The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-02-01
Wine Worth $500, 900 a Drop.

Some ofth deputies assembled at the
German Reichstag have heen irving to
tighten the severe burdens of imperial
legislation by the institution of a series
of relaxations of special character.
We may easily believe that the first of
these, which was called by some :" Pisch-
Austellung and by others " Fisches-
SEM" was suggested by the time-hon-
ored custom of English politicians at
the close of the Parliamentary session.
The exhibition OF fish wss followed by
an exhibition of wine. The originators
of the feast called it German g Wein-
PROBE" and invited contributors from
all parts of the Empire (perhaps even
from Hamburg) to send specimens Oh
their wines, merely STIMULATING that as
in the case OF fish, so in the case OF
the wines, the contributed articles
should be disposed Of BY the judges
The invitation was very widely respond
cd to, and the tables in the new arehi-
tectenhaus were loaded with bottles
from all the famous dristricts OF the
Rhine and the Mosel, the Saar and the
Abr, the Main ard the Neckar. Upon
each table, in the position OF
honor, stood small bottle of
the most wonderful wine in the
whole world, the Rosenwein out Of the
Rathakeller of Bremen. This wine, the
property of the Municipal Council of
the old Hanseatic city, is reputed to be
more than two and half centuries old.
1t takes its name from a bronze bas-re-
/ lief of roses which surmounts it, and is
said to have arrived in Bremen in the
year 1924. Each little bottle of this
celebrated hook tore round it's neck an
inscription, which professed to give an
exact calculation OF its value: An eight
ohm stuck of this wine cost in 1894 800
| gold reichsthalers. After the lapse of
22l years Tin the year 1870, the stuck
of eight-Ohm cost All, 607, 100000 gold
reichsthalers; one ohm (edual to $50
bottles) cost52, zoe, Ss7, 800 gold thalers;
one bottle cost 292, 1872, 7OS gold thalers
and "a groschen; one glass eight
| glasses to the bottle) cost sc, 597, 1888
gold thalers 80 groschen; one single
drop Q,OO0 drops to glass; was worth
Sc, 597 gold thalers so groschen. The
''value" has gone on increasing at arate
which appalls the valuer. In the year
1859 drop of Rosenwein was worth
146, 1871 gold thalers; in 1873 the
wine had risen to the price of
$50, 500 gold thalers "a groschen
per drop, while at the present
moment the value of single drop is
reckoned at ,932, 1868 marks of the new
imperial coinage. II it were possible
to fix standard of value between the
whole of the toll of the German father
land and the vats of the Bremen Rosen-
vein, we doubt if the former would
fetch money sufficient to purchase the
latter. The honor of receiving bottle
of this aged hook is more literally
"priceless than any other honor in
the world, and this honor was bestowed
once every year by the City of Bremen
upon Goethe. The labels on the bottles
of Rosenwein at the Weinprobe," did
not state what we have heard, alasl to
be fact-namely, that even this pre-
cious drink is regularly adulterated.
Near to it in the same division of the
cellar of the Rathhaus of Bremen stand
twelve vats, called the Twelve Apostles,
each of which holds Rhine wine made
in the eighteenth century, Whenever a
bottle of the seventeenth century Rose
wine is drawn from the cask bottle of
Peter wine is poured in, so that the
quantity of the Rosswein never de-
creases, while its quality is constantly
under change.-Lond0n News.