A container for a sparkling beverage which comprises, on its inside bottom portion or surface, the bubble generating means having a bubble generating portion for generating bubbles in such a manner that an aggregation of bubbles forms substantially the same shape as the mark on the surface of a beverage. The cutter 224 cuts the strip into discrete labels, which are fed to a tag application station 226. The general features include low pin count, simple packet based transfer protocol for memory mapped access, symmetric operation, simple block code formatting, supports both host to peripheral and peer to peer transactions, and support multiple outstanding transactions. A method of making the glass-ceramic is also provided. Then, it is exported from the switching device to the host side and is processed by the application software, which can support the format of the COM port. The light-receiving optical system includes a plurality of light-guiding optical systems, so that the measuring light which is reflected by the object is selectively incident on an end of one of the plurality of light-guiding optical systems in accordance with the distance from the surveying instrument to the object.