Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1857-01-09
Coffee.

have become acquainted with its properties Wber-
ever 1t has gained foohoId, its advance has been
sure IL mas never made retrograde movement,
though assaied by ecclesiastical bodies, or by col.
eges OF physicians of every school, Mohammedan
MuftIs thundered anathemas against it more than
three centuries ago the witlieSt writer's of the
Court OF Louis XIV squbbed it, The illus,ious DR..
Murray (allopathie) reproaches coffee, when ndulg-
ea IN TOO freely, with producing vertigo, trembling
OF the limbs cutaneous eruptions on The face hys.
tencs, hyPochondria, &c. Hannemann, the great
nsh priest OF homeopathy, accuses it of caus-
ing the decline OF the German (his own) race
Conee IS native OF AbyssInia, and not of Arabia
as many believe end abouuds in the province of
Katfa, whence it derives it's name The coffee tree
was not transpanted from Abyssina into Asia until
the htteenih century, when it culture was begun in
Arabia Felix, where, in the environs of Mocha, il
crows to perfection. The western world learned the
use OF coffee from the Onentals but how the Orien-
tails learned to use it is difficult question to solve
An Arabian author of the fifteenth century records
that 1t was Mufti of Alden, who in the ninth GEN.
fury, was the first tn coffee At this epoch il
was ALREADY known In Persia, where common tradi-
ton ascrlbes It's discovery to Mollah Chadely
plous Musselman, who was much troubled by drow.
slness during his nocturnal meditatons He invoked
Nohammed to come to his aid, whH caused his faith
tul Mollah to meet with goatherd, who led him 10
q coffee tree, and informed him that whenever his
goat ate OF the berry OF that tree they passed the
whole night wide awake, eapng and caperng
Inc devont Mollah prepared infusion of the
berry which, alter drinking, gave him for the whole
night most delectable state of sleeplessness. He
made known his discovery, which was adopted bv
all The derVishes and doctors of the land and the
new beverage rapidly became popular over the whole
ORIENT There are other versions of the discovery of
The use OF coffee as beverage. 1t is believed that
the derVshes learned this means OF overcoming sleep
from the Canobite Christians of Thebes and Ethiopia,
VINO adopted the practice of drinking coffee. The
MohammedaA priests soon became enemies of the
new beverage however, it led the people 10 forsake
the mosques and flock 10 the coffee houses and they
hurled the fercest .anahemas against it, but without
avail.
Before the seventeenth century, coffee was only
known by name in France, and it did not become
fashionable until Solomon Aga the Turkish ambas-
sador TO the Court of Louis XIV gave an ecat to co
fee by offering it to the high born DANES of the realm
Curiosity and vanity led them to The gas residence,
where he received them with Oriental magnfcence,
and coffee was the rage. About the same time it be.
came tavorte in Vienna, the method of lis prepara-
tion having been learned from some Turks captured
in battle. Twenty years before, it was intro NC ed
into England by British merchant, returned from
IConsantnople. In France, the coffee house became
exceedingly popular, and Notwithstanding The i'm,
mense quantities of wine drank in France there is
probably no country, except Turkey and the United
States, so thoroughly given 10 coffee. Tea is hardly
known outside OF the great cities. significant in
dex of the universal of Coffee is the fact that
what we call teaspoon, the French Invariably cali
a Cofee-spoon.
Up to the eighteenth century all the coffee which
was consumed in Europe came from Arabia, but in
} 1899 the Dutch introduced the plant into Batavia,
where 1t grew to perfection, and in 17IO plant was
sent TO the botanical gardens of Amsterdam, where
II 1ourIshed. An Oft shoot presented to Louis
XIV, who sent Ii to the Jardn des Plants and it be.
came the ancestor of all the coffee plantations in the
West Indies the French Government succeeded. in
1920, In introducing It into Martinique.
1t is uncertain when the coffee plant was carried
to Brazil, but nowhere has its growth and cultva
uon been SO extensive and rapid. There are mer-
chants living who saw the first small cargo shipped
from MO JanelIo and now that port is the largest
coffee mart IN the werd The exports from that port
for the year ending June 80, 1855, were 1852 284
bags, cot 160 pounds Poruguese) nearly onehaIf of
Which immense amounts came to the United States
Good old washed Rio" coffee is said TO be equal to
ithe best of Java.
i Chess In Wheat.
| 1t is settled principle of vegetable and animal
life, that like produces like consequently that if you
sow wheat you will reap wheat, if you oats your
product will be oats, and if you sow cheat your pro-
duct will be chess. Now, wheat is essentially diff
erent in every particular from cheat different in it's
berry, dltfTren in its stalk, anybody can see by
examination and therefore they are in their nature
altogether opposite. Moreover, if wheat produces
cheat under certain circumstances under other circum
stances cheat would re produce wheat. This be-
leVe, Is not pretended, although some of the advo
Gates OF that doctrine COnteud that if soWn it will
produce timothy, an idea no more absurd than the
other BY this same class Of persons it is also al
Legged that cheat will not reproduce itself, manifest
error which anybody can disprove who will try the
experiment. The true reason why cheat is found
IN such large quantities in fields is, that it is
either mixed with the seed ITSELF or in the earth in
which the wheat Is to be Sometimes we think
we have clean seed but examine closely, and almost
always some grains of the filthy weed are found
Again. when our wheat is cleaned on the barn floor
whatever seed cf cheat may be blown from it by the
m iYod with tho fo
the barnyard the stable, here it lies until spring,
and as very few farmers take the trouble of throwing
up their manure that it my fement, but haul it out
directly upon their fields, it there 10 produce
It's seed IN due time, and curse their future CROPS
Again, when by any of these unhappy causes, which
so often destroy the hopes of the farmer the wheat
crop is injured destroyed, the chess plant, which,
IT surrounded by strong ard healthy wheat plants,
would make but small and feeble growth, strike,
its roots downward, and bring forth lis seed upward
and spreading itself far and wide, assumes the place
OF its unfortunate rival. The result o. one seed thus
accidentally dropped, is through the whole
held. The remedy is ths--clean seed, clean fields
and well-rotted manure add to this deep piowing
and stb-solllng to prevent winter killing, and my
word Tor IT, your wheat will cease turning into cheat.
| Favor Brought by kissing.
The Keekuk Gate City relates an adventure of Mr..
Ed. H., who was .ying in wait to his love-queen
one dark night. He was dIsliked by the cruel pa
rents of Miss Rosa, and had to wait till they went
10 bed Rosa thought her parents would Use.
But after while the DR.. sought bis night cap, and
Rosa slipped off into the back parlor and sat down
| in the dark. Her mother, thinking all others had
gone to bed, lighted lamp, turned off the gas, and
| went up stairs 10 bed. But while she was standing
in the hall, at the head of the stairs she heard
gentle rap the door Fearing that the wind would
blow out her only light, she thoughtfulIy sat down
the hall, and descended to the door by its uncer-
tain light AS she threw open the door, in rushed
Ed, and seizng her in bis arms, began such a siege