Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1890 — Bogus Coffee. [ARTICLE]

Bogus Coffee.

Look out for a new kind of coffee that Is not coffee. Some clever Frenchmen at the Island of Reunion have discovered that the fruit of the wild orange that grows there has the aroma of the coffee berry. As it costs less to raise the wild orange than regular coffee, naturally the planters are substituting the former for the latter, and Lie government even has ordered that a great part of the highlands on the islands be reserved for the cultivation of the new bogus coffee. One bright gleam on the coffee horizon is in the fact that the new berry will be so cheap that it will, if its culture succeeds, drive out chicory, and as an adulterant it is said to be much less vile than that staple coffee cheapener.