The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-06-04

, smoker"
i Find out what variety thrivel
best, cures best, on your soil, and
then stick to it.
ga pipe in the mouth is worth
two in the shop"
Tobacco seeds have been known
} to retain their vitality for fifteen
years.
u Isaac Newton lost his sweetheart
through his Observation-Disclosures in
using his fingers as a tobacco-stop-
per.
| It is said that several of the Kew
West cigar factories will move to
the main land this summer.
/ Leopold Morse, the ex-Congress-
man. uses a round dozen, and Gen.
Butler has cigar in his mouth con-
tinually, but never lights it.
Anything tending toward the i'm
provement of the tobacco crop, either
by the cultivation or curing processes
is of particular interest just now.
We have a newspaper recently
started here named the Port Tampa
City Mail, removed here from Peters
burg.
Prescott was very fond Of smok-
ing. 1t injured his health, however,
and when his physician limited him
to one cigar o day he ran all over
Paris to buy the biggest one he
could find.
A cigar is seldom unpleasant to a
young lady when the mouth that
holds it belongs to handsome man.
There is a bit of second hand
wisdom in this somewhere.)
There are nineteen associations in
Switzerland having for their sole
object the collection of cigar ends.
The "toppers" are sold in bulk, the
proceeds being applied to purposes of
charity.
1t is not generally known that all
kinds of tobacco contains bacteria,
which gives it an aroma and flavor.
By inoculating a poor brand with
the bacteria of better sort good
tobacco is frequently assured.
At the beginning of the seven
teenth century tobacco was sold
within theatres for the accommoda-
ton of the audience. People smoked
everywhere within a playhouse. A
section, usually fast youths, paid for
the privilege of sitting on the stage,
where they used to smoke.
The Alaska Indians believe that
mist is produced by the smoking of
tobacco by the man in the moon.
To place your tobacco pouch at
the disposal of friend is in Iceland
considered the highest mark Of re-
spect. ,
The Duke of Fife is a very heavy
smoker. He occasionally puffs cigar.
cites and smokes cigars, but when
be wants to thoroughly enjoy himself
he fills "bull dog" briar with "Gold
Flake" and then blows cloud after
cloud like Thames steamboat.
The farmers in some of our tobacco
growing states will do we'll to stop
and reflect before deciding on the
number of acres they will plant this
year. If they 60 in for quantity
instead of quality, predict that
they will see next year the lowest
prices that have ever been quoted for
domestic tobacco.
1t is said that the word ''cigar''
comes from the old Spanish "cigar.
rail-" garden. In the sixteenth
century the "Dons" grew tobacco for
private consumption in their own
grounds, and the tobacco rolls re-
ceived their present appellative from
that circumstance.
Edward drew the delicate figure
of the graceful girl to his manly
bosom. AS he did so a crisp. crack
ling sound was heard. "Ah. it's all
up with those Havanas in my vest
pocket" he exclaimed grimly, "but
darn the expense at moment like
this"
There have been some celebrated
smokers in the history of the world
true lovers of the grateful weed
and 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, General
Jackson held between his long, lean
fingers his tavorite reed-stem corn
cob pipe.
The North Carolina commissioner
Iof agriculture has notified the
Worlds Fair people that . tobacco