Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1894 — Thought He Knew Sugar. [ARTICLE]

Thought He Knew Sugar.

A rather good joke is going the rounds in St. John, at the expense of the representative of a sugar rerefinery. Calling on a merchant be found the latter examining a sample of what he (the new comer) took to be a granulated sugar sample. Scenting competition from a new quarter, he assumed a critical air and sniffed at the sample, took some of it in his fingers, and with the air of a connoisseur assured the merchant that there was no centrifugal in it, and that it was not worth over three cents. He wag quite sure his company could duplicate it at a very low figure. When he finally offered to take a sample and send to his people for that purpose, the owner of the sample, who was also present, ob« served that that would hardly be necessary, as this particular article came from the Windsor Salt Works. There was a sudden and awful silence for a minute. It was broken by the merchant, who had been laboriously holding his sides as long as he could. —Maritime Grocer.