The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-09-17
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

personal AND POLITICAL.
Emerson is So years of age.
General Meade is on visit to Pennsyl,
vania.
An Illinois paper calls Senator Yates
Shirt-tailed Dick.
Fanagut is expected home the first Of
October.
Olive Logaa's new lecture is Paris.
The City Of luxury"
Booth has been offered $500 night toi
six nights in Buffalo
Cen Beauregard is about to marry o
New York heiress.
Chi, Of the Chinese embassy, says
" knowledge is dangerous 10 women"
The Germans of Davenport. Iowa, have
returned in a body to the democratic party
Thirty seven Grant and Collax votes
in Nashville Jail, most Of them for steal
ing.
Negotiations for the renewal Of the re
ciprocity treaty with Canada, are in active
progress.
Miss Helen Eckert, Of Easton, Penn
sylvania, fifteen years Of age, weighs SOC
pounds.
The Cincinnati Enquirer is one of ths
best papers in the country.
The Atlanta New Era, violent radica
organ, publishes a government advertise
ment eight columns in length, printed in
small type. This is now the way in whicl
radicals tax the people to enable them e
drag cut meager existence.
Senator Yates is about to address the
people Of Decatur, Illinois-6rst upon po
litical principles, and then upon tempe
rance. He knows about as much Of on,
az Of the other. We suggest that. having
once appeared almost like Adam in tb,
garb of prilnevai innocence at the break
fast table at Williards, his next speecl
should be addressed to young ladies, ans
and It's subject modss'y.
Among TIE distinguished bachetr
were the following: Michael Angelo
Boyle, Newton. Locke, Bayle. SheDstone
Le,bnitz, Hobbies, Noltaire, Pope, Adau
Smith, Thompson, Akenside, Arbuthnot
Hume, Gibbon. Cowper, Goldsmith, Lamb
Washington Irving.
VINE.
The best cider apple is the crab apple
-Four hundred millions OF people US
wine.
Wines, Ike men and women, are Otter
sick.
Pear juice contains little but sugar An,
water.
Sparkling wines were first made il
Champagne, France.
California produces 100000 gallons 0
wine annually.
The use of wine has been known f.
more than 1000 years.
France produces about 275, coo, 900 gal
Ions Of cider per annum.
One hundred parts of grape sngar fur
nish 5I.1ll alcohol and 4S.SS9 carbonil
acid.
Paris consumes about 10000, coo gal
Ions Of wine, or about 100 gallons PEI
head.
To remove aciiity from wines Liebig re,
commends eight grains of the neutral tar
trate of pctassa 10 half gallon of wine.
Mahommetans are forbidden by Ell KoI
ran to drink wine, but Turkey sent severa
varieties to Paris; and Russia imitatec
her sick neighbor's example.
Egypt sent wine made from dates 20 th,
Paris exposition East Iudia Laco wine
South America king palm wine, and Bra
zil orange and annas wine.
Champagne is almost invariably mad
from must pressed out or the grape aO'
fermented without the shells or pulps. Th
must should be allowed to settle for abou
fifteen hours.
Every one remembers the lines attribu
ted to Luther, aud thus translated,
Who loves not wine, woman and song,
Remains a fool his whole llfo long" .
Tokay wine is made from grapes permi
ted to hang upon the vines untii consider
ably 1ried up. The berries of these grape
are then completely ground up without th
stems, and frequently stirred SO as to forl
complete paste. The sitting out Of kel
nels and shells is repeated until the sa
becomes a paste, and this pasteis psrnists
=. s.rmant. aud beooPss- Toksv vies.