Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-07-08
History Of Tobacco.

ing ana smoking Tobacco; and the evidence G
the employment of this narcotic furnished b
specimens of pipe-making found among tn
Mongol tribes points to period long anterior t
that era. On his arrival at Cuba, Columbus be
held for the first time the strange phenomenon
OF a man drawing Tobacco smoke into his mout
through burning cigar. Hernandez de Toled
| soon after introduced the plan into Spain an,
| Portugal. John Moot. after whom the plan
has been named, sent the seeds to France abou
| the year 1860. Sir Francis Drake on returning
| to England with the Virginia colonists in 1886
introduced there the use Of the article: ane
about the year 1889, the Cardinal Santa Croc,
convened the weed y from France to Italy
From these points it spread rapidly over almost
the whole Of the inhabited portions of the globe
The plant is now cultivated and used, through
out the whole extent Of the United States
Canada, New Brunswick, Mexico, the Western
Coast, the Spanish Main, Cuba, St. Domingo
Trinidad, Turkey, Persia, India. China, Austria
LA, the Philippine Islands, Japan, Egypt, Algeria
the Canary Islands, and the Cape of Good
Hope.
Its use was first opposed, then tolerated, next
embraced, and finally eulogized. DR.. Paris re-
marks: alt has been successfully opposed and
commended by physicians; condemned and eu-
logised by priests and kings; and prescribed and
protected by governments"
King James the first of England, and his sue
3essor Charles, prohibited its use under severe
penalties. Queen Elizabeth published an edict
against its use In 1898, Shah Abbas inter
dicted it's use in Persia by penal statues In
1924, Urban VIII, communicated all snuff
takers who defled St. Peters Church by taking
a pinch within its walls. In 1853, severe
punishment was decreed against all who smoked
Tobacco in the cnnton of Apponzel. In Russia,
about the same time, the penalty of death was
proclaimed against the offence of Tobacco chew
ing, while those who smoked were condemned
to have their noses cut off In 1890, Pope In
nocent XII, renewed the bull of Pope Urban,
but in 1924, Benedict XIV, having become a
snuff taker himself, repealed the edict In
Constantinople, about the same time, 1890, every
Turk caught in the indecent act Of smoking was
conducted in ridicule through the streets, seated
on an ass, his face directed toward the animals
tail, and pipe transfxed through his nose.
In some countries men, women, and even
children are addicted to smoking. In Cam
peachy, we are told, it is common for children
two and three years of age to smoke cigars.
Kotzebue tells US that in the Sandwich Islands
children often smoke before they learn to walk:
and that adults frequently fall down senseless
from the excessive indulgence in this habit. In
India, all classes and both sexes smoke. In
Hindostan, boys of fourteen and fifteen use
Tobacco excessively. In the Burman Empire,
both males and females smoke necessarily even
nursing infants have the lighted pipe put in their
mouths occasionally by their smoking mothers.
In China young girls wear, rs an indispensable
to their daily dress, slken pocket
to carry pipe and Tobacco. In South America,
both sexes use Tobacco. In Lima, women are
daily seen putting cigors in the street: and in
Paraguay the fair sex" befoul their mouths
every day by chewing.
The Germans smoke large portion of their
time. The French and Spanish smoke to great
excess. The English consume immense quaint
ties of Tobacco and take the lead in shutting.
And, lastly, in the United States more Tobacco
8 raised and consumed in proportion to the
population than in any other country. Most of
he foreign population of this country are in
7eterate smokers; and large and increasing
proportion of the natives particularly great boys
ind small young men, are addicted to the gen
raj folly.
The Hours MosT FATAL TO LIFE.-We
lave ascertained the hour of death in $3.50
instances of all ages. and have arrived at
interesting conclusions. We may remark !
hat the population from which the data are
derived, is a mixed population in every res
oect, and that the deaths of the 1880 persons
lad occurred indiferentIy at any hour during
he twenty-four hours. 100 would have &C.
.urred at each hour. But this was by no
means the case. There are two hours in I
which the proportion was remarkably below
hIs-two minIma in fact-namely, from
Midnight to o'clock. when the deaths were
3 per cent. below the average, and from
oon to O'Clock, when they were 2031 per
ent. below. From 8 10 6 O'Clock, a. M, in
!usive, and from to o'clock, P. NJ, there
) gradual increase-in the former of 2315
er cent. above the average, in the latter of
u per cent. The maximum Of deaths is
rom to 8 o'clock, A. M. when it is 40 per
ent. above the average the next during
he hour before midnight, when it is 25 per
ent. in excess; third hour Of excess is
hat from 8 10 10 o'clock in the morning,
eng liz per cent. above. From 10 A. NJ,
, 3 P. NJ. the deaths are less numerous
eng 1917 below the average, the hour be-
re noon being the most fatal. From 3
clock, P. NJ, 10 7 O'Clock, P. NJ, the deaths
Sc to 515 per cent. above the average, and
len fall from that hour to II P. NJ averag- {
ig ~ per cent below the mean During ,
ie hours from to / 1 o'clock in the evening
,ere is minimum Of 81 per cent. below
,e average. Thus the least mortality is
urng the midday hours-namely from 10
} 8 O'Clock; the greatest during early
forming hours, from to o'clock. About
ae-third of the total deaths were children
nder five years Of age; and they show the :,
'huence Of the latter still more strikingly. ,
I al! hours, from 10 O'Clock in the morning !
ntil midnight, the deaths are at or below !
le mean; the hours from 10 TO II A. M, .
ON TO P. NJ, and from to 10 p. M, =.
aing minima. but the hour after midnight ].
eing the lowest maximum. A, all the =
ours from 2 to 10 A. NJ, the deaths are 6
Dove the mean, attaining their maximum i
from 5 to 6 A. NJ, when it is 4515 per cent. .
oove-Londo,s Quarterly Reuaew.
ANEcDoTE or CHARLES LAMB.-The follow 6
q is an original I" Lamb and was, we be- :.
We, picked up by the poet Fields. Charles 8
Is once walking in the vicinity Of one of the !,
ltering places, in company with several ladies,
g of whom, more remarkable for prudery than !,
cd taste, took occasion to call forth the poll Il
led satire of the wit after this fashion:
t'Dear me, Mr.. Lamb, that's very shock 0
g!'' c
!" Ww-hat, madame? ?" q
2 Why, there, down on the beach; those boys 8
thing
Charles looked. and saw some half dozen little r
chins gamboling in nudity and unconceaied \