Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1880 — Coffee. [ARTICLE]

Coffee.

We Americans drink a good deal of coffee. Some of it is atrociously bad coffee, and a great deal of it is not coffee at all. A certain noted man, who was very fond of a cup of genuine coffee, is said to have stopped at a country inn and said to the proprietor, “Have you any chicory?” “Yes, sir.” “Bring it to me. ” A can was brought to him. ‘‘ Is this all you have in the house?” “I have one more can only.” “Well, bring that.” It was brought. “Now,” said the noted man, placing the cans of chicory in his pocket, “go and make me a cup of coffee.” If the American people could place in its pocket all base imitations of the fragrant berry, a cup of good coffee would not be a rarity. A good deal of our coffee comes from Brazil. Last year we imported from that country about 422,000,000 pounds of coffee. The annual consumption of Mocha, Java and Rio is valued at over 8100,000,000. Put that in your cup and stir it. The best Mocha comes from the province of Remen, in Arabia. All others, as paragraphers would say, are hollow Mochanes. Java coffee comes from Java, Sumatra and Borneo. The roasting of coffee is a business by itself, and the modern coffee-roaster browns a ton and a half of coffee in forty-five minutes. Men who work at the coffee-roasting trade never drink coffee. They have enough of the aroma at their regular business. — Detroit Free Press.