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bags of the husks of peas, and cobs of Indian corn, wheat, 

 sea-biscuits, and other articles, harmless enough in them- 

 selves, and in their right places, where, indeed, they may 

 be useful ; but a coffee-mill is the wrong place for these 

 otherwise objectionable articles of consumption. It will not 

 be denied that the husks of peas or the cobs of maize are 

 appropriately placed in the trough from which our pigs 

 feed; they will even add to the delicacy and whiteness 

 of the pork those very useful animals are intended to yield 

 us, but they are essentially out of place in our coffee-cup. 

 These, and various other articles, go to make what in the 

 trade is termed " Boston," and this preparation the visitor, 

 who has been admitted to the arcana of the grinder, will find 

 mixed in a large bin ready for use. One who has been thus 

 favoured, after describing the mill used for grinding the 

 coffee, speaks of another machine, called the " mixer." The 

 " mixer" is a wooden cylinder revolving on a spindle at an 

 angle of 45, and having internal arrangements to mix the 

 coffee with such proportion of adulterating material as the 

 ingenuity or impudence of the grinder may suggest. Here, 

 like Macbeth's witches over their cauldron, presides the 

 genius of the place, who casts in the ingredients which con- 

 stitute the villanous compound, which, done up in tins, is 

 finally ornamented with labels such as this : 



FINEST PLANTATION COFFEE, 

 Eoasted and ground on the most approved principle by 



STEAM MACHINERY. 



This coffee is with confidence highly recommended to the public, as the 

 fine aroma, so much appreciated, is entirely preserved by its being 

 PACKED FRESH FROM THE MILL. 



"We need scarcely say that the amount of nourishment 

 contained in this abominable olio is infinitesimally small. 



The Scientific American of New York, of a recent date, 

 records the following fact : " The editor of the Baltimore 

 American lately visited the commissary department of one 



