Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-19
How the High-Toned Smokers of
Gotham Stocked Up on Havanas
to Escape the New Tariff.
TOBACCO'S EFFECT on HEALTH.
A New Self-Lighting Cigar and a Pipe
That Can be Cleaned With q
Little Puff of Breath.
SMOKING THE PIPE on THE STREET
Detroit Man Who Kus Been Grinding Up Stubs Into
q Very Marketable Snuff

The rush for Havana cigars Just before
the new tariff law went into effect, writes
Charles 7. Murray from New York to THE
DISPATCH, was something wonderful.
While the bulk of the sales made BY the big
wholesale houses was made to retail dealers,
a considerable amount was taken by In
dividual customers. The firms of Acker,
Merrill & Condit and Park & Tiliord sold
in two davs $1,000 and 100, 900 imported
cigars, respectively. This embraced about
everything they had on hand, not only the
surplus accumulated in anticipation of the
change in the duty, but all OF their old
stock.
Much of the latter was really unmarked
able-that is, it would have been unmarked
able except to an excited crowd of BUYERS,
who thought they were getting good thing
cheap. 1t was pretty good thing for the
wholesalers. As for The buyers, they focked
about like a crowd of women at auction
or around a bargain counter. The clerks
couldn't serve their customers fast enough.
Men bought cigars they didn't need, and
went away apparently happy with brands
they had never before smoked and of which
they knew nothing.
One would think that men who can afford
to pay and do pay from S25 to SIS hundred
for cigars would care very little for few
dollars more per thousand; that they would
at least buy with some discretion and eau
ton. But there are good many men in
New York who smoke from 25-cent to 81
cigars who begrudge a waiter 10-cent tip,
and are extraordinarily careful when it
comes to paying more than cent for a news
paper. Ii some of these swells got badly
bitten on their recently acquired stock of
cigars nobody will weep for them.
SELF-LIcHTING CIGAR.-Another nov
city in cigars has been patented by Thomas
West. of Decatur, Ala. and Ephraim NJ.
Turner, OF Fort Worth, Texas, consisting
OF device BY which each cigar is readily
ignited without matches or spills The
idea is a disk of paper impregnated with
saItpeter, which covers the end of the cigar,
and through which is inserted a match
head arrangement for the purpose OF igni-
ton. The whole is secured to the cigar by
wire legs, which are pushed into the cigar
When used the match lights the paper,
which smolders and lights the cigar.
There are several objections TO be raised.
says Tobacco: The first is the deleterious
effects of the saltpeter fumes on the throat,
the tendency of the cigar tip to break in
striking the match and so be rendered un-
smokable, and the heating of the wires.
which are liable to burn the clothes if it
tails on them, or the finger if the ash is
flicked off
A NOVEL PIPE.-There have been mauy
pipes placed on the market fitted with de- |
vices for cleansing the stem when desired. |
but all have had some drawback or other. |
not perceived until in actual use. Charles |
Angus, Of Albany, n. Y, says Tobacco,
now seems to have a good idea. The novelty
is a small plug, which passes transversely
through the bowl. This plug is shown at
A. 1t will he seen that the portion OF the
plug directly under the bowl of the
pipe is cut away on one side, and
that the stem draught of the pine
extends from the mouthniece etroioht