Telegram-herald., 1889-11-11


Baly Floraace. ga hls re1ara from .
European mp. - always sal-s - have q .
80 u hancs csollely carved pes as sollYe- .
Eirs f.r rs frieads. Tie late K. A.
sotleru LORD D4lereary Smoked Ike
chimney. cut Jshn Z. Raymond was ex-
ceEElo1A.ly sirt.soas IA rlls respect 4ls
l.llzs q the drzlar.e profession lrlncl-
pals afecI cigarettes. blt, on lae sly.
laaav u then 60 ust 1ls4ain S fragrant
elear. TIE hablr IS necoulrg prevalent
among tae fast young girls in ti-e female
cc.iezes, ard even f4sAlola9ls asslr
might nlAay & tale unfold u its solemn
sails ccul1 reveal the secrets Ct Tie
frol-csoule inmates.
We a. know how Isaac Newton lost
his So eelhearI. because la NJ Of a0-
stralrlon be used heF finger O. stop his
piDe. and whoever has read ''Ile Cricket
ca the Hearth Will easily recognize
smoker in Charles Dickens, when. speak
ing u Dot. g. .vs. she was out and
ooE ths very dler of q pipe. should
say, H. the f-l quarters of the gi01e.
To see her pu- -.--t chubby E--le finger
pipe 70 clear the tube anl VIXEN she bad
done 80, affect 70 think thar there really
vas something in the tube. and blow
dozen times and hold DC % her eve Ike <
telescope. with most pr0gOAng twist
iu Der capital little face, IS she looked
down IL. was quite a brilliant thing. As
o. the tobacco. She was perfect mistress
u the subject; and ths lighting or the
pipe with a wsp OF paper, when the
Carrier had it IN bis mouth-going so
very near his nose, and yet not scorch-
ing twas Art. high Art"
The habits Of famous authors in re
spect % the use OF tobacco are interest
ing Milton never went 70 bed without
bis pipe and glass Of water. Shake
speare did not smoke. nor d,d Goethe,
Shelley, Wordsworth Keats. Addison
had q pipe in his mouth AZ all hours.
After ms daily dinner, Hobbies smoked
until after night,au Carlyle was a
steady smoker tOr years. Tcnnyson has
pulled" 10 h.5 pipe for nearly half
century. Sir Walter Scott smoked In
his carria ,- and regularly after dinner
and loved a short clay pire Byron
wrote about sublime tobacco" but in
dulged in its use only mod rately.
Douglas Jerrold Thackeray, Bayard
Taylor, Lord Lytton, Lord Houghton
and Campbell worked while putting CT
cars or pipes. Neither Washington
Irving nor Bryant used the weed in any
way. C0leriiEe. when cured Of his
opium habit. took 70 snuf, and Prescott.
the historian, when limited by his physi-
clan 10 one cigar a day, drove all over
Paris 10 buy tine biggest one he could
find.
Pursuing the subject further from
professional point of view, the writer
asked Professor Mott what in his iudg-
ment were the best means OF avoiding
injury from the excessive use of the
weed?
Il should urge the smoker" he re-
piled, "to observe two conditions. First.
yhe quality Of the tobacco, and second, if
pipes are used. the quality of the pipe
anil its stem. Nicotine takes its name
from Jean Nicot, whointroduced tobacco
into France in 1880, and in its poisonous
power i scarcely inferior 70 prussic acid.
Some tobaccos contain about per cent,
others 8. and some nearly Z. 1t is rare,
however, that hundred pounds OF the
dry leaf yields more than seven pounds
Of nicotine. IN smoking q hundred
grains Of tobacco, therefd-e, say a quar-
ter of an ounce, it IS possible 10 draw
into the mouth two grains or moro Of the
most subtle Of poisons, but the proportion
VIII vary with the variety, the rapidity
of smoking. Che length Of the pipe. the
material Of which it is made, and other
circumstance.
"In most oriental countries where
smoking is constant habit, the natives
use long stcmmed pipes in which the
leaf burns slowly, added to which is a
bowl containing perfumed water, or
other ii1uiI. through which the smoke
passes, leaving behind part Of its pois-
0nous vap0r. The reservoirs Of some Of
the German p.oe7 arc death traps. be-
cause they retain the crosser portions Of
tine tobacco. while the cigar discharges
directly into jae mouth all that results
from tue combustion of the weed. You
win understand. therefore. that a good
pipe should be porous, ike the Powha-
tan clay or cornc0b, with on ample
bowl that perm IS frequent cleaning. and
wi,h q long stem of absorbent quality
that VIII take Ip the gummy-like refuse
of the burned tobacco a1I the worst OF
tta poisonous elements cf the nicotine.
Besides. she~t pipe which discharges