Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1890-04-16

Some men take out their pen.kuives
aud carefully cut the end Of cigar,
moistening the loose wrspper aud
smoothing it with they fors6nger.
It will be . long time before the
majority Of smokers Judge Of the
strength Of . cigar not by the wrap
per but by the kind Of tobacco that
10 inside tho wrapper. Most .moksrs
know that elAro is the mildes. grade
OF . cigar. Colorado clsro 10 the
next, then colorado maduro, the"
colorado medium, aud msduro strong
~st. But they do not think tina,
the wrapper forms but small part Of
the bulk of . cigar, and that its
strength or mild"ess 10 determined
by the filler, aud not BY the wrapper.
A smoker who wants mild cigar will
not take one with . dark wrapper,
though the filler and binder may he
mild. He can. not see the 6ller aud
binder without digging in the wrap.
per, % he judges from the wrapper
only.
Different manufacturers grade their
cigars differently. Some manufae.
turers' Colorado olaro 10 ~ mild q
other manufacturer claro. Ameri
cans run to light cigars, aud the i'm
porters cater 70 this demand. Most
gssdss OF cigars are either Colorado
clAro or Colorado, judging from the
marks on the boxes in . New York
cigar store.
There 10 . common belief that i'm.
ported cigars are better Than domestic
cigars even 1t the Same price. It il
hard to get . good imported oiga'
cheaper than % or so . hundred,
An excellens domestic cigar can b
bought for that price. a. The tobacco
fos cigars can b imported and the
cigars mads ia THE coontry cheaper
than tho imported cigars can be sold
here. The duty on imported cigar,
is proportjonately higher THAI the
duty o" imported tobacco. There are
- skilled cigarmAkers here - in Cuba,
though they do not work in exactly
the same way. Usually an American.
made cigar is 6rmsr and has bette'
finish than On imported cigar Of the
same price.
Cigars have nomenclature Of thei'
own, which few smokers pick up. A
man who buys his cigars BY the DO.
acquires . moro extensive knowledge
about them than the man who buys
tho cigars that be smokes two or three
1t = time. Cigars arc named accord
ing to their strength or mildness
their shape and the factory. There
are FIVE degrees Of strength ~ marked
on the boxes in the ordinary courss
of trade, though an expert can tell
different grades between them This
10 beyond the necessities Of man who
| only smokes cigars and does not deal
in them. Then there are the varioua
terms used to describe tho shape of q
| cigar. Coqueta Is ono If the smallest
| cigars, oonohs . medium, and per.
feoao largo. Figaro ia = shape BE-.
tween coqueta and ooncha. lnvenei
bio is perhaps the largest Of al,
though perfeoto cigars are made that
have - much tobacco - invencible
The invenc;bles arc the longest, some
of them being seven inches long.
The panatella shape 10 we'll known,
1t is about two thirds ~ long ~ 4
lead pencil, with almost tho same
diameter throughout. The pertec.o
is fairly long, big. bellied, and usually
dark in color. The invenoible is the
longest smoke. Beside these there
are . number of other names GORE.
spending to their shapes, but these
are the ordinary ones found 10 i'm.
ported cigars. domestic cigar man.
ufacturers do not paw so much atten.
lion to naming the cigars accurately
BY their shapes, and their customers
do not pick up the knowledge of the m
from tho boxes. Domestic cigars
have not ~ many marks on the boxes
describing the cigar - the imported
ones have.
Imported cigars can DO told by the
green import stamp on the box
There = . penalty sRainss using .
oigsr box twice, and particularly
against putting cigars in IN imported
cigar hog. but the only way to make
oerssiu that the cigars are imported !,
TO see that the import stamp has moi
bees broken. Some unscrupuloua
cigar dealers put domestic cigars ia
the Imported cigar boxes. One way
TO discover this 10 70 notice whether
the oigass just TT the box. It 10 moi
easy to put one cigar into another
box and Mske it 6t exactly. Beside,
this, these unscrupulous cigar dealers
often do not fairly understand The
marks, and they viii put tho colorado
msduro cigars into . box that l,
marked colorado claro. Almost avery
man can, tell the difference In .colol
between the two.
The name OF the factory is q fur,he,
distinctive adjective. besides the nam.
Of the shape aud the nsme Of thu
strength. For instance, Henry
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