p. 192 | CURIOSITY OF COMMERCE

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA · Apr 22, 1880

CURIOSITY OF COMMERCE.

WE know not what else to name this singular fact, that quite recently two ships lay in San Francisco harbor at the same time, one from Germany discharging a cargo of wine, and the other taking on a cargo of California wine for Germany. The idea of using a "foreign wine" may lead to the importation. But when we consider the great failure of the grape crop in Europe, and the fact that the so-called wine is largely manufactured in Germany into which not a particle of grape juice is introduced, we readily see why the Germans, who prefer grape wine, seek to make the exchange. But tipplers of wine or any other alcoholic liquors do not know what they are drinking.