Morning journal and courier., 1882-09-25

l Of course, in this extensive district there
 a great variety of wines the above are sim ply prominent types. Our host gave us an | exquisite dry Tokay after the soup In | Count Degenfeld's cellars tasted an ad-
 mirable wine of the Maslas type, several years in cask and of great character, which l cost little more than one Austrian forln per | litre. We do not know whether such wines ] stand shipment we'll, but the wine would cer | tainly be 6 great boon to this country at 1 double the price. No wine is sent directly | from Tokay to England. Cur informant
 said he believed there merchant in Prsssburg (many miles away and quite out l of the Hegyallye district) who communicated directly with England. Of course, Plume would be the port, and if the cask could be l sent direct from Tokay and closed in sec-
 ond cask there might be some chance of our l getting the true Ausbruch and Maslas The l chief trade is with Prussia.
 Goldfish at Newfoundland.
 Correspondence New York Evening Post.l If the natives of Newfoundland are ever perverted to heathenism their chief god will l surely be the codfsh. Already the cod al- l most touches divinity, or at least is the en- | bem of all things material. The Newfound- 1 landers recognize the dignity of their fish | god by stamping him on their local currency, and but for the manifest inconvenience would no doubt make him legal tender for payment of debts So ubiquitous is the fish, and so familiar does he become, that when one pass es a fifty-cent piece here he half expects to find ten pound codfish among the small change. On official documents, on postage stamps, on bank notes, the cod and his fa- miliar dewlap meet the eye. Spread on plat forms and broiling in the sun, he forms fishy fringe around the island-a wall of de- fense, if not against invading armies, at least against the fiercer foes, poverty and starva- ton.
 The allegorical importance of the codfish is sustained by the facts and figures. These islanders catch probably not less than ST. OOO,O 900 worth year, and more than half their annual exports of $8, GOO .OOO are made up of their staple fishy commodity. Every part of the cod is useful; the head fried is an esculent dainty-a kind of compound of sweetbread and calves s-foot jelly; the tongue cut out and nicely Drowned in the frying pan is an improved imitation of the fried oyster the skin is used for fine glue, the sounds are eaten or made into the lsinglass of the cook book, the Norwegians grind up the bones for
 cattle feed, and the French buy the spawn
 for batting their sardine fishing grounds. Stretching for hundreds of miles south ward and southeastward of this island, and sixty miles from shore at the nearest point, is tue Grand bank of Newfoundland that mystic fableland of the sea, whose limit and nature are still undefned. A little way oceanward from it's slopes the sea reaches some of it's greatest depths, aud within it's boundaries are depressions where the fisher mems anchor never touches bottom. Old codfishers say that the Grand bank is steadi. ly rising. and that few centuries will find it jutting above the surface. The Grand bank, with it's ad djuncts, is some six hundred miles long and from two to three hundred miles wide. The shadows over it vary from ninety to four hundred feet in depth. The Grand bank is, beyond comparison, the finest fish, ing ground in the world. For centuries the fishermen have visited it, and millions on millions of tons of codfish have been taken there, but still the yield is undiminished. Sometimes for two or three years the fish will be scarce and the report will spread that the bank is "fshed out," when suddenly @ year of unprecedented catches will give the lie to the notion.
 For about six months in the year, begin ming with May, the codfish swarm, not only over the Grand bank, but in lesser size and numbers, along the whole North American shore from the latitude of New York to unknown distance northward They are found from the eastern waters of Long 1s- l land to the furthest extremes of Labrador, and even up to the regions of eternal ice. What lures the cod from the ocean depths to | which he goes in winter is not certainly known, but it is surmised that he either fol- | lows up the small shore fish or seeks the sea- | cherry-a small red berry that often grows | on the weedy bottoms where the cod is l found. It is also pretty we'll established that l during the summer visit shoreward the fe- | male fish spawns. The immense race of cod, far outnum bering all the other large fish of | the sea, is accounted for by it's fecundity. | Nine millions of eggs have been computed as | the roe of large specimen, and all the cod 1 fish caught by man are mere cipher com l pared with the billions large and small, swal- | lowed by sharks and other fish of prey.