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to give the porter its dark color, and the sugar content is high. Its alcoholic content runs between 5 and 6%.

Rhine Wine, as its name indicates, is of German origin and comes from the region of the valley of the Rhine River. Generally it contains from 7 to 10% of alcohol. A few kinds, however, run as high as 13%. The grape district is perhaps the furthest north in which wine grapes are grown in Europe. Over-ripe grapes are used for this wine, and they are hand selected. The method of manufacture is similar to that followed in making Sauterne wine. Usually the wine is light, rather colorless, and dry, but of good quality and bouquet. Rum is a liquor distilled from fermented molasses, cane sugar syrup, or in fact any cane sugar ferment. It probably originated in the West Indian Islands, whence comes the most of it to-day, such as Bacardi, Jamaica, etc. It is of a dark brown color, produced either by ageing in wood or the introduction of carmel. Inferior rum is produced by mixing rum essence with spirits of high rectification. The alcoholic content of rum runs between 65 and 82% by volume. Rye Whiskey is essentially an American whiskey, and is dis tinguished from the other American whiskey, Bourbon (which see), by the fact that the main ferment base is rye instead of corn or maize. (See Whiskey.) Sauterne Wine is named for the French district in which it is produced, Sauterne, and is white, sweet and well bou- queted. It is not made in the manner for red wines as the grapes, which are white, are over-ripe and withered'