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acres adulterated American Arabia average bags bean berries beverage boiling Brazil café caffeine Cantenac Central America cents per pound Ceylon chicory coast coffee trade coffee-houses coffee-plant coffee-producing color consumed consumption Costa Rica crop cultivation cup of coffee cwts dealers December districts Dutch East empire of Brazil estimated Europe export fair to prime feet flavor France French Gold grades grocers ground coffee grown Guatemala hundred imports increased India Indies island Jamaica January Java coffee kilos labor Laguayra leaf disease Liberian coffee Liberica Maracaibo ment miles Mocha month native Netherlands ordinary Padang parchment Pauillac piculs Piculs 136 lbs plantations planters plants port pounds sterling production pulp quantity Rio de Janeiro roasted coffee seeds soil sold steamer Sumatra supply thousand tion tons Total trees U. S. lbs United usually variety Venezuela wine York
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Page x - That the value of foreign coin as expressed in the money of account of the United States 'shall be that of the pure metal of such coin of standard value...
Page 349 - From the nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue ; Far along the world-wide whisper of the south-wind rushing warm, With the standards of the peoples plunging thro...
Page 53 - This Greek was the servant of an English merchant named Edwards, who brought some C. with him from Smyrna, and whose house, when the fact became known, was so thronged with friends and visitors to taste the new beverage, that to relieve himself from annoyance, Edwards established his servant in a coffee-house.
Page 180 - No sooner have our patients taken a few tablespoonf uls of it than their features become relaxed and they come to their senses. The next day the improvement is such that we are tempted to look upon coffee as a specific against typhoid fever. Under its influence the stupor is dispelled and the patient rouses from the state of somnolency in which he has been since the invasion of the disease. Soon all the functions take their natural course, and he enters upon convalescence.
Page 251 - ... assistance from the patent, or to make it, or repeat the process claimed, it is insufficient to invalidate the patent. Mr. Justice STRONG delivered the opinion of the court : A careful examination of the evidence in this case has convinced us that the invention claimed and patented to the plaintiff was anticipated and described in the English provisional specification of John Henry Johnson, left in the Office of the Commissioner of Patents on the 20th of January, AD 1854. That specification was...
Page 221 - ... divers false, malicious and scandalous reports are devised and spread abroad, to the defamation of his Majesty's government and to the disturbance of the peace and quiet of the realm...
Page 170 - It exhilarates, arouses, and keeps awake ; it allays hunger to a certain extent, gives to the weary increased strength and vigour, and imparts a feeling of comfort and repose. Its physiological effects upon the system, so far as they have been investigated, appear to be, that, while it makes the brain more active, it soothes the body generally, makes the change and waste of matter slower, and the demand for food in consequence less.* All these effects it owes to the conjoined action of three ingredients,...
Page 251 - It must bo admitted that, unless the earlier printed and published description does exhibit the later patented invention in such a full and intelligible manner as to enable persons skilled in the art to which the invention is related to comprehend it without assistance from the patent, or to make it, or repeat the process claimed, it is insufficient to invalidate the patent.
Page 49 - The beverage when ready ought to be of a brownblack color; untransparcnt it always is, somewhat like chocolate thinned with water; and this want of clearness in coffee so prepared does not come from the fine grounds, but from a peculiar fat resembling butter, about twelve per cent of which the berries contain, and which, if over-roasted, is partly destroyed.
Page 50 - A coffee, however, which has not the flavor of the berry is no coffee, but an artificial beverage, for which many other things may be substituted at pleasure. Hence it comes that if to the decoction made from roasted chicory, carrots, or beetroot, the slightest quantity of coffee be added, few persons detect the difference. This accounts for the great diffusion of each such substitute. A dark mixture, with an empyreurnatical taste, most people fancy to be coffee. For tea there are no substitutes,...