The Portage County Democrat. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-08-24


be sent home ON speculation: The price was
about fifts or sixty shillinqs bE the pound; and
two pounds three ounces Of the best tea was
not deemed an uniting present from the East
India Company to the King But 90 sreatlv
has the export alton increased that now more
than fifteen thousand tons of shippjpe are em.
pIoyed in its Transportation, while il is con
suned at The present moment by probably not
less than five hundred millions of men,. Still,
SO vast is the home consumption. that it is al /
legged thai, were Europeans and Americans to-
abandon its use altogether. the price would not
be much diminished in China.
n,,v.. -. g.. r..a = rn.,.,a
lp the early part of The seventeenth centu
sry. nrobably little before tea WAS introduce.
ed as that beverage is first spokep of as being
sold at the coffee. houses: 1t ia said the first
coffee house keeper5 in London was a Greek
servant. named Pasoua. brought to England
%, Turkish merchant 10 make his coffee -.
It appears to have been frst used as drink
at Adea. thence introduced into Egypt, and
thence into Turkey. where il is sstili very much
ia use. DR. Iiyipcsteo. the African traveller
mentions that The coffee tree WAS taken by the
Jesuit missionaries to the western coast of
Africa, where ii has since become naturaiized
and coveva vast snaces of waste land MANY
sermons against coffee drinking are extant.
written at the time when j, was introduced
;uto Eurone. as there are also manv sermons
] o,.;,s. snok;no sss.s,. 50 81.
=, ,,..ts.,L. d - -.
n Tbssa 60 ord Nc eo,amnnas, and most mic
lcb;evons Of onal;fv;np words To the irst.
lhow many regulations have fallen sacrifice
Ito the last what wrecked possibilities and an
1auenehable remorses are anchored. We turn
Il with suspicion from the eulogiser who inter
!, Esperses his commentators with but-whe
! savs. he is a fine fellow. but-or she is nice
/ woman. but-. An. what stabs are given t.
i innocence through this insinuating little word
!. The tongue seems to frd it with instinctiv
Ieyil propensity. Think of it reader-did 70,
! ever hear snersan discuss the character r
,,,,,;,,sn, n.;,,, .h;. anai;fs;n b.,2A
No n,st,er bo,v s,,as,narall, renntabla am;ahlt
!, Eor mer;tor;ons sne cranny in his or her char
q acter will be faund in which to lodge a de
q l,ract;nu 5b,,t We ara manifestfv ali ;ealou
y ofscontemnoraneous perfeetion-nossibly bt
Icanse ue lack n ourrselves-an1 SO we nr
Z ttb;s DRAG upou our speiehbors friends. an
i even kindred. We are Quick enough to a,
!. oer ;f others .but, ,,s. vet we are nernetual
Idl .but ing Others. Preserve us from all sur
ct covert weaponsl IF we are to be assauits
at 1--WE prefer al, undisguised blow We scorn Ii
who fins shafts of his nraise wi,
Or no;sonous buts and Ifs. But for this or m
,yf .and = te AID = ba a;an,t-. ,hessa,e n
bel t,,sst nor. cba.o.,er t,,a
a, ho,a oran ea,seboods IT,.e,ed IN .onas
By not,on;a;no tbv thew a,e IKE the t;oa
as nav all velvet to the seeming INIT all ,iea
in 10 the touch. Again and againn we saw. n,
nd f,o7,, tba os,, of tba ,cnnno ttat 900
ebl l,,lant;fn, ;f. .,,4 b,,,.f
an .,.....55IT.1--, '4..-s7-..:G.- :.
err narl t,Ine eee. ,ar. moot. .on,,,,a,, in !,
srg SONS Of delicate. refined. or efemipate, patu
Ide tgcbt b,ne and mncb more orav avea in ,
nr n oo,;.a n,aa,;s,, Cos NO 80,
,na IN. = 80 ~ n.
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s9s'' $40 - o- e =
!, fe.s0nal - sas W.. s,,. ehslies
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