Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1881 — What is Wise Made Of? [ARTICLE]

What is Wise Made Of?

As wkieMnercbants are petitioning the French government to put a stop to the manufacture of artificial wines, the petinonbrs asserting that not onethird of the Wine used in Paris is made of grapes, the Americans who turn up their the juice of our own grapes wil|,liaturaUy wonder what the spurious Ftonch wines are made of. An exehanM says that there are a number of large factories near Paris in which whißa are made from rotten apples, damaged dried fruits of all kinds, beets and spoiled molasses. But there are not enough of these materials to make as much wine aa is required by foreign trade. Turnip juice has been worked over into wine, and American cider is the basis of millions of bottles of champagne, but good apples and turnips are too costly to be wasted on cheap wines, such as most Americans buy. Some of the temperance societies might find the returns they are after by satisfying public curiosity, about wnat wines are made of. ' . ~ j The Hungerford national bank of Adams, N. Y., has gone into liquidation.