The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-07-03
History OF 1CiGhiBg.

Tse Ggst mode OG using tobacco n Euglsnd
was e-noklng, snd a,R WALTER RALEIGH, as
is veli sno~ns YES she 1rac man that intro
duoed the fashion. RALEIGH had his arms
emhlszoned 1t bic dwelling at Is!!nstoD, a.
terW2Tls AZ inn, Arown 81 tho Pi.d Bl.i,
with s tobacco piaut upon the top. 1t was
,ae Grs. aouse in England IN vhich tobacco
was smoked. The ceiebz2ted tobacco box Of
SIR WALTER, used in entertaining his guests.
was q cylindrical foru, about seven inches
il diameter and twe!yo iaohes high tbe out
side wss of silied leather, and within was =
reesive- oF Gla1a or Elotai, wAicn would boll
about pound ~ tobacco Il aind Of collar
connected the receiver with tho case, and on
every side the box vas p,araod with hoes Eur
the pipes,
Tho homo. of being ane erst female emosee
in England, is due 70 Queen ElgzAgErg. Who
copied the habit from RALEIGH, sDi was il
her tine initiated hy ladies oc Le- co4rt.
There was another claimant Eor this honor in
the person Of ono Molly C--rrsss, s law
woman taZGoa3 F,- ber follias and h8r ctimes,
but upon eI8GinatSor it uas found MAT tho
distinction belonged 10 tho yirg.n QczE$.
MOLLY never laid aside hcr pipe ill her death
in 1862. sb9 was an original Geaias. as 77as
sbcen by direction in ner viii tAa. her ro-
phe7s, to whom eGs e.: the b1ik CO her pro
perly, " 3hould no5 lay il oGt foo4isaiy, out
eel drunk With it while It lasted
RALelGR loved his pipe til the day Of his
death. lie suloScd on the morning OF his ox-
ec.sion, which, sayB Is contemporary Tii,er,
"somo formal pe-sons vere scandG.izcd a.. :.
bat think" hs e.ods, "'tR&s UelL and prop
erly dons 80 ae,tso his spirits On beng
asked il i: p.cased him, "aye,"' said RAlFlcs,
'''tip indeed COED Il man might tarzy by IT."
Smoking scn spread through ell ranks and
became aai7e7sal. The spectators st the the
at-eF, ic 2HAKsPEARE's time, were permit
ted 10 sit 01 tho Stage GuAng the performance
and puf away vigorously al their pipes and
tobacco. Smoking Wzs also permitted "A ali
other peEts Of the house. The practice reached
It's climax ahou: l8Io. A common node Of
smoking was 70 swallow the smoke Partially,
AID afterwards tlor il onl Though the nos
trils. This vas called tobacco drinking. r.
1914 there Has said to he upwards q sav*n
thousand tobacco selling houses in LoDdon.---
The V;rginis tobacco was usually imported N
tn. leaf, tied up il small ioose bundles; the
Spanish tobacco mostly in halls a1oas tAo aise
of g mans head, coaraely spun into kind
Of thiok uwine. The medical profession Of that
period as&viDed 10 tobao0o extraordinary medi-
oinal elects. The "humors" OF he body
could oISy be "pnr@ed" By tobacco.
II was durisg this universal prevalence Of
the practice that the royal pendant, JAMES l.,
wrote has "CopntoTblast to Tobacco" which,
horeves does not seem 10 have produced
much es.ct In the frontispiece vas engraved
"the tobacco smokers coet ef arns, oonsist-
ing oE blaokamoors head, oross pipes,
cross Ie. bones, death heads, &c, cG-
rio,asls and scientifically dispU.ed, ~ q warn
ing b toIacconis;s" This s3tagr deno"nces
snokia So Il barDarols and begstiy imitation
CT the godless snd sl4yish Indian; contests
tho ilaa ot its benefits ss 4 medicine; tut, on
the contrary, contends thst il i. poison, and
u1aintsins that Il will render Britons efeni-
nete, so that the land will produce no moro
great warriors. He predicts thas British aol-
diers, upon march, will lag IN tae rear, en-
joyipg their pipes, and then he cut OF BY tho
the eaesay. 1t is clear that the King had rot
foreseen Waterloo, nor imagined the existence
of Frenaa louavss, 10 whom the pipe is almost
as iuGis, ensable as the bay onet. Ills MaJei-
ty also dnates upon the extravaganza OF TINS
precau,iAn, "soue Of the gentry bestowing
$500, so,aa c490 f. year upon this precious
stinx." lie ayers that smoking "masee
kitchen oftentimes in the in~&rd parts Of
man, soilng and injecting them with an uno-
.aous slsa oily kind Of s'ot as hatn been
found il sotne great tooacee esai.efs thas alter
their dsaug wero opened" aud winds up by
pronouncinx j. "a custom loathsomo to the
eye--hatefol TO the nosc--hsrmful to the braia
dangerous 70 tho lungs-aId in the black,
stinking funAes thereof, nearest resembling the
horrii S.ysisn fumes of the p!t that is bottom
less"
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D. Strouse, Superintendent OF the Military
has sent large force OF men 10
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