The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-01-25
At the Table A Glimpse at the Literature
of Tea and Coffee

New York Evening Post.
Profound treaties have been written,
wordy arguments have been wasted,
and sarcastic explosives leveled gener-
ally about the mental as well as the
physical influence of tea and coffee up
on civilized people, The English, who
generally take to tea for breakfast, are
becoming gradually converted to cof-
fee, but they are valiant tea drinkers
yet, although it makes the flesh ilabby
and skin wrinkled. The two decoctions
offered unfailing subjects for the book
writers andreyicwers to quarrel over I'M
til the famous Llebig with his chemical
discoveries asserted that tea and coffee
had become neCesSaries Of life to whole
nations, but especially essential to the
poorer classes, supplying void not
readily filled up by the limited supply
of good meats and wholesome food gem
orally.
Coffee and tea were introduced into
England like Romulus and Remus, and
were each in turn relentlcssly abused,
not only by the people, but 10y the State.
Coffee inherited the title OF "hell broth"
Tea was called rank poison but rs q
refuge for the wits of the day from
smaller fry, the coffee houses from the
start We're always enormously patron
lied. In 1860 that clever and comfort
able old body, Pepys, wrote:
II did send for a cup of tea Ga China
drink of which had never drank be-
fnp, - and l'y an, a. AZ In
again wrote; "Home, asl there found
my wife making of tea, Il drink which
Mr.. Polling, the potticary, tells her is
good for her cold and dchuXions.n
This precious drug the good old lady
was becoming SO happy over thepot-
ticaly has sold her at Il irightful price,
at the very loweSt-a crown for an
ounce; but Pepys was thereafter great
ly comforted by hand-bll of certain
Garway of Exchange alley, who now
sold tea at so low prices as los to 5Os
a pound. Many noblemen, phySic-
ians and surgeons rcSOrtod to his house
to drink thereof. Dr. johnson was IA
most Unsuitable tca-drinker, Among
his early tea-drinking day memories
was one of Garrack, who, though he
entertained an inordinate love for the
cheering cup, when taking tea with
Peg Wellington scolded her for making
it too strong while it was 50 costly.
Later, pleasant tea talks OF the Doctor
describes himself rs ~ hardened and
shameless tea-drinkcr,who has ormany
years diluted his meals with only the
infusion of this fascinating plant; whose
| kettle has scarcely time to cool; who
with tea amuses himself in the evenings
and solaccS the midnight and welcomes
night. y Who nowadays can fancy u
Mistress Pio2zi making the precious
beverage for II DrfJohnson at 4 o'clock
in the morning ahd listening to his
morning talk without Il sign of impa-
ticnce or feeling bored to say nothing
Of feeling sleepy?
The Germans are masters in the art
of preparing coffee, especially the Ger
man SardUS Like the French, they
take coffee without milk, at any time
during the day, assisted by a cigar; IS
I puciaily is this mode desirable for the
sedentaly life. Coffee contains n sub
stance called THEY'VE, volatile matter
one needs to be cautious in retaining
during heprocrsS of preparation. An
ounce Of good tea contains about ten
grain, of tiieye, quite sufficient to ere
ate very unpleasant symptoms, some
thing like over eXhilaration, or,to place
it mildly, iutoNicaton. Tea drinkers
can therefore calculate how much tea
to drink as from three to four grains of
thciye are simply sufficient for u day,
and therefore three ounces a week is
really more than one should consume
A lriar Of Il monasIry in Arabia no.
lccd that the goats were remarkably
agile and brisk after eating of the coffee
tree, 50 he made his lethargic monks
tryit, The success was marvellous; and
| this is our OF the many assigned origins
of the use of the berry, which soon
found its way to Europe,
| .