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Show Old Wine. Tho oldest wine in the world was recently discovered by M. Berthetot, in the Borelly museum, at Marseilles. Among the antiquities there he found a glaaa vessel which bad been taken from an ancient Roman cemetery at Aries. The vessel bad been closed by melting the upper portion. It contained a colored liquid which analysis showed to be wine, tvith a fair percentage ol alcohol and the othar usual consti-j consti-j tuents of fermented grape juico. It iB j supposed to have been an oflerine to the dead. |