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may venture to vie with France at least, altkough the 

 temerity of the act is almost equal to that, which once 

 prompted us to cross bayonets with the veterans 

 of King George the Third, of pious memory. Not 

 alone in the production of wine is this great staple 

 valuable. The seeds of grapes are eaten by birds 

 and fowls ; and a fine fi.xed oil, similar to olive oil, 

 is made from them in Parma, Lombardy, and other 

 parts of Italy, suitable either for cooking; eating or 

 burning in lamps. The cuttings are always salable 

 to propagate new vineyards ; cattle are fond of the 

 leaves; the finest printer's ink is made from the 

 charred stalks of old vines, and from the lees of 

 wine we get cream of tartar, which no family 

 should be without And then the Raisins ! whether 

 it be from the enormous crop of children raised 

 annually in our states, or from some other unknown 

 reason, we import more raisins than all the rest of 

 the world put together ! Three times as many as 

 Englarxd, seven and a half times as many as 

 France, thirteen times as many as Germany, four- 

 teen times as many as Holland, twenty-one and a 

 quarter as many as Italy, and two hundred and 

 fifty times as many as Ms majesty the Czar. To 

 the rising generation, or citizens in the pod, this is 

 of more consequence than all the rest.'' 



Matter like the foregoing might be multiplied, but 

 it may be best to refrain, for should it happen to 

 induce an excitement in Yankeedom like the Eohan 

 or Multicaulis frenzy, the result would be no more 

 desirable, than the blame of being the innocent 



