Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1871 — Pleasant Information for Tipplers. [ARTICLE]

Pleasant Information for Tipplers.

The black ant* of Sweden are a formida'ble race of workers, much larger than any we have here. They make sad havoe with the grains, and as they travel in processions, each with a wheat grain or some other dainty for winter store, they present a formidable array—curious spectacle for the philosopher. The sting of these animals is veiy sharp, and some what poisonous. The best policy to observe is, when meeting a procession of these workers, to turn aside and give them the right of way. for they will grip their grain tightly, ana give sting after sting, losing very little timd for revenge, and then on to their wellordered, well stored homes. The Swedes have learned a way of utilizing these little animals, sting and all. They waylay them on these Journeys, catch them by hand, in nets and sieves, anyway to get them, and plump they go into the seething brandy distillery, and on them depends the peculiar flavor of Swedish brandy. It is so smooth, so oily, so pungent; has such a delicious flavtfr; in snort, is everything enchanting; and then they have the loveliest little glasses, that hold a thimble still, so thin, fragile, and beautifully artistic, that they would almost tempt an ascetic to drink anil catch the de vine afflatus, but it only takes one drink to intoxicate, and then delirium tremens soonfollows. We haveseen a lady jump from the table and scream because a red ant ran across her plate, but she would sin this brandy from the little glass, and extol its flavor. t In Newark cockroaches are used very extensively in the manufacture of delicious wines, which are made there from cider, poor whiskey, logwood and other aboffiinations.—Exchange.