The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1882-02-04

engage extensively in fruit culture. Thousands
of apricot trees to be set out on lands hereto
fore wasted" on grain culture.
Within brief period the apricot has gained
very rapidly in public estimation. 1t is be
lieved that there will be a great demand for
small fruit trees to set in orchards as the
rain comes in sufficient quantity. The Callfor-
mia nurseries will be unable to supply the de-
mand, and a good trade will probably spring up
between this State and Eastern nurseries 1t is
the opinion of some of the best orchardists that
it is much better to plant trees from colder
climate.
DELETERIOUs EFFECTS OF COFFEE WITH
notwithstanding to the Societe Imperiale ct
Centrale d'Agricu1tHre de France, coffee is an
excellent aliment which suits most ages, tenn
peraments and constitutions, and of easy diges-
ton when its consumer is in good health; it is
also known that black coffee is a stimulant and
tonic whose intervention is advantageous after
repast tc facilitate digestion.
Milk is undeniabIy wholesome and nutritious.
Milk and coffee taken separately, not to inter
fere with each other in the stomach, are excel
lent but, what is remarkable, when mixed and
takeg2 together they constitute new compost
ton which is absolutely indigestible.
This requires explanation The skin of
animals is heterogeneous matter which by boil
ins, becomes a digestible prodNct; if it be put
lie fresh condition IN contact with tanniE it is
converted into leather, when It may no longer
be turned into alfnentary aliGaent no Amount
o. boilingwill do it. Gelatinoxs substances, put
N contact with the tannin, are affected like
the skin; they unite with it and acquire the
property of resisting the effect of the gastric
Juice. .
Now, the infusion of coffee Us rich III tannin,
hence It's mixture with mifs has the imme
diate result of transforming the Gaseous part and
the albumen that it contains into kind Of
leather undeeonaposable and indigestible, like
that made in a tan pit. The composition thus
produced remains in the stomach until new ali
ment comes to digolace and force it Though the
lower erifice OfFthe stomach into the iatestines-
The sugar and bread with VIII oh this mixture is
charged digest all the same, as well as the gela-
tinous=substanoes, if the coffee is not used in
such, quantity as to render them inert.
The-stomach isrthus ballassed with a kind of
thin milk, in which the gastric juice Chat it &C.
.cretes constantly is quickly diluted in weaken
ing it's stimulating action on the membranes
from which it comes, and the Cesult is that the
want. Of food makes itself more slowly felt; for
ahis want, in general, is only developed when
raahe stomach is empty. The consumer is thus
deceived by the feeling of his stomach.
The use of this mixture is SON etimes attended
With dkagreeabBe results. Those who are not
accustomed to it frequently undergo parging
though indigestion, and those who are, often
eventually have inflammation of ahe stomach or
one of the maladies to which this organ is sub
jest nnder the abuse thus put upon it. Women
especially, from theirdelieate organization suffer
in the consumption of coffee with milk. To
dissnade them from its use it would be well to
make them understand that cafe az Iait is moth
ing liz fact but leather soup.