Show r I Some So e Facts At About out Sugar I 1 1 t I Tho The free use of or sugar as we know It tt ItIs Itla Is la a n. modern phenomenon Apparently the tIme ancients worl ere unfamiliar with It in inthe the timo form forni In which we uso use it It Il end and later It was yas mei- mei merl meily ly an expensive o luxury Some Somo interesting data about the tho manu Inane manufacture lecture facture use and cost of ot sugar aro given Riven in Cosmos Pails ls ta l May us IlS follows I Cane ClIno sugar sus was mu made o by bC tho lie Chinese Chi nose nese at a very remote epoch In Jn tho limo west is was wis known much later JatoI Pliny Varro and Toucan Lucan r among tho lImo Romans at the beginning of or our era Just niche mention of ot it It Jt and It was vaa thou then known no n under tho the names of or Indian Ball Asian Aslan honey and Arabian or Indian Juice In Jn 1000 tho the ori theIr arrival I t ib oi Ul in r firSt first time time and ami It h became p. p p pt t of oC the he soldiery ration In time tho toll In centuries sugar CAno cane was vas Introduced I Into tho the Island of Cyprus Cyprus' in tho the Nil Nile Delta on tho the north shore ot or Africa as liS asfar asfar far Car as Gibraltar Into Sicily nu and into I the kingdom kl of ot Naples then into In to Spain in lit be fifteenth century an and thence Into l and anti tho tiac Canaries In 1611 the French took tok it to Guadeloupe Guadeloupe loupe and all shortly afterward to Martinique Martin ique and LouisIana The Tho Portuguese c Introduced It into Brazil and tho the En English Eng Eng- lish into Jamaica According to 10 tho the n as quoted In tho the nolo halo from which wo vo havo boon been translating tho cost or of at al London and Paris from the middle of thin iho thirteenth century con con- tur tury to th the Did end nd of or the nineteenth was wasas wasas wasas as follows the tho figures gure In tho time tabio bo- bo I In altered to dollars ollars and cents per por pound pound- Year London London London Paris Purls 1260 1512 0 62 1300 1100 2 27 27 7 f 1550 1650 JO 13 HO L l iras 1372 o HOO 1400 10 0 73 1 G 1700 0 OIS IS 1150 i 7 1760 lIl sll 1482 1800 OH 1500 OO OiS tion Ion In JI IG 1650 O It Il cost JO 10 francs 2 to send pounds hounds of or ordinary su sugar ur from Antwerp verll to London London Lon Lout don dun tho limo transportation of or Urt ramt lii pounds by sea 11 from frosts to 10 0 Ant cost coat t 1 francs I It it In is known that tilt lisa th merit of ur point point- Jn int out A n. vet vo t principle In Inba ba bet t belongs to do J terras 1605 l GU gardener nor r to II IV The first b IJ Ot sugar factory was 11 emits lal In lii 1976 1116 In the environs en of or Berlin Ber Der- lin by time the chemist In Jn Prance during the tho Continental blockade tho Increase of oC the tho price prIen or of sugar u r. r which tt thou then cost i f fi francs ratios a pound WitS Wt of su sugar a factories on out January 2 2 BenjamIn a n. su sugni- sugni ar al' refiner of Paris offered for time tile first HamI Ham Ham- I of native t su sugar u a. a with willi th time the assertion asser asser- tion that time tho sugar sUJ industry ry vas then lien under way at nt Pisy Pass Translation tion made mudo for fos' tho l Litot-ary Litot Digest |