Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-02-27

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dicates that the pipe has had its day and is
now saturated with tobacco juice, and that it
| must be replaced by another one or passed
through the fire to purify it, as is done in the
coffee houses of Holland. Every old pipe,
Drowned with long use, leaves on the lips and
| tongue an acrid and strong liquid,
| which irritates the tissue and corrodes the
mucous secretions. When it has reached this
condition the finest meerschaum is no better
than the Irishman's dudeen. Turkish and
East indian pipes, discharging its smoke
| the poisonous ingredients The bowl of the
| German pipe retains the greater part of the oily
products; the Dutch and English clay pipes re-
tain less The metallic pipes of Thibet, becom-
| ing heated, carry to the mouth acrid nicotine
| but also q smoke hot enough to burn the
| tongue.
THE BRIAR WOOD THE BEST.
The briar-wood pipe, with good, clean cut
| tobacco, furnishes one of the best smokes in the
world. Whether it is q costly carved meer-
schaum, whose rich color gladdens the owner
heart or lowly corn cob, so that it is mellowed
| with that fine quality known as sweetness, it
has charm dear to all lovers of the fragrant
weed.
A good pipe is a good friend, and whether
atioat or Shore as you take it up and carefully
| I'LL 1t for a smoke you are reminded of all the
| hard rubs it has helped you over and the plea
SAINT "reminiscences it has shared with you A
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| full and sympathetic.
1t Is not generally known that the word cutty
| as apphed to species of clay pipe very much
used, Is a corruption of Kutaich q city in Asia
MINOR, where species of soft white stone is
| found, which is exported by the Turks to Ger
many Tor the manufacture of tobacco pipes
From pipes we pass for a moment to cigars
ana, We venture the assertion. that not one
cigar smoker out of 100 is judge OF the mate
RAJ ne uses. FOLLOW the rules, as given below,
.he results OF experience by one expert in hand
ling the finest OF tobacco, and the complaints
over poor cigars will be much less frequent.
Never buy cheap cigars, there is no economy
in 1t. Ii you can't afford good cigars smoke less
and enjoy your smoke. You cannot tell whether
| cigar Is good or not unless you light it prop
eriy. II your cigar goes out be sure to blow
through 1t as soon as possible SO that when you
light 1t there will be no dead smoke in it.
Leave the ashes on your cigar until they fall
of. Your cigar will burn straighter and taste
sweeter if you don't knock the ashes off,
Never smoke in the morning or on an empty
stomach. The best time to smoke is after din
ner-say to Z o'clock-and smoke straight
ahead until bed time Tobacco will never hurt
the most nervous organization if this be fol-
lowed out
Lastly, never give anybody light from your
cigar. Carry matches.
SOME CELEBRATED SMOKERS.
There have been some celebrated smokers in
the history of the world-true lovers Of the
grateful woodland Old Hickory was one of
them. He cared little for cigars, but his corn
cob pipes were scattered from one end Of the
White House to the other, and when giving
audience to the Russian ambassador Gen. Jack,
son held between his long. lean fingers his
favorlte reed stem corn-cob pipe. Gen
Grant when in his prime smoked fifteen cigars
day. Leopold Morse, the ex-Congressman,
uses round dozen, and Gen. Butler has a
cigar in his mouth continually, but never lights
1t. Vice President Colfax limited himself to
fifteen cigars per day. DAVID Davis and Sena-
tor kenna smoked continually. Senator Con-
ger allows himself three cigars daily and Allison
loves fragrant Havana. The Prince of Wales
smokes a cigar manufactured specially for him
by Cuban firm. The tobacco is the finest
known IN the trade, and cigar when rolled
and finished, and packed in highly polished
boxes bearing Wales "Three Feathers"
represents exactly four English shillings each.
The venerable Gladstone smokes pipe SO does
Booth, Tennyson, Thackeray and BuIwer.
Charles Lamb is said to have used very poor
tobacco, and Isaac Newton lost his sweetheart
through his absent mindedness in using his
fingers as a tobacco stopper. Pope, Swift,
Bolingbroke and Congreve were addicted to
snuff, and friedrich the Great had a snuff
pocket made in his vest to satisfy his cravings.
Nelson Decatur and Farragut ali took a pull at
the pipe and were fond of the weed, as is
Admiral Walker of the white squadron. Glib
bon, the historian, was a confirmed snuff
taker, and Byron sang the praises of tobacco.
Milton, Locke Raleigh, Izaak Walton, Addi-
son, Steele, Robert Burns and Walter Scott all
used tobacco, and Prescott was very fond of
smoking. 1t injured his health, however. and
when his physician limited him to one cigar
day he ran all over Paris to buy the biggest
one he could find.
NAPOLEON COULDN'T SMOKE.
The Emperor Napoleon could never smoke,
although when in Egypt he several times at
tempted to do so in order to please the people.
On one occasion, when the Persian ambassador
presented ia him, on behalf of the shah, a very
valuable and gorgeous pipe, thickly encrusted
with diamonds and rubies. Napoleons attend
ant filed the pipe and a light was applied, but
in the way the emperor went to work no smoke
would have appeared had he held the stem the
balance of his reign. He merely opened and
shut his lips In the energetic manner Of a me-
chanical figure. The observan and grave at
tendant showed him the correct manner in
which to manage the beautiful pipe But the
emperor was unable to manage it, until,
tired and vexed with repeated fail
ures, he at last desisted saying: "Con-
slant, do you light the pipe. l cannot" This
was done and the pipe was returned to him
with the tobacco burning at a furious rate and
a tremendous amount Of smoke. Soon yelled
in smoke the unfortunate Napoleon again
in difficulty; the smoke, which he did not know
how to get rid of, went down his throat and up
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regained his breath he gasped the words
Take it away! What an infection! What
pigs they must be who smoke! am so ill.,"
And i'll he was for some considerable time, and
renowned for evermore the soothing weed.
Pipes have played an important part in
French society ever since Moot, the French
ambassador at Lisbon, brought back to France
a large quantity of tobacco and choice assort-
ment of pipes. Wooden pipes have long since
been extensively manufac tured in France where
their fine qualities naturally gained for them
liberal patronage among sportsmen, travellers
and others, but until few years ago the pipes
en- bois'' were usually made of pear tree of box
wood or of ebony. Some observing person
| discovered that the peasants of the Pyrenees
were in the habit of smoking short pipes of
'racine de bruyere," which they gathered and
carved for themselves. These Pyrenean pipes
became the vogue In Paris and a mandatory
| of briar wood was started in the French capt.
| tai So long since 1871 thousands upon
thousands of wooden pipes the bowls Of which
| we're carved into the simlitude of the heads Of
| Theirs and Gambetta, were sold in France, the
| root being broug hit from the departments of the
| Pyrcnees, the Var, the Correze and from Italy.
| The advantages of the racine de bruyere" are
| obvious. 1t is the only wood which does not
become calcined by contact with burning
| tobacco.
| TOBACCO sERvICEABLE IN WARFARE.
| 1t was u French general who first found out
that tobacco might prove eminently service
able in warfare, inasmuch as it Immediately
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