Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-11-19
Tea-How 1t I. Maae-Ana He~ We afs Peas

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Mr.. NJ. L. Geff, in avery practical an
| intelligent communication to the New forl
| Journal Of Comnaerce, thus exposes thl
manner in which tie "Outside Barbarians'
are cheated and poisoned by John Chinanal
! when he asked all to "come 10 tea:'
The Chinese, 10 meet the demands fo
Tea. are often obliged to ma ke up the stJlei
q, .sait the, eye. of the foreign barbarisn,
and If at the same time they can deceive the
palate. this is lucre gained. To accomplish
this, they use leaves, flowers, roots, barts
buds. seeds and stems of shrubs, plants and
/ trees, foreign TO the real Tea. s
GREEE-The class green is more genesZ
| ly known to be colored. To meet this pre-.
diIection among the Americans for the 'ver-
dant,' the CelestieTs Use Prnss 5ltie-ter-
fotgnide Of iron.-a deadly poison; GYPSUM
--sulphate of linse--or Plaster Of Paris, such
as our farmers use as a manure.
BLAcK.--Is .Re dregs of all that pertains
to, real Tea, It is made from the sweepings
of the. Chinese houses, consisting of the
broken leaves of all the various Teas, both
green ana black damageo and spurious.
dp 81 and dirt, cemented together with rice
water, or the serum of the blood of animals, ,
and rolled into grains. Ii for black Tea it
is colored with a preparation of iron, if for
green it is colored with Turmeric, Prus-
SIAN blue and Plaster of Paris, and in ap-
pearafce. is good imitation OF delicious
Guapoaoder Tea.
The proportion of mineral matter in the.
genuine Ter leaf, is from five to six per
cent? in the Lie Tea, from thirty seven to
forty five per cent; chiefly sand and vile i'm,
purities. -sa 80 ses s4- - a-' 2tsiAs =
This Lie Tea is imported to this country,
particularly the lying Gfnpowdet. The
writer has sample of two tho1sahd boxes
which were sold at New York Tea Sale,
al four cents per pound. and tea Judge
would, from appearances, decide IL TO be
worth fifty cents. or moro per Pound.g This
stuff. put with true green tea, will make a
mixture deietefioets III It's effects upon the
Constitution of the drinker, and makes up
real lying compound! - "+ -
Another variety from the same source cal
led little tea,' tea endings.''tea bones,'--
anomoaIistic in name, as well as quaiity--is
imported to this country for the purpose Of
adulteraiing wholesome and good tehs.-
This is the sweePings of the sHongs.' con-
sisting of the dast of green, and black
teas; passed through sieEes to make il uni
form in size. --f.e..te- e-,,s-g
There are millions Of pounds of damaged
teas, nusty, decayed, and those that were
once infused, brought TO America, and find
their way to the stomachs Of even the fas-
tidious. .-.,....z{ ~
The wild tea plant affords vast quantities
Of leaves, which are made into kind of.
miserable tea, used for adulteration. 1t is
sold from JfUe to. fifteen cents per pound, and
even more. t..--.A -.g.s, l..
The writer imported one of the tea plants
from the province of Quangton, China, for
the purpose of study. It's leaves and flow
ers are somewhat different from the cuItiva-
ted varieties, from which are collected our
good teas. The Canton teus--this the name
given to those made from the leaves of this
plant, glazed and unglazed-are wretched-
ly colored with the poisonous mixture before
alluded to. The object being to ;mpart to
them beautiful bloom to initiate the finest
kinds to the feye.' But these btoomer teas
are out of taste to the refined in judgement.
'Phe :old Buhea, (which our grandmothers
tell us about is madn from these wild leaves
and come to US under new Han1e now-a-
anys,for the same purpose above. There
are orhes adulferatons of this oar national
beverages, but / have already mentioned
enough TO show the importance Of selecting
good, pure wholesome ree. . s-