Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1857-07-03
Tnhnccn..A Word for IL.

In Justice, and as an old and sincere FRIEND we
desire TO say word two in favor of tobacco. Lat
tery people have taken to abusing the divine Leaf
with an earnestness which, combined with the high
prices of cigars, is alarming. Tobacco is one of the
greatest Injuries of life Many eminent men have
been and are now powerful consumers, and II has a
number of virtues to offset its ina nary evils The
learned DR.. Isaac Barrow said it " heI ped his think
ing" His illusirious pupil, Newton, as scarcely
less addicted TO the Indian weed, and everybody has
heard of his hapess courtshp, when, in moment of
forgeifulEess, he popped the lady's finger into his
burning pipe instead of popping the question:, and
chagrined that be could be persuaded 10
press the matter further DR.. Parr allowed his
pipe when he dned with "the first gentleman in
Europe George the Fourth; and when refused the
sa indulgence by lady at whose house he was
stopping, he told her "she was the greatest tobacco
stopper he had ever met with The celebrated DR..
forts of tie pa'or of Emonue College, of which he
master, and "a yard ct clay - there were few
ueerschaums in those days--to bishopric, which
dignity be twice refused when offered to him by MIR.
Pitt Another learned lover of tobacco, and also Of
w.t. mrth, puns and pleasantly was the famous DR..
Aldrich dean Of Christ Church, Oxford, the never-lo
be forgotten composer Of the go old catch
"H ark! the merry Christ church bels,'
and OF another to be sung by tO7r men smoking Their
pipes, which would imagine to be not more diff
cut 10 sing than diverting to hear. His pipe was
his breakfast, dinner and supper, and student of
Christ Church at ten O'Clock one night, finding it
difficult 10 persuade freshman OF the fact, LAID
wager that he dean al that instant smoking
Away he hurried to the deanery to decide the con
troversy, and, gaining admission, az ologized for
his intrusion by relating the occasion of it. Well"
replied the dean, in perfect good huron, with his
pipe in his hand, you you have lost our wager,
for am not smoking but filling my pipe ~ Punch
says il is not the of tobacco which is disgusting
but the abuse of it, but what may be considered
abuse it would be difficult to explain to one convin-
ctd of the necessity Of fourteen large pipes full per
diem for comfortable existence. 1t may be admitted
since the London Lancet earnestly insists upon it,
that before breakfast cigars pipe Ike cocktails are
temporarily pleasant but perhaps injurious. The
stomach should be we'll and substantially garnished
with breakfast before The days tobacco is common
ced upon then it is less hurlful and more delicious
than at any other hour during the whole twenty four.
Expectation and delight are by no means syn ny
nous when referring to the joys of the pipe. A good
smoker is dry the furnace containing his gift Of
ferng, and neatness in the of tobacco is The first
evidence of genuine connoisseurship in its divine
qualities. Be it distinctly understood however, that
snufhng and chewing are, in The mind OF the writer
by no means included in the category of pleasures
of tobacco. Like incense it is agreeable only when
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