The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-11-12
THE VALUABLE KOLA NUT
So Precious that Fifty win
Buy a Wife.
A Tropical Product that is Put to o
Large Variety of Uses.

The Cola Tor Kola) nut of tropical
West Africa, is attracting great deal
of attention and, if the representations
made concerning it are correct, is a
valuable addition to the food and med.
icine Of the world.
For long time the Kolo Nut
which grows collectively in a follicle,
and is something like fattened chest
nut-has been used both as food and
medicine by the natives of Guinea,
who have also attached to it a goodly
amount of superstition. The nuts
form considerable article of trade
amongst the negroes, by whom they
are held in much esteem. so much So
that fifty of them were once sufficient
topurchase wife. The nuts have long
held a reputation for allaying thirst.
promoting digestion, and staying hun
ger. They are also said to have the
singular property of clarifying beer
and spirits and of greatly imp owing
the beer, and there Is no question, ac-
cording to good authorities, of their
effectiveness in making foul water
clear and healthful, and rendering
tainted meat edible. The action of the
Kola nut in clarifying foul water, is
doubtless owing to the mucilage
which the nut contains, which acts in
the same way as the white of egg or
isingiass. At recent meeting of the
Linnaan Society of London one of the
members gave an interesting account
of the properties of kolo from actual
experience. He stated that the fore
man of his estate was in the habit of
getting the worse for drink every Sat-
urday,. and shortly before his services
were required, every Monday morning,
his wife used to reduce kola nut into
PASTE which the man was made to
swallow, and in thirty minutes he was
quite clear in his head again; further
it was maintained, that after the use
of the Kolo cure, drunkard cannot
return to stimulants for some days
without feeling nausea. At some of
the garrison towns native sits at the
roadside and sells the nuts as the men
pass; by the time they reach the bar.
racks they are quite clear headed, and
the stupefaction caused by drinking
spirits is gone. On the West Coast of
Africa Mahommedans and Arabs beat
the natives at drinking by chewing at
the same time a kola nut, which pre-
vents the bad effects of the liquor.
Another important use for the kola
hut has been discovered. 1t is found
that a paste of it cannot be distin-
guished from fine cocoa paste. If kola
paste is mixed with cocoa it gives a
chocolate Of superior and finer quail
ity than Caracas; if it is mixed with
three parts of low class cocoa it i'm
proves the latter, both in strength and
flavor, to an astonishing degree.
Chocolate made with kola paste is ten
times more nutritious than chocolate
made with cocoa, and one CT my cor
respondents writes me that his family
ard many of his friends have taken
the kola--chocolate and found it very
strengthening and the flavor pleasant,
and that they have taken it for moro
than year. Kola-chocolate is so nut
ritous that workman can, on a sin
gle cup taken at breakfast time, 60 on
with his work through the day with
out feeling fatigued; very little appe-
tite is felt for the midday meal, show
ing that the well-known sustaining
properties of the nut are retained ip
the paste. Cook.