The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-05-31

Now you have tasted probably the most
expensive sherry In the world, which
would bring $50 dozen bottles at a
club as ordinarily sold.
MY wife comes down here OCCASION
ally" he continued, land looks around
among my collection One day In a pud-
ding at home l detected the flavor of an
old Pedro Ximinez sherry that was worth
IS drop. We had expensive pudding
that day"
Valuable DrOps-OnIy for the Sick.
Then these are the most expensive
wines of any kind in existence?" asked
the visitor. mo- answered the wine
keeper. THE wine In the Bremen town
hall cellars, called the Rose, is said to
be the most valuable. 1t is a Rudesheimer
Rhine-wine from the year 1868, and the
cask is replenshed by degrees when
ever the wine is. drawn, with carefully
washed and dried gravel In 1868 a stuck
had the value of 800 gold dollars. 1t is
never sold, but destined exclusively for
the sick of Bremen. who obtain a small
quantity on the production of a doctors
certificate. At present the estimated value
Of a bottle is 100000 marks; of a glass;
full, 100000 marks; and of a drop, 2,346
Marks
Curious Bottles.
otSluCS MS UNUSUAL COlicCtiOn OF Ma
deiras, sherries, and Bordeaux. the wine
keeper has curious company of bottles,
saved from the time when bottles were
in their crudest form, and which the
Arts Club ought to have in its present
exhibition. One which he believes to be
the Oldest bottle used for holding liquor
in this country came from Nassau, In
the Bahamas. much longer ago than
anybody can remember originally filled
with snuff. 1t is made of a coarse, sea-
weed-oolored glass, and is shaped some-
what like a chestnut standing upright
upon its broad end. There Is a broad
bottomed bottle which held Madeira in
Charleston in 1910, and a Viennese bottle
l25 years old, whose slender, graceful
curves have been supplanted to-day by
a more commercial shape. The first Amer
lean gin-bottle, from the Schuchardt es-
tate, has a pouter-pigeon shape which is
delightful to the eye.
Among the later bottles are some which
constituted the product of the bottle
makers art when impressed glass first
came into use. On each side figures are
moulded into the glass with that gay
liberty of delineation which must have
taken possession OF the glassworker when
he found that he could give expression
to his a1d site Instinct. There are
number of railroad bottles" the rail-
road being at that time Gas now. to
those who follow Wall St<eeD most IN
the public eye. On one a wagon running
on rails and drawn by horse is depicted
on both sides with the motto: Success
to the Railroad" On another the same
primitive arrangements are shown com
memorating the railroad at Lowell, and
on the reverse of the bottle a spread eagle
embedded In thirteen stars.
George Washington figures on one bottle
upon the reverse of which was Ben.
Taylor who, so says the glass. never
surrenders." A spread eagle and what
appears to be a masonic shrine; a fruit
basket and horn of plenty and two trees
one in leaf, the other bare representing
Summer and "Winter" are other two
faced designs. A large round bottle,
which in these days would contain Hol-
land gin. is impressed with a series OF
monks at their prayers. II was called
the Apostles bottle" but II drew fire
from the Pope, who had It put, by edict,
out of general use.