The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-12-14
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C0flee IL the name given TO tbt
seeds contained in the berries of til,
coffee plant, and likewise to the bev
erage prepared best by displacement
with boiling water.
The coffee plant has for i1suutiv'
region the Ethiopian highlands
from whence it was taken in th,
fifteenth century to the highland.
OF Yemen, a province of Arabit
Felix, where considerable attention
has long been paid to its culture
1t grows there on hills described by
Nicbuhr as being soaked with rair
every day from the beginning o
June to the end of September, which
is carefully collected for the pur,
pose Of irrigation during the dry
season. 1t thriyes in warm situa.
tons upon the slopes of hills and is
cultivated throughout the tropics
the principal countries being Brazil
Central America, Ceylon, the EasI
and West Indies, and some OF the
Pacific islands.
The coffee plant attains the height
OF Is to 30 feet. The trunk is COW
cred with a grayish bark and the
branches stand against each other
on opposite sides Of the trunk, the
lower spreading, the upper some
what declining and gradually d.
minishing in length as they ascend,
so as to present a pyramidal sums
nit. The leaves-oblong, ovate
and pointed-also are opposite.
They are four or FIVE inches long,
smooth and shining, of a dark.
green color on the upper surface,
paler beneath. The flowers are
white, grow in thick clusters around
the branches, emitting an odor not
unlike that of the jassamine. The
fruit is a roundish berry, about the
size OF a cherry, at first green, then
red, and when mature dark purple.
1t con aims TWO seeds surrounded bv
a pavchment~like pulamen and en-
closed in Il ~yeIlowish pulp, which is
very sweet and quite palalable.
These seeds deprived of their 0
erlpg constitute the coffee of cons
merce. They consist of a horny,
yellow, blush or greenish albumeu,
which is covered on one side lNt
fat on the other, with a Longitude.
nal furlow.
The first description of the coffee
plant was given by Prosper Alpin-
les, a Venetian physician, celebrated
for his skill in medicine and botany,
in his works De Plants Egypt and
De Medecina Egyp:iorum, 1891
and 1892.
The first English writer who
makes d mention of the plant is
Burton, in his Anatomy Of MeIan>
choly,' 1921.
The fl st coffec,house in London
opened in the Til Yard, in the
year 1862.
The introduction of coffee as o
beverage vas (uriously opposed In
1863 appeared a pamphlet against
it, entitled "A Cup of Coffee, or
Coffee in its Colours" In 1872 the
following lines were TO be found in
another publication, "A Broadside
against Coffee, or the Marriage OF
the Turk
Contusiontt idIes all into enc scene,
Like NOah's ark, the clean and the %unclean,
For now, alas' the drench has credit got,
And he's no gentleman who drinks it not.
Then came 1.-THE Womcn's l'eti.
ion against Coffee" which appeared
II 1914, in which We find the fol-
owing complaint: st made men
Is u%nlruitful as the deserts whence
hat unhappy berry is said to be
brought, SO much so that the Off
IpringS of our ancestors would
iwindle into a succession of apes
md pigmies, and on a domestic
Message a husband would stop bv .
he way TO drink a couple of cups
If Coffee" ,
In the reign of Charles II. coffee
louses were shut up by a proc'a. {
nation issued in 1915, as the retail
ng of coffee "nourished sedition,
pread lies, scandaIized great man.
md might therefore be considered a
ommon nuisance" !
In spite of the hostility manifest. $
d against its use coffee was not :
without eloquent advocates. !
ir Henry Blount, in his Organon !
1859, thus speaks Of it.:
This coffee-drink has caused a a
.reat sObriety among all nations. Z
'ormerly apprentices, clerks, etc., g.
sed to take their morning draughts C
4 ale, beer or wine, which often J
lade them unfit for business. Now /
ley play the good fellows in this r. r
'akelul and civil drink. The ri
gentleman, Sir James Mud, e
ford, who introduced thereof in ii
ondon, deserves much respect of q
lie whole nation. IA
The following enconium upon o 81
,ffee is said to have been written at
7 Abdal Hader Anasari Djerzeri IT
.anbali, son of Mohammed: di
20 coffeei thou dispelIest the fi =
res OF the great; thou bringest III
lex those who wander from the "a