Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1857-11-28
Wine Two Hundred Years Old.

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The only thing in the former city
(Bremen) which we had time to visit
was the celebrated Rathskeller, or
: crypt ofthe old Hall of Council. This
is renowned through all Germany for
| It's tnas of Rhenish wine, of the most
undoubted antiquity. They are kept
IN great vaults, distinguished by diff
ferent titles. That of the Twelve Ap-
ostles' has been immortalized by Hauff
and Helne, but the apostolic wines are
/ not SO fine as those authors would
/ have us believe. Each cask bears the
name of one of the Apostle; they cons
tain wine of the vintage of I7IS, which
has now, was informed, pungent
acid flavor. That of Judas, alone, res
tains pleasant aroma, and the sinner,
therefore Is In greater demand than
all the saints together. In the Rose
] Cellar are enormous casks, vet filled
with Hochheimer (Hock1 Of the vint-
age of 1924. For acoupleof centuries
it was carefully treasured, but the City
Fathers of Bremen finally discovered
that the longer il was kept the worse it
grew, and now sell it to visitors in
small bottles, alta moderate price.
We sat down in one of the stalls in
the outer cellar, and had a bottle un~
corked Think, of drinking wine
which grew when the Plymouth Col>
onV was but four years old-of the
same vintage which Ariosto might
have drunk, and Milton, and Croms
well, and Wailenstein, and Gustavus
Adolphus Shakespeare had been
dead but eight years when the grapes
were trodden in the vats; and Ben
Johnson may have sung his Drink TO
me only with thine eyes over a goblet
of the golden juice We filled the
glasses with great solemnity as these
thoughts passed through our minds
admired its dark, smoky, color, shifted
up reverently its nusky, mummy like
odor and then tasted. Fancy mix~
ture of oil and vinegar, favored with
a small dropsof kreosote This, as 4
afterwards recognized, was the impress
sion made upon the palate, though my
imagination was too busy at the time
to be, awareo of it. We all said, 1t is
was not so bad as expected, and, by
keeping the fact of its age constantly
before our eyes, succeeded in emptying
the bottle. So pungent, however, was
the smoky, oily, aciduous flavor, that
it affected my palate for full twenty
four hours afterwards, and everything
] aiesor drank in that time seemed to be
ofthe vintage of I624-[ Bayard Tay>
Ior.
Man A bubble on the oceans roll,
ing wave.
Life A CLEAN oflight extinguished
by the grave,
Fame "A meteor dazzling with lis
distant glare.
Wealth. source Of trouble and
consuming care.
Pleasure "A CLEAN ofsunshine pas
sing soon away.
Love a morning stream whose
memory giids the day.
Faith An anchor dropped beyond
the vale of death.
Hope Al lone stnr beaming Ger the
barren health.
Charisy-A stream neandering from
the fount Of love.
Bible "A Gnide to realms of endless
Joy above.
Religion IA key which opens wide
the gates of Heaven.
Death a knife by which the ties
of eartE arc riven.
Earth--A desert through which pill
grims Wend their way.
Grave-A place Of rest where ends
LIES weary day.
Resurrection Al sudden waking
from Il quiet dream.
HeaTen A land of joy, of light and
love supreme.
arG God made Washington cbildless
thai. nation might call him father. Can
ihe author Of this explain why God made
Mr. Buchanan childlessl
np Mister father wants yns to send
him two yards Of black broad cloth be
don't care what color ii is, and when he
kills his pig last week he'll pay you what
you owe him.