Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1891 — An Antique Custom. [ARTICLE]

An Antique Custom.

The English people are very fond of keeping up antique customs. In olden times the Fruiterers’ Company of London annually presented twelve baskets of apples to the Lord Mayor, and the Lady Mayoress put a bottle of wine in each of the empty baskets for the carriers, who were also given a dinner. Of late years pineapples, nectarines, peaches, and other choice fruits have been substituted for apples, and thia year the ceremony was observed Oct. 1. t