The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-08-13
TOBACCO-ITS HISTORY.

A new volume has just appeared in London to be
added to the numberless treatises devoted to the
history of tobacco and to anecdotes connected with
it. Mr.. Farholt, the author of the work goes Cos
slipping through the story of tobacco and the three
centuries OF possession which it has held since GER
tain Europeans first beheld few American savages
"enjoying a pipe" Here is a Whit or two from
Mr.. Fairholts well-filled pipe:
"Ot literary men, Goethe hated tobacco, a very
extraordinary thing for a German to do. Heinrich
Heine had the same dislike. OfFrench literateurs,
Balzac, Victor Hugo and Dumas did not smoke;
but the smokers are Alfred de Musset, Eugene Sue
Merimee, Paul de St. Victor, and Madame Dude
want better known by her sobriquet George Sand,
who often INDUCES in cigar between the intervals
of literary labor, the ladies Of Spain and Mexico
delight in doing at all other intervals. Charles
Lamb, 'the gentle Ella a great smoker.
In a letter to Wordsworth he says: Tobacco has
been my evening comfort and my morning curse
for these five years. l have had in my head to
write this poem for these two years farewell TO
Tobacco); but tobacco stood in its own light, when
1T gave me headaches that prevented my singing its
praises Lamb once, in the height of his smoking
days, was putting coarsest weed from a long clay
pipe in company with Parr, who careful in OBJ
tanning finer sorts, and the Doctor, in astonish-
ment, asked him how he acquired this 'prodigious
power!' Lamb answered, by toiling after it. as
some toll after virtue
"Of other literary smokers in England we may
note Sir Walter Scott who at one time carried the
habit very far So did the Poet Bloomfield. Camp
bell, Moore and Byron, delighted in'its temperate
enjoyment, does present laureate Tennvson
who has echoed its praise with Byron in immortal
verse Robert Hall, when at Cambridge, acquired
the habit Of smoking from being in Parr's company;
and being asked why he had commenced, Il am
qualifying myself for the society of a Doctor of
Divinity, and this holding up the pipe is the test
of my admission When presented with Clarks
pamphlet on The Use and Abuse of Smoking he
said Il can't refute his arguments, and can't give
up smoking The learned in the law as well as
the dignitares of the Church have smoked. Lords
Eldon and Stowell, and Lord Brougham in early
ipJul tbrS Tha lata n,,l-a ,F
the Duke of Devonshire gave it aristocratic sane
tion, and George ". royalty patronised it.
"Thus, from the throne to the cottage the pipe
has been solace it has aided soldier and sailor in
bearing many hard priyatiOn Many would rather
go without their ratious than their pipe, and
dure any hardship W ith it. Here is modern in
stance from the late Crimean war A lady told me
a story of a man, Nj, in her division, which
shows how much some of them will venture for
smoke. He had just had one of his toes taken of,
under the influence of choroform. 1t bled pro-
fusely; and the surgeon, after binding it up, went
away, giving his strict njunctions not to allow him
to move, and ordered him some medicine which he
would send presently. She called away to
another patient for few minutes, and went leaving
M with strict orders not to put his foot down.
On her return to his bedside, to her astonshment
he gone and after some searching she dis
covered him, by the traces of blood the stairs and
corridor sitting down in the yard smoking his pipe
with the greatest sang froid. She spoke to him Sc
riousy about disobeying orders and doing himself
an injury but he was perfectly callous the sub
ject of,his toe. She succeeded, however, in work
ing on his feeling at having disfgured the corridor
with blood, and he came back saying, Indeed,
ma'am, could not help going to have pipe, for
that was the nastiest stuff ever got drunk on in
my iife'-alludng to the chlOrotorm."
PATENT PAPER COLLARS. There is quite demand
springing up in the large cities for paper collars,
comparatively new invention, said to cost less than
the usual rate charged for washing. 1t appears
that about four years ago inventive genius sup
posed to be single man, took out patent for shirt
collars made of paper and muslin, for the use of
travellers and old bachelors factory was started
in New York, but only continued a short time, when
a gentleman of Philadelphia, some two years since
bought the exclusive right, and commenced the
manufacture of the collars in large building near
Paramount and at the present time, tits said, about
fifty hands are employed in the work, using up, by
means of steam power, three tons Of paper per
month, and producing so 900 collars comprising the
stand-ups, chokers, Byrons, D'Orsays, &C., weekly
These collars are composed of the best white
paper, resembling somewhat the paper used for
book printing, and thin, cheap muslin Machinery
is employed to cut the collar, muslin, button holes
etc, and then the materials are put together with
sizing by hand Alter this they are passed through
calendar machine, which gives the paper
smooth, glossy appearance, and also brings to the
surface the impression of the threads of the muslin,
thus rendering it very difficult to distinguish the
sham collar from the real The edges are also
adorned with an imitation of line stitching, which
remains visible until the collar willis by occasion OF
the heat or becomes dirty as the rag from wnlcn
1t sprung. The collar, once found so convenient
.or old bachelors, is coming into very general
use, as ten of them be purchased ior twenty
five cents, and when dirty can be thrown INTO a
corner and res0ld for waste paper, at from hVe TO
seven cents per pound. This is the only disposition
that can be made of them at present. though we
have no doubt the inventive talent OF this country,
ahoundino as it does in brilliant ideas, will soon
devise ways and means by which they may be
washed and made fit for use again.
DALTIM MORE ACADEMY OF THE
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