The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-16
THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL. April . sge
Curios and Oddities
THE BIGGEST APRIL FOOL HOAX.
It's Passing Strangel''

THE BIGGEST APRIL FOOL HOAX
4 GLoBE-trotter delivering lecture Apr FOOLS
n Day. He said:
April fish, instead Of April fool the French form
All France, during the last March, the confec
TONERS busy making fish of all and all sub
stances fish OF chocolate, fish of tay fish of gu fish of
screre These fish sent to friends broadcast the
send valentines Valentine day. Friendles indeed
is he who, in France, gets April fish April 1.
"Hcaxes in England and America mark April's advent
The most famous hoax that Of Theodore
Hook was its perpetrator.
tThe victim Of this hoax morning to
find her hallway filled with 1000 letters Some of these
tiers offered to sell her ca others offered horse others
dog and so
sWhile She reading few Of the letters the bell
rang and in chmneysweep with six boy helpers She
tried to tell the her chmneys needed attention. and
there another ring at the bell and another detachment
Of sweeps crowded in In fact from till 10 O'Clock that
morning less than 100 chimneysweeps arrived with all
their apparatus.
cat 10 sharp, coal wagons began to Up Berners
street and down Berners they came, blocking
other locking Wheels all making for the house. From
10 till II Berners street pandemonum Of great coal
wagons.
sThen came cooks in white with white wedding cakes
borne aofta regiment Of cooks in spotess white each
smiling proudly each holding high superb wedding cake
that had been ordered for the Berners street
Wbi]e the cooks wranglng multitude Of ailors
with tape and samples They had been ordered to take
geneman's measure for seven suits
"Next horde Of undertakers who had been mott
fed that there death. s".~
Doctors lawyers, cergymen, grocers, painters
to the Berners street house, and finally scattering the
crowd fire engine and corps Of remen for the in
genious Hook had hoaxed the fire department..
This Berners street hoax believed to be the most
elaborate that has been played on April ~
WHY CHAMPAGNE COSTS so MUCH
IRON eggpogg the talk drifted to champagne.
"It's worth the money! said the bartender, "consd
erng the trouble it takes to make it. :
tFrst there's the blending Of the grape juice. Three
parts Of black to Of white juice blended with
tremendous Expert hghpaid tasters do this work
Then the liquid put in casks and refned-a long and
difficult process. =: -s. g. Ill.,. ~.
Nex it is bottled and placed in to ferment
While fementing it must be watched daily At certain
stage in the fermentation and later goes
Deep cool vault underground and there it lies eighteen
months in temperature that varies degree
''Now the bottles are placed in racks and turned five
times day for three weeks to bring up the sediment.
When the sediment has all mounted to the neck of the
bottles they opened and the sediment allowed to shoot
out ~. -. H.. 49," -~....
Given the champagne is not done It is raw at this
stage To queur Of brandy and sugar must be added
for the sweetfones.. - .---. ~. d.. -. .~ -~.
Atogether, bottle of champagne goes thru 200 differ
operations and in it's perfecting two and
half years of time And still it is often kept two three
years longer in the vaults maturing ..<