Cooler

That which cools; anything which abates or allays heat or excitement. "Acid things were used only as coolers ." - Arbuthnot. -A ve el or utensil used for cooling liquors. One of the best wine-coolers is the Alcarraza , a species of coarse pottery, manufactured in Spain. The cooling is effected by means of its extreme porosity, the wine pa ing through the pores, when a copious evaporation takes place from the small portion of water which penetrates to the outside. It is made of clay, consisting of 60 parts of calcareous earth, mixed with alumina, and a little peroxide of iron, and 36 of silicious earth, mixed with a little alumina; to which a quantity of salt is added in the mixing. The ve els are only half, or at least not wholly, baked. - The C. used by brewers and distillers generally consist of very shallow ve els, exposing great surface, and placed in the high and airy parts of the brewery; the cooling is sometimes a isted by fans, which agitate the air over their surfaces. Worts are also occasionally cooled by causing them to traverse metal pipes, which are surrounded by a counter-current of cold water. Cool'eysville, in Minnesota , a post-office of Steele co. Cool'-headed, a . Having a temper not easily excited; free from pa ion; calm; equable. Coolie, (sometimes wrongly written COOLY and COULIE,) n. [Hind. kûli.] The name of an aboriginal Hindoo upcountry tribe, applied by Europe ans in India to porters or laborers, from the fact of many of that tribe having been employed at many of the seaports in that country, in the bearing of burdens, and loading, discharging, and manning of ships, . The term is now generally used to denote those people who are introduced into foreign countries from India, China, ., for agricultural and other manual labor, more especially into the Mauritius, and into the West Indies, and other British colonies on the American continent. The cause that originated the demand for this cla of laborers was negro emancipation. It has been found in all the above-named countries, that where uncultivated land could be had for squatting on, the negro could not be induced to work, even for fair wages. Hence the nece ity which arose for supplying the labor-market with importations of foreign labor. The traffic in coolies was first publicly recognized in 1844, when the colony of British Guiana made provision for the encouragement of Chinese emigration. The Peruvian planters quickly followed, and Cuba shortly afterward engaged in the traffic, which was as yet confined to Chinese laborers. At a later date Indian coolies were brought to the West Indies, and large numbers of them were employed in the Straits settlements, Mauritius and elsewhere. In Penang there are said to be 25,000 Indian coolies out of a total population of 150,000. With reference to the treatment of the coolie in foreign colonies, it is difficult to obtain exact information. In the guano pits of the Chinch a Islands they appear to have been treated with revolting cruelty by their Peruvian taskmasters, and elsewhere the coolie is the victim of abuses and oppre ion that are not easily remedied, though laws for their protection have been enacted. Cool'ing, p. a. Tending to cool the system and allay bodily heat; as, a cooling drink.