Morning journal and courier., 1882-04-19
Price Four Cents.


 free from vanilla, but it's effects are compara-
 lively harmless when not too freely used.
 The tonka bean and balsam of fir are also
 much employed in the same way, and for the
 same purpose Cedar oil is a fine favor but
 is seldom used except in a fine quality of ci-
 gar. really fine cigar can hardly be said
 to improve under any manipulation beyond
 the necessary curing.
 ''The tobacco flavor may be very well iEi-
 tated, with 8 little assistance, of course, from
 the original article. The best thing now
 known for that purpose is valeriau. It is
 very largely used, but as it is accepted by
 most people as an excellent nervine, I should
 not consider it's effects injurious. Vanilla
 and Falerisn are doubtless the most valuable
 chemicals now in vogue among the tobacco
 nists. By their use the dullest and weakest
 stems may be favored up into fair article
 of tobacco. They are largely used in those
 smoking grades which are sometimes heavily adultersted with eoarsely ground barks.
 Cigarette tobacco is the most highly favored
 of all, not excepting even chewing tobacco,
 which is we'll known to be pretty heavily prepared, as we say. Not oLly valerian and
 vanilla, but cascarilla bark enters into ciga-
 rette tobaccos. They are generally made of
 very ordinary tobacco, except when prepared
 by large manufacturers who have reputs-
 ton to sustain. To make cigar burn well ammonia is no doubt the best thing now known, though with the poorer qualities the
 old plan of soaking the tobacco in a stiff so- lution of saitpetre is still largely adhered to. The latter practice must be injurious and should be wholly discarded
 'sThis matter of burning Is an important one. 4 manufacturer, in trying his leaf. will have sample cigar made of it, and getting fair light will lay 1t horizontally upon table. Then, taking out bis watch, he will pote the time it continues to burn. Manufacturers r.x;n fr,u Eoba rrhfaE Sc rrza in all respects but that of burning well. He gets it, of course, at a lower figure on that account, and then turns 1t over to his chem ist Those scientific fellows usually bring it up to the standard The value of 2 chemist depends not alone upon his ability to i'm prove a poor article, hut to equalize and blend the fiavors of different lots and then he must be able to so manipulate the goods as to suit particular markets. It Is curious fact that cigars made for New Jersey buyers differ as greatly in color, appearance and flavor from the New York standard, as those made especially for the western trade. In our large cities, however, ths taste in cigars varies but little In Cincinnati, as in New York or Boston, the great demand Is for fair or really good cigar. The number sold in New York is enormous; but many more cigars are retailed here at ten cenIs than at five In towns and villages the opposite Is the case. Extra fine cigars are also largely called for here. For the best cigars we use smooth, silky Havana top leaf and stemless filings of the fine Partaga quality.
 s1The best tobacco in the world Is, without doubt, that grown in the Via Hunda, near Havana Most of the best tobacco IS grown in valleys. It Is as true of the best Massa- chusetts or Connecticut as Of the Havana Rx- tiele Salt air has an excellent influence on tobacco, when growing, and light sandy or loamy soils are best for 1t. The first quality tobacco is that possessing the finest fibre, and the least quantity of nicotine. In these points the Havana leaf stands pre-eminent.
 tsIt Is true that manufacturers often give an intoxicating quality to cigars This ss ac- complished by dipping the filings into B solution of sulphuric ether and bromide of potassium formula similar to that of Hoffman's Anodyne is also used. Tobacco thus prepared is no doubt injurious Tn the long run The peculiar effects of certain class of cigars are unquestionably due to their being fixed up with so-called nerTines. narcotics and stimulants.
 ssIt would not do to state the particular formulss we use, though I may say that the flavor now most largely employed Is com bination of vanilla, yalerian and New Eng land rum. The poisons made use of are to be found chiefly in the essential oils- 1t would be useless to deny that they are largely used, though the quantity in a single cigar is very small and of little importance. If cigar smoking is injurious at all. I should say that :s owed it's evil effect rather to its inherent nicotine than to it's deliberations. except where the latter are of an outrageous charac- ter''
 .I Tell Ysu. You're Dead'-Ludferous
 Performance of a Trio of BacehanaiIam
 Youths at serwood. Mass.
 An amusing incident occurred st Norwood Wednesday night. Three young men had
 TNz l flaD0 zH duence of liquor they started for home. Ar irving in town one of the trio, MT. Wiggin, fell down near the cemetery and remained motionless His companions, assuming that be had suddenly expired, thought the most appropriate place for the body was the re- ceiving tomb, and they accordingly stumbled so the residence of the graveyard keeper and, arousing him, requested the keys of the tomb, to place inside dead body. Thought Iessly, the custodian handed over the key. Later however the thought occurred to him that he had no right to. surrender the key. So he dressed and with light went to the tomb, where he found Mir WiggiD, struggling to free himself from the clutches of his com- panions, who were endeayoring to place him in the tomb, with such unceremonial words as sI tell you, you're dead; don't you sup pose we know ?'' WiggIn shrieked, s1 ain't dead Mir. Sumner remonstrated with the young men but to no avail. They insisted, with theIr drunken sincerity, that Wiggln was dead, and that they were doing broth erly act in providing resting place for the body. under the assurance. that If either Of them wore dead Wiggin would do xhe same by them. With the danger of being buried alive and the gloominess of the tomb Wiggin was we'll sobered, but as Mir Sumner was an old man wiggin could not get any aid from him, and would have been oyerpcwered had not an officer appeared upon the scene, and Wiooin was rescued from premature grave
 The CataeIysm of I7z3.