Show IN PRAISE OF TEA the chinese who always date their legends with preposterous accuracy assure us that the philosophic emperor alien nung discovered tea in the year which we call 2737 n C ile he was bolling bolline water for his evening meal his fagots fagons were made of branches of the hie tea plant and some of their leaves fell into ills his pot their fragrance pleased and their odor delighted him and he made ills discovery known to the world in words which as lias has been suggested might have bare been tinted printed yesterday la in a bulletin of board of health tea Is better than wine for it not to intoxication neither does it cause a man to say foolish things and repent thereof in his sober moments it Is better than water for it does not carry disease 0 neither does it act like a poison as does docs water when the wells contain foul and rotten matter |