The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-07-24
Earning Money by Tasting Many
Kinds oil tintagcs.

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From the Chicago News
"Did you ever meet wine-sam-
plcr?' inquired a South Water street
liquor merchant of Daily News re-
porter. "Allow me to present my
friend, Count Friedrich Won Linden"
ln an ensuing conversation the count
gave some Incidents of his life and
occupation. Born of Dutch parents,
In Holland, he went with them'to Ger
many. His father and his fathers
father were wine merchants
II am called count, but am not II
count" he said. why am called
count don't know, unless il is be.
cause make my money easily, spend
il freely, and drink good deal oi
wine. | think can tell the brand of
any wine in the market by its taste.
have sampled every vintage OF Eu-
rope aud OF a good many other coun-
tries. believe IL to be an inner
tied taste, aud when discovered my
accomplishment, with Dutch thrift
iuess turned II TO pecuniary account.
| shall soon start on my third trip To
south America MY last trip was for
firm liz South William street. New
York. They buy good deal ofSpan-
ish and French wines, some ltaiion
vintage, and some German. sailed
to Colon aud went by rail to Panam +,
thence to San Josi, Costa Rica; thence
TO La LiDertad, thence TO st. Anna, n
small country village in Honduras;
back again TO San Josi and Panama,
then to Callao, 10 Santiago, to Nalpa-
raiso, to st. Jmlienne, 5000 miles from
Valparaiso; thence to Montevideo, LIS
Plata; to Para, Brazil; to st. Thomas,
Porto Rica; to Kingston, Jamaica; To
Mantanzas, aud 10 Havana. was
nineteen weeks on the trip, and my
salary was Sll per day and expenses.
The first places visited was for clar-
cts. o. course, they all had to be
sampled by tasting. In the Argen-
tine Confederation | only bought
white wines-white and thick, like
thin syrup-sweet, but, at the same
time, strong. Ii costs IS cents per
gallon. Put up In fancy bot les like
maraschino, II sells over the bar in
New York for % cents a'pony,' AS
| to clareis, there is really only
one kind in South America,
but il is the best in the world-black
aud heavy. II costs AZ centimes per
gallon, and when mixed in New York
one gallon will make three, and it IL
sold for So per bottle, or Is cents a
glass over the bar 1t is much better
than French claret-the latter Is too
light. | forgot TO mention that i've
days of my time was consumed by
laying of at Valparaiso. | became
loverheated with wine, and the faculty
of acute taste passed from me. This
often happens In hot climates whrn
the sampling continues for sometime,
My visit TO St. Thomas and to King
ston was for rum, but this | did not
have TO taste The brands are pretty
reliable. At Mantanzas | purchased
sugar-brown sugar, in hogsheads-
and ut Havana bought cigars. These
last two adventures were side specu-
lations OF my own, for another New
York firm, and they netted me con-
8 d rablc extra money. | tell you
this because have left the employ OF
the South William street firm They
defaulted OH contract with me.
There Is one wine country have
never visited, anu that is California,
and am going there after one more
trip. From what 1 hear OF the soil
ana climate, and have seen of the
wine product, believe much finer
J wines than the present common native