Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1842-12-10
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IL Is doubtful TO whom we owe the lntrOduC. !
ton of this article of layury into our climcs. |
The plant is a native Of that part ufAraba cal !
led Yemen, but we find no mention made of it |
until the sixteenth century and it Is believed ,
that Lconhart Ranwolf, a German physician,
was the first writer who spoke of it, in work !
Published in 1873. The plant was also dcscr- |
bed by Prosper Aphinus, IN his treatise on f. |
gyptian pauts, published in 1901 and 1872 |
pictru della Nellc wrote from Constantinoplc |
in 1913, that he would teach Europe the man.
ncr in which the Turks made their cdhue This
spelling was no doubt incorrect for, in PAM
phci, printed at Oxford in 1869, in Arabic and
English, it is written kduhi or coffee. Burton
thus speaks Of It's use: "The Turks have a
drink called cofd. so named of a berry as black
as SCOT and as bitter, which they sip still of, and
sup as warm as they can suffer. They spend
much time in their coffa- houses, which are
somewhat like our ale-houses and taverns; and
there they sit chattcring and drinking, to drive
away the time, and to be merry together be-
cause they find by experience that kind of
bSA'
alncrlty."
! The first cotfte.house opened in London, WIS
in 1862. \ Turkey merchant Of tho name of
Edwards, having brought with him from the
| lcvant some coffee and Greek servant, Ire al
lowed him to prepare and sell this bevc,age
when he established house in St Michael's
alley, Cornhill, on the spot where the Virginia
| Cufiee-housc now stands. Garraway's was the
first cofee-house opened after the fire i'll 1866.
1t appears, however, that coffee was used in
France in 1910 and a sale of it was opened
at Marseies in 1911.
The introduction of this berry was furlously
opposed; and 1t appears that in rs native land
it was treated with no less severity, since, in
an Arabian Ms in the King of Frances library
coffec-houses were suppressed in the East In
1863 appcoreds pamphlet against it, en,itled"h
Cup of Coffee, or Coffee in It's colors." In 1872
tie following lines were to be foeud in another
publication, A Broadside against Coffee or the
Marriage of the Turk
Confusion huddcs all into one scene,
Like Noah's ark the clean aod the uncean
For now, alas! the drench has credit got
And he's no gent, man who drinks II not.
Then came "The WomenS petition against
Coffee" which appeared in 1874, in Which We
lind the following complaint: 1T made men
as nniruItlul the deserts whence that un-
happy berry Is said 10 be brought, 80 much so,
that the offspring OF our mighty ancestors would
dwIndc into succession OF apes and pigmles;
aud on domestic message, husband would
stop by the way to drink a couple of cups OF
coffee" 1t was then sold in convenient penny
wurths: hence coiee-houses, where wits, guid-
nu,Cs, and oilers rcsogtcd, were called penny
universities
While it had sdrcrsries, coffee was not left
, wItheHt cloTueHt advocates. Sir Henry Blount
in his OrgdHoa SGlHiS, 1869, thus speaks Of
1t This coiiee.drink has caused a great So
; briefly among all nations, Formerly apprent.
ces, clerks, &c, used to take their morning
draughts in ale, beer, or wine. wkich otter
made them unfit for business. NnV they play
l the good fellows in this waketul and civi
drink. The worthy gentleman, Sir James Mud
/ dlord, who introduced the practice hereof il
l London, deserves much respect Of the whol,
= natlon.'
b. II appears however, that the jealousy witt
which the use of coffee was viewed even 10y th
government, arose more from the nature OF tk
: conversations that took place in cohec.housc
c during moments of public excitement, tha
from the apprehension Of any injury that il
consumaton might have caused 10 the pNhII
II iroal,L in the reign Of Charles II, coffee
n houses were shut up by a proclamation. Issue
> in 1879, as the retailing of coffee "nourlshc
10 scdllon, spread liss, scaHdSised great r's
p. and might therefore bc considered ANN,
H. nuisance As a nuisance, ~ o''o,litioo ~
n, considered ns not being an ,,,,prmcrt of (,
'e canst'bition! Notw" ,s,andiuc this zach
'e!'e toriurn@ OF the letter to serve the spu
~ '"e ''o''' 'r act occasioued loud and vIolt
VI" "''' on .rnt and permission was given To II
,,sn cofee-houscs, on condition that the a'
10 lords shosid not allow any scandulous pape
containing scanduous reports against the
ort venmeut or great men, TO be read on their =
bat misses
IN The use or rather the abuse of coffee, is :
a. TO produce leyeFish heat, anxiety, pllpitatiC
ach tremb!ngs, weakness Of sight, and predisp
ton toapopexy, It's effects in checking s