Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1887 — Real and Artificial Cider. [ARTICLE]

Real and Artificial Cider.

Among the vehicles on the market •was a one-horse wagon in which was a barrel of cider. A citizen, who was evidently spying around for something of the sort, approached the owner of the cider and asked: “Is your cider new ?” “Of course.” “Made it out of apples ?” “Certainly I did. ” “Reduce it with water?” “No, sir.” “Are those straws around the bung real wheat straws from the farm, or only artificial?” “What do you take me for ?” indignantly exclaimed the farmer. “Keep cool, my friend. Were the apples windfalls or regular cider apples ?” “You go on. I don’t believe you ever saw cider made!” “Ah, old boy, there’s the pinch! I used to make 200 barrels a year in a cellar up the street, and the only use we made of apples was to keep a peck in the window up stairs for a blind. I’m buying now, and that’s why I’m so particular.”— Detroit Free Press. The Argentine Republic is soon to have a weather bureau equipped with forty-five observatories in different .parts of the country.