ment stores or elsewhere.The “Old Absinthe House/* New Orleans* oldest and most unique landmark, has pulled down the blinds and put- up the shutters. For more than 150 years Joy beverages, such as could be found nowhere else on land or sea, were concocted in the famous buffet, but the edict of the United States cutting off the importation of absinthe sounded the death knell of the quaint remnant of Bohemian life in New Orleans.