The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1881-04-05
TOBACCO.
A Passing sSrang" view Gifts use.
81 q naFNfiT-T
a few points in its History. aud
Some opinions that; vary from
Those usually expressed. NOo
ia. sourn KrN4ucK1ANg ~

! ami remarked abous the weather
1 which circumstance ofiIis shifting re
minded me that some men in Chris
tian county use 1the weed" Per
chance there. are men of your nc
quaintancewho use tobacco to excess
II Gsncli there be, allow me to warn
them of the injury they thus wish
upon themselves and upon those wEC
are influenced by their example
Any Single gentleman viii tell you
that he has frequently received no
for All answer merely because he put
out the, fire with amber before he
popped the question, some married
men prematurely OF an aged appear
ance will tell you that they were
ljcrked bald headed by their wives on
account Of the condition of their
hearth when she got through clean.
ing up the supper table; And an
Ohio man died before he ever filled
an Office, at the early age of one HIM.
dred and fourteen years from immod.
crate. use Of our chief product.
WIS -ilately fold -thatoa former ac-
qaaiiltaliee, ola aunt Sticky Soap
suds, sat in the corner ana smoked
FUN she died, as dry as cracking, a,
the age of ninety Peter. Suffers,
my. informant, said there was not
enough grease left in her to'fry a
sparrow and Ovid Bollus said that
WREN they vent 10 hell together the
devil'had to catch oil drippings from
parson Overfeds body and haste her
with them before she would burn,
All this came from using too much
tpbocco. 4 mr. III
Sir.1 Waller Raleigh was in his
Study one evening smoking quietly
when his waiter thinking he was OH
fire (or under fire or in, fire p dashed
bucket of water over the gent and
spoilt his, new suit of clothes, and
when DIR. Simmons went to town and
came back staggering heltold his vile
that he had only smoked cigar, So
gentlemen beware of the weed! Ii
staggered our worthy physician il
spollt7 o. suit of clothes for Sir,
Walter; it dried up old Sucky Soap
suds; it killed the, Ohio, man in
early life before he had time to hold
All Office; il made the married gem
tleman,s hcad-to assume the outward
appearance ola pealed onion and il
turned the briIliancy of the single
gentleE ans hopes into the blackliess
OF despair. n - i5T,5a ie. i5 4JJ
The word tobacco has curious
history. When Columbus made his
second voyage to the new world he
discovered tue island of Cuba and
designed erecting fort thereon that
he might establish o colony and de-
yelop the country. With this end Id
view he sent an embassy OF men 10
The Interior town OF the island where
the chief or king resided that his con-
sent might be obtained and trouble
avoided. How many difficulties are
avoided by him who treats every
body with respect and how much
happier is"hls life. than the lives Or
our social Pepper boxes, Vinegar
crnits aud iclcleS who freeze by
their reserve. sour by their dyspepiic
manners or fire by their sarcasm all
who came in contact with them,
The chief gave his consent readily;
but no doubt would have annoyed
the Spaniards had they,failed.to treat
his Royal lIighness with the respect
of request. Tho chief invited the
embassy to due with him, which IN
vitation they thankfully accepted.
After eating several natives rolled
what the Spaniards considered dry
leayes into round bodies about the
size shape and length of a mans mid.
die finger and handed them to tho
Chief who selected one and put an
end OF it into his mouth, the SPAN
iards, seeing the,chief had done so,
each selected one and placed an end
into tlleir several mouths. The
chief lighted the outer end Of bis roll,
the Spaniards lighted the outer end
of theirs, the chief drew the smoke
Into his mouth Though tie roll and
pulled IL out, the Spaniards did like.
wise. the chief enjoyed his. but the
Spaniafds, inter repealed sirangula-
lions, concluded that their dinner had
not agreed with them and went aside
to do what the dog returned to.
Theseirolls the Indians called 'iobac.
coca hence the name of the weed.
What we call q cigar thei Cuban In.
dams called tobacco.
Several years afterwards the use of
tobacco became a court dissipation
in France. The use of it was carried
10 great excess; the sons ofNobie.,
men 'werep taught to- use, il in carly
boyhood. Ladies' addicted to its in
discriminate use were respected and
battered. for their accomplishment
and she,tha could hit o cats eye with
amber across the room was generally
reckoned the belle OF the evening. A
Count would squirt brown spittle
from between his teeth before he
kissed the Countess and retired TO
his club or else where; and the noble
Countess would puff smoke into her
husbands fuce ere kissing him good
bye aud would, take another Whiffl
while turning to call in her cavalier
servente. Dissipation ran riot oyer
France, and q terrible state of de-
praYity was reached by the people of
Paris.9 Tho surface of the Seine was
at times white with those unfortunate.
Accidens L'nour" whose mothers
were notacUesses. Something must
be done to avoid shower OF fire and
birthstone from onYhigh and man
was raised up TO meet the emergency.
One jean Nicot, French chemist,
analysed tobacco and demonstrated
tolthe Parisians that FIVE eighths OIL
The substance of tobacco was rank
poison, that straw drawn through a
pipe stem and drawn across a cat
nose would kill her IN minute.
The French, thus enlightened, inn |
nediately quit the excessive use of
.obacco5 and as Q, result the French
women became leaders of fashioh1
or the world and soon afterwards
Napoleon Bonaparte with French
lrny detied the combined powers of
europe. The poisonous five Fights
If tobacco is called Nicotine from |
Nicot the chemist who discovered it,
Smoking became very fashionable |
II England soon after Sir Walter
Raleigh introduced tobacco into that