Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1890-04-02
ALL About CIoARS.
" VIII !nterest SmOS=rs and Some
Others as Well

peISl!tlOus- II may De '-SuperStltlOnS
Is not the proper term for them. but
they are ideas and beliefs which are
founded on something else than knowI-
edge, and which man cannot well give
reasons for. y few OF these are that a
man should not smoke after breakfast
Or before meals, that imported cigars
are letter than domestic cigars, that a
cigar that has once gone out does not
smOka So we'll as a cigar burned through
steadily, that the last inch of cigar IS
the best and that the strength OF a cigar
Is determined by the color Of the wrap
per. Itwould be hard for any smoker
TO give reasons for these beliefs, unless
he should say that they are founded on
universal experience. But every smok-
er has them mlre or less
Smokers have their peculiErIties, too.
Every man has his own way OF cutting
ot the end of cigar, OF striking u
match. OF knocking of the ashes, and
Of holding the cigar between his fingers
and in his mouth Some men smoke in
the left side OF the mouth, and other
men in the night. There are few men
who hold a cigar at right angles TO
their noses Some men have au idea
that their mustaches grow less strongly
on the side where the cigar Is held
These men say the cigar often burns
The ends Of the mustache and keeps II
shorter where the cigar Is held.
Some men always bite the end of a
cigar. Ii will be noticed that few men
bite the end with the same teeth Some
men use the front teeth and other men
the iucisOrs. If the man gets into the
habit OF biting the cigar with his left
rucIsOTs, he IS not likely TO change 10 the
rIEut any more than he would feel COM
turtIb,e with the cigar held in a differ
=nt corner Of the mouth from its accus-
TONED place. Then there are men who
break the end of the cigar between their
teeth aud finish II by pInchIng II between
the tip OF their thumb and fOrelnger.
Different from these are the msl who
use cutters. which they carry on their
watch chains, or with their knives.
some men take out their penknives aud
.IreCuliy cut the end of a cigar, moist
suiug the loose wrapper and smoothing
Il with their foreduEer.
IL VIII be a long time before the ma
.orIty Of smokers Judge of the strength
d a cigar not 10y the wrapper, but by
the kind OF tobacco that is inside the
wrapper. Most smokers know that
clayu Is the mildest grale Of a cigar.
Colorado claro is the next, then Colo
rLlo maduro, then Colorado medium,
and maIurO strongest But they do
not think that the wrapper forms but a
small part of the bulk of cigar, and
that Its strength or mildneSS is deter
mined by the HilsT AMI not by the wrap
per. y smoker VINO wants a mild cigar
Will not take one with dark wrapper,
though the filler and binder may be mid.
lie cannot see the filler and binder
without digging in the end of it or tax
ing off part OF the wrapper only.
Different manufacturers grade their
cigars differently. Some manufacture
erS' colorado claTo Is as mild as other
manufacturers claro- Americans run
To light cigars. and the importers cater
to this demand Mos grades OF Gig grs
ara either colorado claro or 0OlOrdlu
judging from the marks on boxes
IN New York cigar store.
There is a common belief that i'm
ported cigars ara better than domestic
cigars, even at the same price. 1t Is
hard TO get a good imported cigar
cheaper than 50 or flO hundred. An
excellent domestic cigar can be bought
for that price The tobacco for cigars
can be imported and the cigars made in
this country cheaper than the imported
cigars can be sold here The duty on
imported cigars is propOrtiOnately high
er than the duty on imported tobacco.
Tuero are as skilled cIgarmakers here as
in Cuba, though they do not work exact
" the same way. Us Ially AN American
made cigar l. firmer and has a better
finish than an imported cigar of the
same price.
Cigars have 4 nomenclature Of the T
oW which few smokers pick mp. y
man who buys his cigars by the box
acquires a more extensive knowledge
about them than the man who buys the
cigars that he smokes two OF three
at a time. Cigars are II mel according
TO their strength or mlIdneSs, their
shape aud the factory. There
are five degrees of strength II
marked on the boxes in the or
dIuAry course of trade, though
an exert can tell different grades be-
tween them This is beyond the neceS-
stiles Of a man who only smokes cigars
ami does not deal in them. Then there
are the various terms used to describe
the shape of a cigar. COqueta Is one
Of the smallest cigars, cOncha medium
aud perfecto large. Figaro IS shape
between cOqueta anl cOncha- lnyen-
chile is perhaps the Target of all, though
perrecto cigars are IN Ide that have as
much tobacco as iuvrncIble-
The invencible are the largest, some
Of them being seven inches long. The
panatella shape Is well known Ii Is
about two-thirds as long a. i lead PEN
ell. with almost the same diameter
throughout. The perfectO Is fairly
long, big BELLE I, and usually dark in
co,ur. The iuvencible Is the longest
smoke. Besi les these ere are mum
bers OF other names corresponding TO
their shapes, but these are the ordinary
ones fcunI IN imported cigars DomeS-
tic cigar manufacturers do not pay 50
much attention TO naming the cigars
accurately by their shapes, and their
customers do not pick up the knowl-
edge of them from the boxes. Domes-
tic cigars have not as many marks on
the boxes describing the cigar IS the
imported ones have
imported cigars can be told by the
green import stamp on the box 1nere
Is a pen tlty against using a cigar ooN
twice, AMI particularly against putting
cigars i'm an imported cigar box, but The
only WAY to make sure the cigars are
imported Is To see that the import
stamp has not yet been broken some
unscrupulous cigar dealers put domeSt c
cigars in the imported cigar boxes One
way To discover this is 20 notice whether
the cigars Just lit the box IT Is not
easy T. put one cigar into another box
and make it fit exactly Besides this,
these INSCRIPTIONS cigar dealers
90 II fairly understand the marks.
and they put the colorado madura
cig.s i'm a box that is marked colorado
cIarn. Almost every man can tell the
diffe.ence in color between the two
The name of the factory Is further
affective besides the name
of the shape and the name Of the
VI tA0 ;,s.apaa IN Harry CLAW