, 1856-12-19

hammedan muftis thundered anathemas
against it more than three centuries ago;
the wittiest writers Of the court Of Louis
XVI. squibbed it. The illustrious DR..
Murray, (allopathic,) reproached coffee,
when indulged in too freely, with produe-
ing vertigo, trembling Of the limbs, cuta-
neous eruptions on the face, Mysteries, by
pocondria, &c. Hahnemann, the great
high priest of homeopathy, accuses it even
of causing the decline Of the German This
OWN race. as-...- o.
Coffee is native of Abyssinia, and not
of Arabia, as many believe, and abounds
in the province of Kaffa, whence 1t derives
IS name. The coffee tree was not trans
planted from Abyssinia into Aisle until the
fifteen the century, when its culture was com
menccd in Arabia Felix, where, in the en-
virons of Mocha, it grows to perfection
The western world learned the use ofeofIee
from the Orienials; but how the 0rientals
learned to use it is difficult question to,
solve. An Arabian author of the fifteenth
century records that 1t was Mutt Of
Alden, who, in the ninth century, was tho
first to use coffee. AT this epoch it Vaar
already known in Persia where conn. "a
tradition ascrbes its discovery to one Mol
lah ChadelIy, pious Mussulman, who was
much troubled with drowsiness during bis
nocturnal meditations. He invoked Ma
homet to come to his aid, who caused his
faithful Molah to meet with goat herd,
who led him to a coffee tree, and informed
him that whenever his goats ate Of the ber-
ry Of THAT tree, they passed the whole night
wide awake, leaping and capering.
The devout Mollah prepared an infusion
of the berry which, after drinking, gavd
him the whole night most delectabls state
of sleeplessness. He made known bis dis
covery, which was adopted by all the doc
tors and dervishes Of the land, aud the new
beverage rapidly became popular over the
whole Orient. There are other versions
of the discovery Of the use Of coffee as q
beverage. 1t is believed that the derVishes
learned this means Of overcoming sleep
from the Cenobite Christians Of Thebes and
Ethiopia, who adopted the practice Of
drinking coffee. Mohammedan priests soon
became enemies of the new beverage, how
ever, as it led the people to fo7sake the
mosques and flock to the coffee houses, and
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ing IL 70 tne nign,oorn sanes u .he rsAlla.
curiosity anu VANITY leu . .ne.n " sne Asss ~
resioenee, wnGre nc recsI'eu s,'e.n VIII
orlen"l lnaguincence, aaS Sone1 "ss sne
rage. AoV9. W sne saslle .p s.lae SeSae =.
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Turks captured in battle. Twenty wears
before. il was introduced into England by
British merchant, returned from Constan-
tnople.
Tn France. the coffee-house became ex.
ceedinply popular. and notwithstanding
the immense quantities of wine drank IN
France. there Is probably no country except
Turkey and the United States, 50 thor
ourhly given to coffee. Tea is hardly
known outside of the great cities. a sig,
ui6cant index of tho universal use Of coffee
is the fact that, what we call teaspoon,