Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1858-03-25

but it would have been ilI-natured the Chi
nese did Us no harm, and the blinds would
have kept out the air 80 we went on eating,
! like Greenwich pensioners or Blue-coat boys
in public
Ducks tongues and deers' fendon,.-So we
continued our attentions to the ducks tongues
and passed on to deers tendons-a royal dish,
These deers' tendons come FROM or ought to
come from, Tartary The Emperors make
presents of them to their favored subjects
Yeh's father, at Canton, recently received
some from his sovereign, and gave q feast in
honor of the present These must have been
boiled for week to bring them down to thu
state of softness in which the came up to ns,
Exhausted, or rather repleted, nature could
no more. When stew OF what the Chi
nese call the ear she'll fish was placed upon the
table, no one could carry his experiments fur
ther An untouched dish is signal for the
close of the feast The maitre dhotel protest.
ed that he had twenty more courses of excel
lent rarity but our Chinese master of the Ger.
emonies was imperative, and so were We
Plain boiled rice, the rice OF Szeehuen. was
brought round in little bowls, and of this We
all ate beautifully. Confectionery and canded
fruits, acanthns berries stepped in spirits, fol-
are allowed at Chinese dinner. They have
a proverb that fruit is feathers in the morning
silk at noon, and lead at night | was as
sured by competent authority that nothing had
been placed upon the table which was not in
the highest degree wholesome, nutritious, and
light digestion. We certainly so found it /;
for, adjourning to the house of the cemrsro,,
We made an excellent supper that night
WINE Two HUNDRED YEARS OLD.-The on
ly thing in the former city (Bremen) which
we had time to visit, was the celebrated laths-
keller, or crypt of the old Hall OF Council
This is renowned throughout all Germany for
tuns of Rhenish wine, of the most undoubted
antiquity. They are in great vaults, distiu-
guished by different titles That of the twelve
Apostles has been immortalized by HauH
and Heine, but the apostolical wines are not
so fine as those authors would have us believe.
Each cask bears the name of one of the pos.
ties they contain wine Of the vintage Of
IT'S, which has now, | was informed, pun
gent, acid flavor That of Judas alone, rr-
tains a pleasant aroma, and the sinner, there
fore, is in greater demand than all the saints
together. In the " Rose Cellar" are enor-
nous casks yet filled with Hochheimer Hook
Oh tne vintage OF lUZf fOr couple OF cen
turies il was carefully treasured, but the City
Fathers Of Bremen finally discovered the lon
ger it was kept the worse it grew, and sell it
to visitors in small bottles at moderate price.
We sat down in the outer cellar, and had
bottle uncorked. Think of drinking wine
which grew when the Plymouth Colony was
but four years olI--of the same vintage which
Ariosto might have drunk, and Milton, aud
Cromwell, and WalIenstein, and Gustarus
Adolpha>! Shakespeare had been dead but eight
years when the grapes were troiden in the
yats and Ben johnson may have sung Drink
to me only with thine eyes" over goblet of
the golden juice. We filled the glasses with
great solemnity as these thoughts passed thro'
our mind-admired its dark, smoky color,
shifted up reverently its musky, mummy like
odor, and then tasted. Fancy a mixture OF
oil and vinegar, favored with a small! drop of
kreosote ! This as | afterward recognized,
was the impression made upon the palate,
though my Imagination was too busy at the
time to be aware of it. We all said, at is
not so bad as l expected" aud by keeping
the face of its age constantly before our eyes,
succeeded in emptying the bottle So pun
gent, however, was the smoky, oily aciduous
favor, that it affected my palate for full twen-
ty-four hours afterward, aud everything ate
and everything drank in that time seemed
to be of the vintage of l634.-B. Taylor.