The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-08-25

= new Volume has just appeared In Yon1aon
to Be added to the numhss1ess treaff.p. 6.ro,,
tea 70 the history Of totnceo ana ID snecdote.i
connected with II. Mr.. Fairholt he author q
the work, gOes EosEippangly through The story
of tobacco and the hreccenturics of polsession
which IL has held since cerfain Eufopeans flrxt
beheid > few american savages aenioyinx i
pipe" Not many months since. q saps;x a
Paris, not above haif dozen years OF are
entered one of those shops which deal in sweet
temptations TO the yodtiffnl palate and proceevf
ed to negotiate . purchase. The Injuries were
above his means Of attainment, and the little
lad, disappointed Of bonboas, bought pipe and
tobacco. and went on his way, smoking. Un-
consciously, he exhibited therein one of the
uses Of the plant. He found in it consolation
for his disappointment; his irritation was
calrned, and his sorrow was. yeilea by the
smoke of oblivion. Here is 3 Whit or two
from Mr.. Fairholts well-f pipe:
OF literary men, Goethe hated tobacco,
very extraordinary thing for n German to do.
Heinrich Heine had the sante dislike OF
French literatenrs Balzac, Victor Hugo aud
Dumas, did not smoke; but the smokers are
Alfred de Mussef, Eugene Sne, Merimee, Paul
de St. Victor, and Madame Dndevanf tetter
known by her soubriquet George Sand. who
often iadnlges in Il cigar between the intervals
Mexico delight in doing at all other intervals
Charles Lamb, 1.-The gentle Ella was once a
great smoker. In letter to Wordsworth, he
says: Tobacco has been my evening comfort
and morning curse for these FIVE years. have
had IT III my head to write this poem for these
two years (sEarewell to Tobacco;) but tobacco
stood in its own light, when it gave me head
aches that prevented my singing its praises
Lamb once, in the height OF his smoking days,
was putting the coarsest weed from long clay
pipe in company with Parr, who was careful
in obtaining finer sorts, and the Doctor, in as
tonishment asked him how he acquired this
"prodigious power p Lamb answered, shy
toiIing after it, as some men toll after vir-
tue"
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. Campbell, Moore and Byron de-
lighted in its temperate enjoyment, as does our
present Laureate Tennyson, who has echoed
its praises with Byron in immortal verse
Robert Hall, when at Cam bridge, acquired the
habit of smoking from being in PARIS COM
pany; and being asked why he had commenced,
replied, I'm qualifying myself for the society
of Doctor of Divinity, and this tholding up
the pipe,) is the test of my admission When
presented with Clarke's pamphlet on 1.-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
the dignitaries Of the Church, have smoked.
Lords Eldon and Stowell and Lord Brougham
in early life, INDUCED thus The late Duke of
Sussex and the Duke of Devonshire gave it
aristocratic sanction, and George Nv. royalty
patronized it.
Thus from the throne to the cottage the
pipe has been solace; it has aided soldier and
sailor in bearing many hard privation.-
Many would rather go without their ratons
than the pipe, and endure any hardship with
it. Here is a modern instance from the late
Crimean war: IA 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, un-
der the influence of chloroform. 1t bled pro-
fusely, and the surgeon, after binding it up,
went away, giving her strict injunctions not
to allow him to move, and ordered him some
medicine, which he would send presently -
She was called away to another patient for a
few minutes and went, leaving M. with strict
orders not to put his foot down. On her re-
turn to his bedside, tc her astonshment he
was gone, and after some searching she dscov-
cred him by the traces of blood on the stairs
and corridor, sitting down in the yard smok-
ing his pipe with the greatest sang JfOid. She
spoke to him seriously about disobeying or
ders and doing himself an injury, but he was
perfectly callous on the subject of his toe
She succeeded, however, in working on his
feelings at having disfigured the corridor with
blood, and he came bsck, saying, "Indeed
mann, could not help going to have a pipe
for that was the nastiest stuff ! ever got
drunk on in my life''-alluding to the chloro-
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