From How to Mix Drinks, Or, The Bon-vivant's Companion by Jerry Thomas, 1862.  See Of Drinking in Remembrance of the Dead.

From Walks About Chicago, 1871-1881 by Franc Bangs Wilkie, 1882.

From Kladderadatsch, 1925.

From Kladderadatsch, 1928.

From Fliegende Blätter, 1931.

We're honored by this review of our collection of 112 spooky cocktail recipes, Of Drinking in Remembrance of the Dead:

Here's a toast to the dead from the book.  The text reads:

This toast was passed down to us from the Omar Khayyam Society, 1921:

To those who have passed beyond the veil that hides the Infinite, and solved the last great mystery of life.  In enduring memory of these friends and comrades we annually, with humble and contrite hearts, in solemn appreciation of the glorious beauties of their lives, speak the seven hundred-year-old lament of Omar in FitzGerald’s magnificent rendering:

For some we loved, the loveliest and the best
That from his Vintage rolling Time hath prest,
Have drunk their Cup and Round or two before,
And one by one crept silently to rest.

From Jugend, 1907.

From Kladderadatsch, 1929.

A pendulum can tell whether you should have that drink.  From Lustige Blätter, 1914.

From Le Courrier Français, 1907.

"Lifting wine glasses counts as exercise" quips celebrated humorist Elaine Ambrose, and she was hardly even joking.  Here's a precurosr to her insight, from Le Courrier Français, 1907.

"Do our 'best' women drink?" from Wayside Tales, 1906.