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Show Something About "Zanto Currants." Tho word currant is said to be a corruption cor-ruption of Corinth, a city from which onco came nil the Greek currants. Tho currants, commonly called zante, nro really raisins, produced from a grape that grows no larger than peas, like the American wild or fox grapes, nnd hangs in bunches only three inches long. These grapes are dried in tho sun, and then stored iu bulk, whero the sugar that exudes from them makes them into masses so compact that they have to bo dug apart by force when wanted. They nro prepared for shipment by beinj put into casks nnd packed into a solid mass by being trodden by tlio feet of the natives. na-tives. New York Sun. |