, three pomegranates, three lemons, and of sugar quantum sufficit, is a princely leverage in hot weather; only care must be taken that the perspiration is not thereby too much encouraged.
 
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