Coffee-potful

C. C. Brown addressed the board, saying that the sprinkling wagon goes once a day, in the morning, in the vicinity of Sixth and G streets, and puts about a coffee-potful of water on the street.

So I told the proprietor that two people couldn’t make a toilet with one small coffee-potful of hot water.

Coffee Syrup. Take ½lb. best coffee (ground), put into a saucepan with 3 pints of water, boil down to 1 pint, cool the liquor, put into another pan and boil again. As it boils add enough white sugar to make it into a syrup. Take it from the fire, and when cold put into bottles and seal. When travelling it is very convenient, as 2 teaspoonfuls make a coffee-potful.

Perhaps the wine-drinking habit of the French, together with poor quality of water, due to the unsanitary condition of wells and springs in many parts of France, or to other causes, may have something to do with the French minister’s counterblast against the beverage that God made. Habit is a curious thing. Tastes differ. We once knew a retired physician who told the writer that he had not touched a drop of water for thirty-six years! He drank nothing but coffee-potsful of it, hot n^([sic]) winter and iced in summer, and, strange to say, he seemed to thrive on it.