Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1889-02-15
EGYPTIAN CIGARETTES,
A Few Important Facts Relating to
Dangerous Commodity.

N rev important Iacts Relating to
Dangerous Commodity.
The bales are opened as required,
and the various leaves mixed so that
four different priced qualities result, the
best kind being that in which there is
the least Smyrna tobacco and the least
percentage of large leaves. If cigar
cites are made exclusively of the best
leaves, which are light yellow brown
in color and measure only four by two
inches, the aroma is very pleasant, but
the smoker gets Il headache after about
five of them. The middle leaves, when
dry, measure about seven by four and
a half inches, and the lowest leaves OF
all are considerably larger. Cairo air
is so dry that the leaves must be
damped with water here before being
cut, but in Alexandria this is not nee.
essary. English-made machines cui
up the leaves, and on the following day
the cigarettes are rolled by Greek, Syr-
ian or Jewish workmen. A clever work
man can roll up as many as 1,500 day.
The cigarettes are then carefully over
hauled by an expert, left week to dry
and then packed in tin boxes for sale
They should, of course, be smoked di.
rectly, instead OF being kept, as is too
often the case in England. So much
for the tobacco; now for the paper. All
large Cairo firms employ one kind of
paper only, which is made by half
English firm at Fiume, near Trieste 1t
comes to Alexandria in foolscap sheets,
and is there cut up to the required size.
1t is not known how it is made, or
whether it is chiefly rice straw; but the
merchants here all VOW that it is the
best they can get. If one is right in
suspecting the paper instead of the to-
bacco, it might be well to try to get
cigarettes rolled in tobacco leaves in
stead of paper. The only other ingredi-
ent left to consider is the starch for join
ing the paper. This is used with thin
stick by the men who roll the cigarettes.
may say that each workman is allowed
to smoke as many cigarettes (say forty)
as he likes during his work, and is
presented with ten every night to take
home with him. The first establishment
that | visited only came into being five
years ago, but now it has three branch
shops in London, and one in Bombay,
Berlin and New York. The proprietors
sell only / per cent. OF their cigarettes
in Egypt, but export 600 900 week to
England besides 400, 600 weekly to In
dia, Europe, China, Australia, etc My
second visit was paid to well known
purvcyor, who exports 250 900 n week
to England alone, where ! saw 100 men
rolling cigarettes, and bales full of the
best tobacco leaves At the third house
| was shown several bales of Jobeck
tobacco from Yenidje. This consists of
specially selected leaves, and is the fin
est possible from Turkey. This pro-
prietor sends about 1885, 900 every week
to England. My fourth visit was to a
man whom | had never heard OF before,
but who was keenly alive to
the correspondence in the Eng
lish newspapers. He sends every
week more than 80. 900 cigarettes to
England, and greater quantity to
Germany. Although in smaller line
of business than the others, he gets his
leaves and his papers from the same
spot as his competitors. There are. OF
course many other reputable establish.
ments in Cairo besides these four.
which, as / have shown, supply every
week 1000, 900 cigarettes to England
alone, and about the san number t.
other parts of the world My opinion
is that no opium or other drug is mixed
with the tobacco, and even in the
hasheesh dens the devotee buys bit oil
the cannabis indica ext.act and miScs
it himself with the tobacco. In cnu-
olusion, one practical hint from a wise
old Oriental who smokes seventy or
eighty cigarettes a day, his vile smoking
almost as great n number: Always use n
cigarette holder, and In the holder a
tiny plug OF cotton wool previously
dipped In lemon juice and changed
every. time with tho cigarette. London
Lancet.
1t would never do for women to
take up burglary as profession. Some
ipvantiya man would devise n ciin N in o