, 1885-09-03
TOBACCO in AL ITS FORMS.
a Denier's Chat About Cigars. Cigarette
and the Old Time snun.

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and the Old Time snun.
Bslt nl-e lie aid
SIS the quality OF native tobacco be-
coming better.
Yes. replied the dealer. Most
certainly, II you refer to tobacco used
in the manufacture of cigars. he
quality Of the leaf grown in Pennsyl.
vania, Wisconsin and Florida has
grown decidedly better since its intro
duction and culture. For some reason,
however, the Connecticut leaf
appears to be de%.eriorating in
texture and flavor. Perhaps it is boz
causo sufficient attention has not been
paid to its cultivation in that state, or
it may have been too heavily phos-
phated. Now, on the other hand. the
quality OF Havana tobacco Is likewise
suffering. This. too. is from a custom
which was established some years since
of putting guano on the soil. 1t is still
true that there is but one Havana to-
bacco, and that its incompatible flavor
can not be initiated or reproduced on
any other soil than that of Cuba, but
even that flavor has lost much of its ex-
quisiteness. The growers on the island
have long sought more after quantity
than quality, and their cupidity has
placed them where the; deserved to
be-"
"Wh4t becomes OF the tobacco grown
in Maryland, asked the reporter, who
never remembered having seen the name
of Maryland leaf advertised in connec-
ton with any brand of cigars.
The dealer smiled. "A very natural
uestion, - he said. MANY others have
tpnuIar.I xrbuf hanop,au 81 ft. loruo
crop that Is yearly grown in this state.
II IS sent to Europe-mostly to France
where /" Is manufactured into cigars
that bring good prices. Tho leaf is
much liked there because of its peculiar
flavor. \ great many smokers say they
like SHmatra tobacco. The Sumatra
leaf is pretty in appearance, but devoid
of flavor, brittle and becomes full of
cracks wien used for wrappers. There
is not a more unsatisfactory tobacco in
the market"
Does there promise to be Il revival
of snuff taking
81 think not, no signs have appeared.
The use OF snuff has now almost alto
gether been dropped. EXCEPT in the
country. 1t is still extensively used in
the south by the colored people. Nearly
all the snuff sold in the nited States is
manufactured by one firm in New YORK.
The sell annually ovor /. 900, 600 pounds,
of which o;er one half is consumed in
Louisiana, Georgia, tennessee and
south carolina. The natives smear it
on n stick and rub the stick around in
the mouth. They derive thereby = mild
stimulation. / do not believe the use of
snuff will ever becomo again general
among the better classes. IL is a dirty
habit, even more repulsive than tobacco
chewing. Nowadays, you do not sec
any c ccpt old persons carrying n snuff
TO, o. I most a surcdly do not
think hat the habit will ever DO re-
yiyed.
is the sale Of cigarettes increasing
very largely was asked.
~ cs. notwithstanding the great hui
lntalioo made about them from time to
time 10y physicians and clergymen, their
popularity is immensely on the increase,
and they have superseded cheap cigars
10 a very considerable extent they
have an immense advantage over a ci-
gar which all the preaching in the
world can never knock out OF the head
OF lovers of the weed-they are Just the
thing when one is hungering for awhif
or two and has only n moment or per-
haps lie 5 to spare. 1t is not particu-
larry the avor Of the cigarette that
has made it what it is, bat its marvel
Gus hardness. The business has grown
to immense proportions. In Baltimore
over 5000, 900 cigarettes are made
every day, and in New York three times
as many more