The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-12-04
TEA, COFFEE AND COCOA

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Roasted coffee is an excellent disinfect-
ant.
The sassafras tree is variety of the
laurel.
In large doses mate is said to be
strongly emetic.
Coffee is an excellent antidote to opium
poison.
The tea plant is said to be a variety OF
the camellia
The coffee plant is a variety of the Gin
chona family.
Brazil grows about half the coffee crop
of the world.
In 1856 the worlds coffee crop amount
ed to 900 TONS
The glazing of tea is accomplished by
the use of plumbago.
The coffee plant was taken from Al
RIGA to Persia in 875
In 1915 the use of coffee was first men
tened in Venice.
Great Britain uses 100000 pounds of
cocoa every year.
Coffee can be grown successfully in all
tropical countries.
The active chemical principle of cocoa
is called theobromine.
The flake or rock cocoa is the cake
made from the ground seeds.
The name of coffee is derived from the
city of Kaffa in Arabia.
The oil of cocoa is extensively used in
the manufacture of cosmetics.
The coffee plant grows wild in Arabia,
Abyssinia and West Africa.
In the Amazon valley two crops of COT
fee may be gathered every year.
India has now become, next to China,
the largest ea-grOwing country.
Cocoa is made from the leaf of plant
closely resembling the holly.
The mate or Peruvian tea is made from
plant of the holly family.
Roasted coffee loses 20 per cent in
weight and gains so per cent in bulk.
The cultivation of coffee was introduce
ed into Java from Arabia in 1880.
Over 100000 pounds of mate are an
nually exported from Paraguay.
Cocoa was introduced into Europe
from Mexico by the Spaniards in 1920.
Four pounds of green leaves are re-
quired to make one of the dried tea.
The tea plant may be grown anywhere
in the Southern states of this country.
The coffee bean, in it's original state, is
almost as hard as the stone of a cherry.
Between 10000 and 10000 pounds of
sassafras oil are annually made in this
country.
In the United States 20 ounces of tea
are used every year to each inhabitant.
In preparing cocoa for use the seeds
are roasted like coffee, then ground or
pounded.
Tho TEA plant grows best on hill slopes,
where the soil is not too retentive of
moisture.
The Portuguese first brought tea from
China and the East in the 10th century
Cocoa, like milk, is believed to have
every element necessary to sustain the
human system.
In most parts of Asia where coffee is
used, the grounds" are drunk with the
infusion.
Tea has been found growing wild in
South China, Siam, Burmah and the re-
gion in India Immediately south of the
Himalayas.
In the year 1850 Russian ambassador
returning from China brought with him
a considerable quantity of tea as a curl
osity.
Coffee roasted to BROWNIES losses large
part of the aromatic oil that constitutes its
fragrance.
When first introduced from the East tea
was sold in England for f10 pound-over
$50 The best grades brought twice this
sum.
The worlds annual crop of tea is said to
be about 456,000,000 of pounds Of this
Great Britain uses 1874 100000 of pounds
per annum.
Before the introduction of tea and coffee
into Europe, a hot drink, much used by
women, was made from the leaves of the
sage.
In 1864 the East India company made
the queen of England a present of two
pounds of tea, then considered so rare as
to be fit only for royalty.
The tea plant succeeds we'll in Califor-
MIA and number Of years ago extensive
gardens were planted in that state by a
colony Of Japanese.
The coffee tree in wild state will grow
to height of 80 feet; when cultivated it
is pruned down to 5, for convenience in
gathering the crop.
The leaves of the mate are prepared for
use by being dried until they are almost
scorched then ground or pounded into a
coarse powder.
It is said that freshly roasted coffee
tightly tied in linen bags in liable to
spontaneous combustion.
Considered incidentally, tea stimulates
respiration, promotes digestion and the
assimilation of food.
Cocoa has several nutritious oils, andsin
this respect differs from and is superior
to either tea or coffee.
In Japan favorite way of using tea
to grind the leaves to powder and drink
them with the infusion.
The tea plant is said by Chinese writer's
to have been cultivated in that country
from at least 5000 B. G..
1t is said that in the best districts of
China the tea crop will average from 800
to 400 pounds per acre.
In 1850 the cultivation of tea began in
Brazil and considerable quantity was
exported from that country
In mate there is only one-half of 1 per
cent of caffeine, though it has 2088 per
cent of coffee-tannic acid.
Coffee is not drink for cold countries;
in the highest ATTITUDES or above so de-
grees tea is almost universally used.
Rauwolf was the first European writer
to mention the use of coffee as beverage
His allusion to it was written in 1852.
The first English writer alluding to the
use of coffee was Burton, who mentions
1t in his Anatomy of Melancholy"
The first coffee house in London was
opened in 1862 by Greek 1t is said
there had previously been one in Oxford
The South American Indians generally
use some fiavoring for cocoa, the favorite
for this purpose being the vanilla bean.
The Aztecs had the art of making choc-
olate into froth so thick that when cold
Il could be eaten with spoon as solid.
The younger the leaf the better the
quality of the tea; Flower tea" is made
from the buds with the down still upon
them
The leaves of cocoa are so exceedingly