Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1860-02-20
About MYLast Havana.

To THE LOCAL EDITOR OF THE DAILY. Pa
TRIoT = You want to know where | am-do
you, hatcher of puns? Don't you know Eve
been sick, Haven't you heard of my sick
ness? Sac Transit:
Away down in the corner of Montgomery
county, there grew broad leafed plant,
whose sirname was LefotO Backo. Botanists
of that section 80 years agO-for it grew
then-regarded it narcotic in its properties;
and it was torn from the parent stem, cured,
packed and hogshead-ed, and sent 10 Merry
Land, where it was stripped and cut aud
rolled into a cigar, and boxed with 100 like
it, and shelved till the Merry-Land flies speck-
I'd it, aud the Baltimore dust corrupted 1t,
and until a Nashville merchant purchased it.
1t came-I saw tit conquered me. bought
it for pure Havana, bit one end of il, and Int
the other, and launched with the whole affair
magnifccntly into the street. 1t was as hard
to draw as three aces in steamboat cabin
when mans best "Ante's" up yet it looked
as mild as sundown. on the outside. Licked
it all over to stop up air holes, and with
super-human eff0rt-sHeked ii! 1t was slip
pery-it slipped and vanished. Good Heav
ems | swallowed it! Modelled like Win
ans Ferry Boat. and coming, as it did, from
Baltimore, you know it was bound to "fall
through At one gulp, on the atmospheric
principle, it was launched, not into eternity,
but the stomach of the undersigned. l lean
ed against several two story bricks for snp-
port. as | felt myself growing faint. Sudden
ly, oh, Heavens thin. blue vapor curled
about my eyes and made me dizzy-ihe
smoke was issuing from my nasal protuber-
ance! Tj,lnerre de cell! The fire at the end
Of the cigar had not been extinguished in the
slide among my bronchitals-I was literally
CONSUMING the insidel Ny first thought
was to '.holler fyer,' but could not articu-
late from the dryness Of palate and tongue.
| thought OF every remedy for universal ac-
cid .nts advertised in the morning papers-of
Btyau's tasteless hermitage and then
g'ew
FretrgI. p,IId, eak and pale,
Sass rred in a Beer Saloon, and
Took glass OF ale.
Il afforded no relief, and again rushed into
the street, and supported myself against
corner post, and read Theatre Poster, that
might die glowingly. read "Beaeft Of
Mlss SaIlie 81. Cur Doom Of DepiHe.r Even
in my great agony of body and mind, l could
not help thinking at that 'stage of the game"
it was q devil of a doom for Sally. Here
the smoke ISSUED from my mouth, ears and
nostrils. The liquid had reached the fire, and
the two elements were battling for tue mas
terry. The scene here is supposed, by many.
TO have been terrific but il wasn't. im-
mediately rushed TO my room and dispatched
u messenger for some Distinguished adyertis-
ing physician "who could not possibly re-
main in the city but a few days longer" Tue
man OF medicine came, and hacked me right
in two, about mid-way-took out the charred
remains OF the yillainous weed and glued
me together again with Burnett's Cocaine,
as good as ever, if not better. I'm quite well
now, thank you. But never ask me to take
an Havana in Nashville. Depend upon il,
my answer to that invitation will invariably
be in future
Mara 'Vaanah" for
JoHS Harry.