The Vault at Pfaff's

An Archive of Art and Literature by the Bohemians of Antebellum New York

Altogether Superfluous

Anonymous. "Altogether Superfluous." Vanity Fair, May 5, 1860, 293.
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Type
magazine
Genre
commentary
Abstract

The suggestion from the temperance crowd is that every man use litmus paper to test for death in his cup. This, of course, is met with derision from the paper.