Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-01-19

gentleman tough never invests in q
cheap smoke; he would prefer if reduced
to solitary niekle, to invest it in a
schooner of beer. 1t is always roll of
fragrant weed, and itsowner usually dis
plays his enjoyment on his face. The
eyes are generally half closed, and from
underneath the dropping lids comes a
shrewd twinkle of satisfaction as he in
hales each aromatic Whit. Then the
cigar is never in the front of the mouth
1t Is invariably stuck in at one corner OF
that useful orfice, and held atan acute
angle with the upper jaw. a good Whit
rarely comes from between the lips, the
smoke even when not inhaled, being
slowly emitted through the nostrils.
The cigar Is seldom removed to facili-
tate the occasional expectoration, the
cigar being screwed further back into
the angle of the mouth to allow the eject
ion of the saliva in the opposite direc-
ton. Every time you see q cigar smok-
ed in this fashion you can gamble that
the smoker is tough and in nine cases
out of ten you will win.
Then there is the purse proud, self
made business man who is of another
class with distinction of its own.
"He usually keeps the end of his cigar
aglow, representing the thought That is
uprermost, and at the same time the
most pleasing in it's owner'smine, viz
that business is ablaze. As he talks he
rolls it deftly about from one end OF his
mouth to the other, now letting off
cloud of smoke at this side, now at that,
as if bent upon exhibiting the complete
mastery he has attained in the line of
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as we'll as in everything else he turns his
hands to. When he is engaged in con
versation he keeps his head slightly
askew, with one eye watching the smoke
of his cigar, and the other upon the
person he is speaking to or listening
to.
"Then you have the man of genuine
thought, who is wrapped up in the
earnest contemplation of many subjects,
and whose active mind and energie body
are engaged in working them out. He
keeps the cigar continually stuck ont
straight under his nose, IA If acting the
part of q finger post to his mind, eter-
ally pointing straight onward. II has
once been lit, but not smoked beyond
two or three puffs, and then allowed to
go out again. There it sticks neglected
and unnoticed,
at is never relinquished; the cold,
dead ashes remain on the end like the
projects aud hopes that have been blast.
ed
"rhere is another ,lass whose style is
also remarkable and somewhat ludicrous.
In fact | never see a swell or social dandy
smoking cigar or cigarette that l don't
feel certain amount of pity for him.
He is, as a rule, wrapped up in the con
tenn plation of the good form ia which
he smokes it. He is most particular as
to the position it is allowed to droop
from his supercilious lip and the proper
angle at which the elbow should be bent
as he occasionally removes his cigar be-
tween the second aud tnird fingers of his
delicate hand All this he can only &C
quired by long aud careful training. Elk
cept in the handling of his walking cane
alone, there is perhaps no out door &C
complshment in which the average dude
can so efIectually display his character as
in the manner in which he smokes.
"The absent minded man, like the con
tenplative man, never has his cigar lit.
He ignites the end at every cigar stand
he passes, and let's go out again before
it, and thiks he is chews instead of smoit-
ing tobacco, and occasionally be sticks
the fiery enk into his mouth by way of
change. This has the effect of suddenly
recalling his wandering thoughts.
BY a great good fortune large part
of one of the finest and largest of the
libraries of ancient times has been re-
covered. 1t was collected in the very
heighth of the power OF Assyria by
king who reigned from Media to Egypt,
the great AssurbanIpal, the Sardapapalus
of the Greeks. This king, whose rule
extended from 667 to 625 B. c., was no
such eliminate monarch as is described
by the Greek historians, but was sue
cessful warrior and very M@cesas of
letters. His grand library unlike those
of Egypt Greco. and Rome, has been
preserved because the books we're writ
ten, not on parchment or papyrus, but
on clay. al organic textures perish but
bit of earthenware is as nearly imPer-
ishable as anything man can make. The
Assyrians wrote their books on tablets of
soft clay. 1t was moulded INTO the shape
of cushion or pillow, which for small
business documents would be from little
more than an inch square to about three
inches by two, or even little larger.
But for large documents-books OF liter
allure or science-much larger tablets
we're used, and divided into succession
of columns on the two sides. The writ
ing was done with stylus, which was
not cut to point, but was cut square,
like the end of pocket rule. With such
square corner it is easy upon pot of
clay, or Of bit of plotting paper, to
initiate the peculiar wedges OF the cum
form writing. The clay tablet having
been carefully inscri ed, it was fired, ard
produced light colored and permanent
terra-cotta. Ordinary contract tablets
were not necessarily burned, but were
simply sun dried. Thousands OF these
busiues tablets have been unearihed in
Babylon and vicinity, all accurately dated
and invaluable for chronology
Fire at Paw Paw, Michigan, Friday
morning destroyed several stores, caus-
ing loss Of 100000.
"Grandma" Garfield, mother OF Pfesi-
dent Garfield, Is dangerously Ill at the
old homestead at Mentor.
| All the train robbers who have been