French Claret

- Claret is peanng trom the woriu. inere is not much of it left. Thcro is now scarcely ;my of it made. What is made at present - what is ut this moment being made wholesale throughout the Medoc - is not claret at all, taut an ingrnious liquor eompounded almost exclusivcly of Spanish and Italian, bnt especialïy II alian wines, doctored and flavored, and thcn aeni to the simple foreigner as the real gpnodnce of Bordeaux. The faet U Uut the phylloxera has gimply ruined nine tentha of the vine in that Medoc district which alone produces the Bordeaux wine which we cal] claret; butas people -till insist uponhavingsomelhing called iiy that name the Medoc winegrower fabricates it for them. Claret i good xvhcn yon can get it, but just now it is -nt fiVe hundred to one against gettin- it l a"' w'1:ltevor nlay Be the name giventoth11'011'101 m 1 In some parts of' island, of An" ligua, one of the Britton fS there are most remarkable "1PIl'& oi stone foreste. These trees are any instanees of great size, presenting" rious sight with living birds percned u, 00 their leafless and stony limbs. A Turk had rather see two camels WTesÜe than two men. Tnay kick up more dust than men do, and'that's the Turk's idea of bloody fighting.