The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-29

Coffee. the drink more highly regard
ed to-day by the entire civilized world
than any other, is the berry from sew
eral species of the genus Coffea, Of
which c. Arabica is the chief. The first
use of this berry was in Abysinnia,
where il was known A. d. S75. Thence
II was brought to Arabia in the begin
ming of the 18th century. There both
it's use and the cultivation of the plant
spread with great rapidity, and for
two centuries that country furnished
the supply Of the world. In the middle
of the 10th century coffee houses were
established in Constantinople. for the
purpose of affording the common peo-
pie greater facilities for obtaining
the drink. In 1862 II made it's first ap-
pearance in Great Britain, through the
opening of n coffee house in London by
a Greek. Pasqua Rossie, who thus i'm
mortalized more simply than has ever
any other man. But its fame had
reached England before that, for Ba-
con wrote, They have in Turkey
drink called coffee. This
drink comforteth the brain and heart
and helpeth digestion"
Tea, which more than any other COM
petitor might dispute with coffee the
claim to universally as a drink, is a
native Of China, where IL has been cul-
tivated for at least a thousand years.
The commercial article is the prepared
leaf of the shrub Thea Chinensis; and,
while there are many colors. varieties
and flavors known TO the market, all
are the product of the same plant. the
varieties depending on the treatment
after the leaves are gathered. The cui-
tivation of tea has been extended into
Japan and throughout the tropics to
Java, Australia, Natal and Brazil.
According to Chinese tradition. the
Emperor Chinnung, 2737 years b. G.
knowledge of IL was carried to Japan,
and Ii was there cultivated in the 18th
century, but we do not find IL in use in
England until some 400 years later.
Pepys mentions having drunk IL for
the first time in 1860. showing that IL
was then a nove>ty. But its use must
have spread rapidly for in 1878 it APP
pears to have bean in general use
ia mes Knapp Ree4e. in February Lip.
pincott's.
Yankee Cheers for srave British ship.
The harbor wa< death. the high seas
salvation. and captain Kane deter
mined upon a/desperate effort to get
out. The CaEiope matched her en-
gines against'the awful tornado. For a
time she stood stationary, the crawieCl
or rather sidled to the gap in the out
was pitching at anchor with fires
drowned and wheel and rudder gone
AS the Englishman at last came TO the
wind outside a rousing cheer went up
from the American flagship. returned
with a will by the British tars. When
Captain Kane FASTENED to acknowledge
the parting cheer sent after him as he
put out to sea, our admiral replied
MY Dear Captain-Your kind note re-
ceived. You went out splendidly and
we all felt from our hearts for you.
and our cheers came with sincerity and
admiration for the able manner I'm
which you handled your ship. We could
not have been gladder IL II had been
one Of our ships. for in a time like
that l can truly say. with old Admiral
Josiah Tatnall. that blood Is thicker
than water From The Neo- Eepub-
ucan Ascendancy. by President T. Ben
jamin Andrews. in the February Serb
mes.
Better late than never" The golden
opportunity Is stu open 10 him who
would enrich himself by jud.cious adj
vertising. None other viii pay.
Thomas Collier Plat reaffirms the 10y
atty Of New York republicans 10 Gov
ernor Morton's candidacy