Des Arc citizen., 1860-06-16
Tobacco Its History = Illustrious
 Smokers. Ea

A new volume has just appeared in London, to be added to the numberless treatses devoted 10 the history ot tobacco, and to anecdotes connected with it. Mr. Faifholt, the author of the work, goes gossiping through the story Of tobacco and the three centuries of possession which It has held ever since certain Europeans first beheId few American savages :" enjoying pipe"
 Here is whlff or two from MT. Fair holt's we'll filled pipe:
 Of literary men, Golhe hated tobacco, very extraordinary thing for German to do. Heinrich Hene had the same dis like. Of French ltera,eurs, Balzac, Vic tor Hugo, and Dumas did not smoke but the smokers are Alfred de Musset, Eu- gene Sue, Merimee, Paul de St. Victor, and Madam Dudevant, better known by the soubriquet of George Sand, who often indulges in cigar between tue intervals of literary labor, as the ladies of Spain and Mexico delight in doing at all other intervals. Charles Lamb, "t the gentle Elia," was once a great smoker. In letter to Wordsworth he says: i" Tobacco has been my evening comfort and my morning nurse for the last five years. l have had in my head to write this poem for these two years Farewell Tobacco) ); but tobacco stood Tn ils own light. when It gave me headaches that prevented me singing its praises" Lamb once, in the height of hls smoking days, was pulling the coarsest weed from long clay pipe
 in company with Parr, who was careful in obtaining finer sorts, and tue doctor, In astonishment, asked him how he acquired this prodigious power. Lamb answered, '' By loilng after it, as some men toll after virlue.'
 Of other literary smokers in England we may note Sir Walter Scott, who at one time carried the habit very far, So did Bloomfield, Campbell, Moore and Byron, delight in lis temperate enjoyment, as does our present aurente, Tennyson, who has echoed Us praise, with Byron, m im- mortal verse. Robert Hall, when at Cambridge. acquired the habit of smoking, from being in Paris company; and being asked why he had commenced, "l am qualifying myself for the society of a Doctor of Divinity" was tke reply, and thls (holding up the pipe) is the test ot my admission" When presented with Clarks pamphlet on the "use and abuse of smoking" he said, II can't retute his arguments, but can't give up smoking.
 The {. learned in the law as well as the dipnltaries in the church, have smoked. Lords Eldon and Stowell, and Lord Brougham, in early life, lnduged thus The late Duke of Sussex and the Duke of Devonshire gave Il aristocraic sane ton, and George ". royalty palronlzed I it.
 Thus from the throne to the cottage the pipe has been a soace-it has aided sol dier and sailor in bearing many hare
 privation. Many would rather go with
 out their rations than without their pipe
 and endure any hardship with 1t. Here
 is modern instance from the late Crl mean wal: A lady told me story ot |
 man, M, in her division, which show
 how much some of them will venture for smoke. He had just had one of his toe
 taken off, under she influence ol chloro form-i, bled profusely, and the surgeon after binding il up, went away. givinl strict injunclions not to allow him to move , and ordered him some medicine, whiehh would send presently. Sire was caile away to another patient for few minutes leaving M-- with strict orders not