Show IN PRAISE OF TEA the chinese who always date their legends with preposterous ac curacy assure assur eus us that the philosophic emperor shen nung discovered tea in the beir which we call 2737 B C lie ile was nas boiling water for his eve ning meal his fagots were made of I 1 ranches of the tea plant and some of their leaves leanes fell into his pot their fragrance pleased and their odor del gated him and he made his discovery known to the world orld in words which as has been suggested might have been I 1 noted yes yesterday berday in a bulletin of board of health tea is better than wine for it not to intoxication neither does it cause a min to say foolish things and repent thereof in his sober moments it Is better than water for it does not carry disease neither does it act I 1 le ke a poison as does water when the wells contain foul and rotten matter |