I apologize for joining this discussion late. Perhaps this is yesterday’s news, but Edgar Branch gives us the EARTHQUAKE recipe in “Early Tales and Sketches 1865-1865: A tall ale-glass is nearly filled with California brandy and Angelica wine-one part of the former to two of the latter; fill to the brim with champagne; charge the drink with electricity from a powerful galvanic battery, and swallow it before the lightning cools. Then march forth –and before you have gone a hundred yards you will think you are occupying the whole street; a parlor clock will look as big as a church; to blow your nose will astonish you like the explosion of a mine, and the most trivial abstract matter will seem as important as the Day of Judgment. When you want this extraordinary drink, disperse your twenty-five cents and call for an “EARTHQUAKE.” McAvoy Layne Email: [log in to unmask] PO Box 4522, Incline Village, NV 89450 775-833-1835 Diligently train your ideals upward toward a summit where you will find your chiefest pleasure in conduct, which while contenting you, will be sure to confer benefits upon your neighbor and the community. -Mark Twain