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The Daily Dispatch: January 13, 1865., [Electronic resource], French statistics. (search)
er suckling pilings. To wash down this meat victual the French folks have wine, got from six million, two hundred and fifty thousand acres of vineyards, whose average product, as this year for example, amounts to one thousand three hundred and twenty millions, five hundred and seventy-six thousand gallons — multiply by five for the bottles. Of this blessed abundance of drink, to be sure some small rivulets run down foreign throats; but that is a detail. The large estimate of exports is only a little over three million hectoliters, or about one-twentieth part of the whole product; distillation into brandy takes up say twice as much more; the rest is drunk in France. And with all that, do you know that we have very good authority for the woeful belief that we here in Paris drink one-third at least more wine than ever crosses the octopi boundary; that is, one bottle is composed of two parts of grape juice and one part of Seine water, drugs, deviltry and Mackay mixture generally.