Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-03-06

While seeking information among re-
tail tobacconists. a peculiar preparation
of tobacco used for the manufacture of
a certain inferior class of cigarettes in
Havana was spoken of to the reporter,
and with some difficulty it was learned
that a German merchant who is not in
that line of trade had box of peculiar
garS sent to him some time ago from
Germany as a sample, with a purpose
of inducing him to undertake putting
them on this market.
flake cigar" he said Hospitality,
offering box half full of the s'weeds,' -
and lighting one of them himself. Eyes,
did have some such cigars sent to me
awhile ago, but declined to have any
thing to do with them, as there was no
profit in them. They could not pay
duty and compete with the class of CT
gars thew would be expected to run
against here. Peculiar manufacture"
es, rather. The richest. oiliest, rank
est to oacco brought from some of the
VI est Indian islands is first put through
a process exactly Ike that of making
paper pulp. While it is in that state
chemstry's aid is invoked to entirely
change its character. The clements
that render it rank and offensive are
ell minated from it: other essential oils
and others are added 10 it. 1t can be
made to exactly counterfeit any tobacco
in the world, even the finest from the
Vuelta de Abajo.
''When it is Just right. it is run out in
film, that gradually grows in thick
ness to a eet, Just as paper is made
Upon thi, sheet certain acids are lightly
sprinkled in minute drops here and
there, to simulate upon the perfected
sheets the little spots and blotches that
you see in the genuine tobacco le;'f.
The color has already been attended to
and regulated so that it VIII come out
just ri lat for any shade of cigar, from
a tlaro to an Oscuro, but now other
essential oils are tou he'd to the sheet
n the most del ate way, to give the
rich oily CLOS or sub-tautaneo color
so o socak. hat will be observed on he
finest ,rk leaf. Finally. the sheetgo, S
between rover III steel rollers u on the
carefully mat he'd sur a es OF which are
deeply engraved exact reproductions in
the m st delicate detail of markings of
genuine tobacco leaves. " hen those
leav $ are cut out of the shees, it re-
quires the skill of an expert to deter
mine that they are not real. The rem
/ ayes are a.c riding to their quality,
made into ciga or chop ed up into
filing for cigarettes. By the way, h W
do you like that cigar you are smoking
uow?H
VERY well.'
Good tavor9 Burns well2 Holds
we'll its fine white ASH
To all your queries Yes
"Well t a is one o the cigars I have
deserts ed to You the making of Take
this knife and cut il open. Examine its
wrapper and the filler carefully. l am
not surprised to hear You say that it
looks like tul al leaf and that YOU
can trace the lines of ie veins and fine
stems in it. OF C urse YOU can. But
tear bit in two and look at it's edg-
w tn this ma nifying glass. Do YOU o j.
serve that its fibers are irregularly dis
posed of Girls cross. just like this bit of
paper that l ar and put under the
glass? A natural leaf does not tear in
that way. 5 rape it and VI II will sec
that its bers sera ate from their ho'd
in different directions. Soak it in water
and ii W II become soft and pull apart
like laper. 1t is m ly tobac op per.
No. do not know that there are in TIL s
country any more of these cigars than
the few ha e eft. do not til NIX that
there are. But L know that great guam
titles of them are sold all over Europe.
and that the expectations to South
America are quite large. People there
smoke them in prefe ence to the g .nu-
inc and good real lea cgar- grown
and made in their own cou tries. " ell,
perhaps they don't know how the i'm
ported ones are made. A dealer need
not feel Il compulsory upon him to IL,
and Their g or a. deal of virtue in d
label TO the average cigar smoker. -
N. Y. San.