New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-08-13


affection and reverence from all, but Phoebe
.s ME own especial darling. 1t is her gentle
ministry which sheds light and beauty on
the evening of his days. He is only wait
ing now. serenely waiting for the happiness
which shall soon be his. And 'Grace
mercy, and peace. the love OF God, and the
communion of His Holy Spirit" do abide
with him now, and shall foIever-Graphic
Smoke.
An Irishman who had termagant wife
Quoted eu outbreak Of i'll humOr by pre-
seEting the lady with short pipe, of which
the cost was onehslf penny; and as he did
60 he remarked, with Quaker-like sim.
plicity, that peace was good thing at any
price. There is much peace in tobacco. A
legend even relates thst it was introduced
to Europe by . man whose professional
business was peace seeking. 1t was or was
not-for doctors difer-a certain N. de
Moot, French ambassador ct the court OF
Portugal, who brought tobacco under the
notice of Catherine de Medicis in the year
1860, or thereabouts; whereas it was prob
ably known in London in 1855 In France
tobacco was therefore called nicotiane, or
1.-The Queens weed;" in England it
SAYS the ancient tradition, Francis Drake
carried away the first samples from Tobs-
60 1t was the wild man who taught his
civilized brother the calm delights of
smoke TIE best tobacco in the world for
cigars is perhaps that found in Cuba, and
the best tobacco in Cuba is grown ct Vnelts
de Absjo. The best snutf comes from Ma
coubs, q village at Martinique, where the
Empress Josephine was born. The best
Turkish tobacco is that raised in Macedonia.
TOmbeski, which 10 exclusively smoked in
narghilens, comes from Persia. When good
it looks like new shoe leather used for soles.
Tombeski should be washed at least three
times before smoking. It is difficult to I'M
derstsnd the source of the pleasure derived
from tobacco. If it came from the sense of
smell we might engage servants TO smoke
for us and preserve the wilderness Of our
teeth ae we'll as the inoffensiveness of our
hair and clothes. If it depended on taste
we should get more joy out of a.quid than
ont of q cigar. 1t can not belong to the
touch, because chocolate pastllles and some
needle caees feel like cigars in hand. The
sight seems to have part in our delectaticn,
because tobacco is almost deprived of its
perfume by darkness; yet if lite SAVIOR de-
pended wholly on light, suggests q sage
who has lost all mental conference in smoky
thoughts, obacco would give more pleasure
in the sunshine than in the shadow, and no
true smoker ever piped assent to such q
statement.
Van Helmont, travelling in desert place.,
AYERS that tobacco protected him for long
periods against hunger and fatigue, and de-
ciares that he could make immense jour.
neys on foot with no other sustenance. DR..
Stephenson, an American physician, OBJ
served that tobacco may be almost counted
on ss q specific in certain forms of intism-
matory erysipelas.. He covers the infamed
surface with wet tobacco leaves and keeps
them there till nausea supervenes. A mem
Der of the college of medicine at Stockholm
AYERS that the dried leaves of the potato
plant would answer the came purpose,
and that far better smoking Ingredients
may be made from them than from
the coarse variety of tobacco in common
use. Much Of the tobacco sold At Hamburg
and Bremen is mixed with potato leaves.
The tobacco which comes from Maryland is
the only sort which can be smoked in short
pipes without DANCE to the mucous men,
brane of the mouth. 1t mingles impercept-
IDLY with the potato leaf, and the adultera-
ton can hardly be detected. A learned
man declares that We are previously in error
who talk Of "meerschsum" pipes; we should
say "Kummer" pipes, and commemorate
our obligations to the discov-
erer Of q compound which has nothing to
do with the sea nor with its foam. An
seim, who has written profound work on
pipes, instructs mankind that they should be
OF the simplest forms, go as to be easily
cleaned, and that there should never be
any wood. metal, caoutchOuc or horn con-
nected with them. Hummer pipes may be
cleaned by pouring streams of
boiling coffee through them. 1t is wise
course to bake clay pipes in hot oven, af-
ter the dinner has been taken out of it.
Pipes have had names, like swOrds-names
born OF love or glory: and one lie known to
history as "Anastasia," one as Paradise"
The first belonged to poet, the other to
Omer Pasha, who had a name to conjure
with among the Turks. Tobacco is be-
lieved to have destroyed the art of converse
ton; but perhaps it has only improved it.
Smoking does not render talk impossible or
even difficult; but it cOndenses it and
a l0ng-win6ed discourse into an epigram.
It is at the bottom of the difference between
the Welshman's prayer and that of Nav.
worm. "GOOd night, sir" he remarked to
his patron saint, "few words are BEST"
MawwOrm has never done with
words, and would let his pipe out in more
ways than one, while that Of the more an
Gent and acute Briton would keep alight.
The smoker wants no other furniture than
some German finder. If he begins to bur
den himself with amber mouthpieces, clips,
9Au ptuCcIo, uO CooScS " 10 y mau buu 10.
comes q cupboard. Directly the first ash
falls off it the flavor is impaired, and the
,moke becomes hot acrid and unwhole-
some. Smoking, which has greatly in
creased of recent years, is, at all events,
much better than taking snuff, which dis
,raced the very waistoOate of our fore
sathers. Had our noses" unused q philos- |
,pber, "been intended for dust-holes they
would have been turned the other way" |
Possibly. And it lie by no means clear to |
ogical intellects that our mouths were in |
ended for chimneys. or they might with
more fitness have been opened at the top of |
,ur heads, and every man might |
ave served as q barometer to his
leighbor, who could have foreseen
he state of the weather by noting |
whether his neighbor was blinded by his |
wn smoke or otherwise. Youth and love |
epart from 10. Tobacco remains, and per |
APPS it consoles rs. 1t Is the only form of /
appiness which is left to some whom the /
World has treated unkindly. "Je te lsisse
"a femme ct ma pine; je to rec0mmande
lien ma pier" were the last words of Cav
rms vagabond. The dying good.for-
othing was not ungrsteful. No man has
yer laughed in smoking, We are rather
rave with glad thoughts over our tobacco,
nd the moralizing, or demoralizing, weed
SENS silently to convey to US the great
ruth OF life, with which we do we'll to
row familiar, "Tu quOque in pulverem
everteris." That is, all Of No but the odor
good deeds.-PaH Man Budget.
"Ihe discourse" says Franklin, sis often
lach better than the speaker, - sweet
40 clear water often comes through dirty