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How Chocolate is Obtained.
Mexicans cultivated cocoa and pre
pared it in cakes like chocolate. It ap
pears that the use of cocoa was intro
duced after the conquest into other parts
of the continent. The cocoa prospers in
the damp, warm forests and among
the rank vegetation of South America,
M. Goudot found it in New Grenada
growing profusely. He saw trees there
twenty-four feet high, from whose bitter
bean was prepared a chocolate considered
as an excellent febrifuge. The Indians
only eat the pulp, and are ignorant of
the rich beverage which the grain can
iurnish. It was the Spaniards who first
brought cocoa into notice in Europe,
and then in the New World, where its
cultivation has been an important com
mercial factor. In tropical countries
cocoa plantations are started in virgin
soil; if started on land which has pre
viously grown corn, sugar canc or other
crops, the result is poor. This plant or
tree needs a rich soil, deep and
damp, and also heat and
shade, and it grows well on
slopes where streams can run. The plan
tations generally are in hot lands near
the sea, and near rivers and streams,
After ground is selected the first thing
done is to secure shade. Generally trees
radicated serve this purpose, but in
many places trees are put out which are
known to grow rapidly. Around Cara
cas, Yene/.uela, the buearo is used, while
in Mexico the ad-leaved plantain is
often selected. In the Guayaquil prov¬
ince, Ecuador, the cocoa bean is planted.
In Venezuela it is first planted in a
nursery, and the places where the bean
is planted are covered with plantain
leaves. The sowing in the latter case is
done just prior to the rainy season, and
if well watered (till the rain comes) the
shoots appear in about eight days. When
two years old, shoots are transplanted
from the nurseries. In the upper valley
of the Magdalena river the watered plants grow
under rush roofs, and are from
streams turned on to the roof. It is very
seldom the tree has flowers until it is
thirty months along, and some planters
destroy the first flowers and do not allow
buds to blossom until the fourth year,
In unfavorable localities six or seven
years pass before the flowers appear. It is
very small in any case. Generally four
months elapse before the perfect fruit
succeeds the Sowers. The fruit is long
in form, slightly curved, and sharp at
one extremity. It is about au inch in
length, and at its thickest half an inch
in diameter. The outside skin is fur¬
rowed lengthwise; in color it varies from
greenish white to violet; the meat is
white, but sometimes has a rose tint; the
pulp, sugary and acid, has an agreeable and
flavor; the seeds are in the fruit,
there are almost always twenty-live; the
almonds are white, oily, slightly bitter,
and in drying darken. On the planta
tions two regular crops are gathered sight
yearly. But it is not an unusual on
some plantations to gather the year
round and have fruit and flower on the
same stem. It is calculated that every
hundred kilograms of fresh almonds
yields forty-five to fifty kilograms of dry
cocoa ready for the market. The bean
contains albumen and also coloring and
oily matter. Cocoa, up to the sixteenth
century, was condemned. Bensoni, in
his “History of the New World,” sets it
down as diet for hogs. On the other
hand, Hernando Cortez, the conqueror,
said a cup of cocoa could sustain a
soldier for an entire day’s march .—Two
Republics , City of Mexico.
Provisions for an Ocean Steamer.
Few persons are aware of the exten¬
sive nature of the victualing on board
the great ocean steamers. Each vessel
is provisioned as follows for the passen
gers and crew: 3,500 pounds biscuit, butter,
3,000 hams, 1,600 supplied pounds for of the ex
elusive of those crew,
8,000 pounds of grapes, almonds, figs
and other dessert fruits; 1,500 pounds
of jams and jellies; tinned meats, 6,000
pounds; dried beans,6,000 pounds; pounds: rice,
3,000 pounds; onions, 5.000
potatoes, 40 tons, flour 300 barrels; and
eggs. 1,200 dozen. Fresh vegetables,
meat, and live bullocks, sheep.
geese, turkeys, ducks, fowls, fish,
and casual game are generally supplied esti
at each port, so it is difficult to
mate them. Probably two dozen bul
locks and sixty sheep would be a fair
average for the whole voyage, and the
rest mav be inferred in proportion. Dur
ihe'summer months, when traveling
° heavy twenty-five fowls are often
is dinner. London
used in soup r for a single —
Times. ___^__
There are 500 persons employed in the
United States signal service.
A Silver-Shod Horse.
A Pittsburg correspondent visitor of the
j Philadelphia Westinghouse News writes: “A in East to
the stables, the
End, sees among an array of handsome
blooded horses one of peculiar Casual notice beauty of is
color and carriage.
quickened into close inspection when it
is noticed that the horse never moves,
He is dead. Though lifeless, he is, per
haps, the only horse in America to day
which wears a full set of solid silver
shoes. Mrs. George End Westinghouse is
the leader of East fashionable life,
Her dresses are the costliest, her recep
tions the most brilliant, and her turnout
the finest in the city. Her husband is
said to have settled au income of $150,
000 a year in pin-money upon her. She
is a lady of artistic taste, and a year ago
she decided upon a team of cream-col
ored horses, with flowing, snowy manes,
Such horses are as rare Westinghouse, as they are
beautiful, but Mrs.
nothing daunted, set about to
procure them. Four agents were em
ployed, and for months the country was
scoured, and stables and stock farms
were ransacked to find the silver-tipped
horses. At last the team was turned
over to their delighted the mistress. of They
cost but $3,000, but expense get
ting them was enormous. Mrs. West
inghouse, early in the use of her new ac«
quisition, became concerned as to what
she would do if one of them should die.
The agents who secured the first pair
were sent out to find a third. They
were successful, and the three beauties
were soon on friendly terms. The
strangest part ef the story is, feared, perhaps, the
that what Mrs. Westinghouse original ‘
death of one of the pi air, oc
curred but two weeks after the third had
been acquired. So much had Mrs. West
inghouse become attached to the horse
that she ordered him sent to New York
to a well known taxidermist to be stuffed,
There he was treated to silver shoes, and
given as near as possible a look of recog
nition, so that when his mistress enters
the stable none appears more glad groomed, to see
her than he. The horse is
blanketed, and attended as carefully as
if alive. His bed is always made, and
his manger is always full of hay.
Cause For Rejoicing’.
Cincinnati. —The Times-Star says:
“A remarkable discovery made last win¬
ter, is attracting wide spread interest. As
it involves a most important question,—
that of public health, it is being dis¬
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men. It
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Food and Conscience.
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