, 1888-02-02
Havana and American Cigars Compared.

Havana and American Cigars Compared.
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The cultivation of tobacco in the
northern states is carried on artiticially by
stimulants of the fields and by the use Of
fire in the drying house. The thriftiest
farmers on the globe are thus substituting
tobacco for grain, seeing the difficulty of
competing with the great western grain
fields. 1t is one of the pleasures of ciYili-
Zation that mems wants increase and
vary, and labor is called 10 supply them
and thus some old region rises into new
activity and the monotOny and competi-
ton of one or two crops ceases.
| saw Governor Warmoth the other
day, who had been in France looking at
the beet cultivation, TO see if anything
could be done, especially in the beet-roOt
sugar machinery for the help of Louisiana
and her sugar growth. \ few days after
| heard canard, | suppose from Il French
newspaper, that Narmoth and other per.
SONS were going 10 buy Cuba from Spain,
so as to get hold of the tobacco of that
island and annex the island to the United
States. No tobacco for cigar purposes has
ever been found like that of Cuba. None
of the adjacent islands approach it in TO
bacco culture. y Havana cigar is q lux.
ury wherever wealth and power live.
The next tobacco in quality to that OF
Cuba is said TO be from the United States.
The East Indies produce tobacco good
enough to make smoke come and lull the
head, but l have found, who have been
smoking more or less for the past twenty
seven years, that l can do better with
American cigars, if they are made pure,
than with Havana cigars. One good Ha-
Vana cigar after dinner or with a full
stomach is delight; but riding over the
country a man can pull half day ON our
own mildeT tobacco and not lose his nerv-
Gus system.
These little tobacco factories are start
ing up in all villages. You can ride
through Pennsylvania and MARYLAND, and
at every little place of from three to four
Inhabitants you viii see 4 cigar factory
Two cigars for cents is the common
price, and man who smokes n scent
cigar is little of an aristocrat, yet the
making of these cigars by girls and boys
keeps change atioat and nurses the germs
of taste and art.
PhOtOsraphinE sound.
[Cornhill Magazine.
Til recently no one would have dreamed
Of applying photography to acoustics; but it
is now possible to photograph sound, or
speaking more correctly, sound vibrations,
and Prof. Boltzman is now announced as the
dlScoVerer OF What at nrSt might Wei be re-
garded with inCredulity. The souEd vibra-
tions are communicated 70 a thin platinum
plate, and the movements of the plate, after
bling magnified by 6 solar microscope, are
reflected on to a screen, and photographed by
rapidly drawing sensitive plate across the
image. Every letter when pronounced gives
separate and distinct impression, tie
yoHiels showing regular undulatory vibra-
tions, while the consonants give curves and
lines CT very varied forms.
The uses of an arrangement like this may
be fnnumerable We can almost imagine
that when the process is perfected, caves
droppers and spies will have a very easy
time, and need 10 run no risks in order to
obtain secret information; small insti u
ment secretly placed in a room, and acting
automatically, may copy down every word
spoken; nay, it is far more chimerical to than
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