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Title: Paris herself again in 1878-9
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Sala, George Augustus, 1828-1895
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Publisher: London : Remington and Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ks, and Allsopps2)ale ale—the great firm of Burton-on-Trent are not exhibitors, buttheir beer is to be found at any buffet in the parks of the Troca-dero and the Champ de Mars—the whole world over, not only inthe great centres of civilisation, but in the remotest and mostbarbarous regions. Biscuits and chocolate are about the mostportable articles of sustenance that a traveller in strange lands cancany with him ; and many a wanderer in distant climes may havebeen able to stave off starvation by means of a tin of Huntley &Palmers Sponge Busks, Diets, Abernethys, or Yachts.The French have come frankly to acknowledge our preeminenceas biscuit manufacturers. It is the machinery, some say, thatenables les Anglais to excel in this particular branch of production.It is the purity of the flour, the delicacy of the manipulation, therichness of the sugar. It is le Libre Echange, for no doubt Free-trade has realty had something to do with the prodigious develop-ment of our biscuit trade.
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No gold medal, me 1 No ; copper-coloured exhibitors only get copper medals.

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