Show biow coffee came to ite be used it is is somewhat sin singular ular to trace the in manner annor in in which abich acae arose the me of the common beverage coffee without which ell few persons in many ny half or wholly civilized country in in the world ft olid would s seem cem hardly able to exist at the time columbus discovered america it hud hd never been known or used I 1 it only grew in in arabia and upper ethiopia the discovery disco cry of its u use e as a beverage is ascribed to the superior of a monastery in in arabia who bo desirous of preventing the monks from sleep sleeping at their nocturnal services made 1 1 de there them drink the infusion sion of coffee upon the report of some shepherds 11 ho observed observe ed that their flocks were more lively after browsing on the fruit of that plant its reputation spread through the adjacent countries an and d in n about two hundred years 3 ears it reached paris pans A single plant brought brou rh there in i i 1714 became the ibe parent stock of all the french coffee plantations in in the west indies the extent of the consumption can now hardly be realized the united 1 i states alone annually consume it it a at t the cost of its landing of from fifteen to sixteen millions of dollars you nay may know the arabia or mocha the best coffee by its small bean of a dark yellow color the java ja a and east indian the next in in quality are larger and of a paler yellow the west indian R rio i 0 has a blush or greenish gray tint |