30 / 102
candie
light,
saine
as
candling
eggs,
to
separate
the
defective
bottles.
The
defective
bottles
are
those
from
which
the
sédi-
ment
lias
not
completely
disappeared,
or
with
pièces
of
cork,
etc.
After
this
process
the
bottles
are
ready
to
be
dressed
up
for
inarket
with
a
fancy
cap
or
foil,
handsome
labels,
and
wrapped
in
neat
tissue
paper,
to
be
cased
np
in
cases
of
twelve
bottles
or
twenty-four
half
bottles,
and
usually
sell
at
§12.00
and
$14.00
per
case,
np
to
$22.00
and
$24.00
per
case.
One
Ohio
firni
commanding
the
price
of
$22.00
and
$21.00
per
case
for
one
of
their
brands,
and
$11.00
and
$16.00
for
another.
American
Champagnes
or
sparkiing
wines
are
coming
to
the
front
very
rapidly,
owing
to
many
reasons,
viz
:
American
pnsh
and
enterprise;
the
American
article
lias
a
natnral
bou-
qnet
of
its
own,
given
it
by
the
grape,
and
not
added
as
in
the
iniported
article
;
the
eifervescense
is
snperior,
and
the
methods
used
are
identicaL;
and
last,
but
not
least,
the
différence in
price
at
which
the
two
articles
are
sold.
The
iniported
article
costs
no
more
to
prodnce
than
the
home
prodnct,
but
with
$9.60
duty
added,
$2.00
consnlar
fees,
$1.00
transportation,
and
$10.00
at
least
added
by
the
lavish
way
in
which
they
are
boomed,
pins
the
original
cost
of
§9.00
per
case
for
twenty-four
half
bottles,
and
the
amount
of
$31.60
is
completed,
about
the
average
cost
of
the
iniported
article.
The
above
short
pernsal
on
the
production
of
Champagne
covers
it
in
gênerai,
but
the
fact
mnst
not
be
overlooked
that
the
real
work
occupies
a
space
of
time
of
tvo
and
one-half
to
three
years,
and
each
bottle
is
handled
from
160
to
210
tinies,
and
has
been
under
the
diligent
care
of
careful
supervision
contin-
ually;
and
the
easiest
and
most
pleasing
opération
is
the
last,
that
of
popping
the
cork
to
the
ceiling,
and
toasting
ail
your
friends
to
a
long
life
and
a
merry
one.