1892 The flowing bowl when and what to drink (1892, c1891)

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next one in the same city was the Cafe Procope, es- tablished by the Sicilian Procopio, in the year 1725; it was frequented by all the literary men of France that visited Paris, and soon became fashionable, but also the meeting-place of republicans and revolutionists. Vienna opened its first cafe in the year 1694; the privilege was granted to a Polish citizen for the ser- vices he had rendered when the capital was besieged by the Turks in the year 1683. Berlin received its first mocha-temple in the year 1721. King Frederick I. of Prussia, an obstinate enemy of coffee, made the coffee-trade a monopoly; nobody but the clergy and the nobility were permitted to roast their own coffee. The people at large had to pay, in the royal roasting-houses, from six to seven times more than they would have paid at the merchant's. In Leipsic the first coffee-house was opened to the public in the year 1694, in Stuttgart in the year 1712. The infamous Jew Suss, founded in Wuertemberg a coffee-monopoly by granting the privilege of sale only to such people as were able and willing to pay him for it liberally. The colonists that sailed out to find new islands and to found new settlements took the coffee-beans the decoction of which had become already a necessity with them. A mayor of Amsterdam, Wieser, is said to have brought the coffee-tree from Mocha to Batavia, where he established great plantations; this took place at the end of the seventeenth century. From Batavia he