Show cockroaches we have often heard it asked what end these disgusting creatures serve in the economy of nature or in other words what they are good for we have just learned it will hardly be believed but we assert it as a fact that the manufacturers of sherry and madeira wine communicate to these liquors their peculiar flavor by an infusion of baked cockroaches which interesting insects or big bugs bu s 11 are roasted in noven set apart for this most odorous and peculiar use we hope our veracity will not be impeached as we ve have for authority one of the most extensive and respectable wine vine merchants in this city who in confirmation fir mation of the above fact related to us that a friend of his not content with the delicate flavor thus imparted by the manufacturers I 1 had every day brought to him for dinner a live cockroach with which he amused himself and pampered his appetite by dipping it up and aud down in his glass of madeira literary american |