Show IN PRAISE OF TEA the chinese who always date their legends with preposterous accuracy assure us that the philosophic emperor shen nung discovered tea in the year which we call 2737 B Cs lie ile was boiling water for his evening meal his fagots fagons were made of branches of the tea plant and some of their leaves tell fell into his pot their fragrance pleased and their odor delighted him and lie he made his discovery known to the world in words which as has been suggested might have been printed yesterday in a bulletin of board of health tea Is better than wine for I 1 it not to intoxication neither does it cause a man to say foolish things and repent thereof in tits ills sober moments it Is better than water for it does not carry disease neither does it act like a polson poison as does water when the wells contain foul and rotten matter |