The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-08-09
LOTS OF MONEY FLUNG AWAY.

trlvance under its tracks to prevent the
dripping down on the bridge of any
water from the engines overhead. The
wood is sheathed with zinc and has
low sides raised above it so that 1t
forms "a huge shallow bog. It scarcely
seems credible. but, since smoking
cars were put on the railway, this box
became all but filled with the ends of
cigars and cigarettes every few days.
1t is beside a flight of stairs leading
down from the railway platform. To
find that each man carries his cigar to
that point and then filings it into the
receptacle shows how strongly the
smoking habit influences men, for that
box is at the very last point to which a
smoker can carry lighted weed. 1t Is
precisely midway between the elevated
car platform and the bridge car sta
ton, In which smoking Is not allowed.
Those who glance at the great box
of cigar and cigarette ends as they pass
to the bridge cars couldn't help MOTTO
ing one other remarkable thing, and
that Is that smoking is a habit that
cries for the application of nineteenth
century ingenuity to make it less
wasteful. The sight of that heap Of
smokers debris shows that great re-
form is needed and must eventually
come, for men cannot forever afford or
remain content with methods so UNI
economical as those which now govern
smoking. The cigar ends vary in
length between a third and half the
original Size of the weed The cigar
etc stumps are also but two-thirds
smoked up Surprising that the great
majority of the cigars smoked on the
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not cost less-then each relic in that
great heap of bushels of butts repre-
sents a cent or two cents or more The
remains Of the ten-eent cigars. which
are numbered by the thousand. repre-
sent an average Of more than three
cents each Hundreds Of dollars Of
wasted money, of money flung away u
the shape Of tobacco bought and paid
for but not used or yielding any benefit
to the smoker. are In that great drip
box collection. which Is swept eway
and renewed every little while the year
ventor must yet enrich himself by dis
covering way TO prevent this waste
and save it to the smokers The man
factuFers do not care whether 1t Is
saved or not, but the smokers will hail
with delight the appearance of some
device by which they can get their
moneys worth of smoke instead Of only
sixty per cent. of it. To finish g
cigar with wooden OF metal butt
would not do. because that would sim
ply create a cigar holder in new form,
and cigar holders have never been pop
ular. They have been found to alter
the taste Of cigar when first used,
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they lend to the first Whit of a new
cigar the ranl1ness of bad pipe; For
another reason no device Of the sort
will do, and that is that men like to
feel the soft and yielding roll Of tobac-
co In their mouths, aud they would
stop smoking altogether before they
would continue it. If their teeth met q
hard wooden or metal cigar tip. Per
haps butt of some very Inexpensive
leaf, like cabbage, could be joined to
the bulk of a fine Havana cigar-but
that is for the inventor to look into.
To return to the Brooklyn bridge,
the smokers have to throw away their
tobacco as they approach that struct-
ure. but 1t Is noticed that no sooner do
they reach New York and leave the
bridge cars than they begin to smoke
again. A constant fusilade of swapping
matches is heard in the open iron nav
of the bridge at the New York end, and
there, instead Of cigar ends. match
sticks by the million are swept up and
carted away every now and them.
Y. Sun.
OF GENERAL INTEREST,".
The photograph of Mr. Koelt1ow,
of Berlin, Is said to be very much SIM
pier than the Edison photograph, and
quite as good.
Norway is to adopt uniform time
for the whole of that country from
January ! next. The mean time will
be that at the meridian fifteen degrees
east of Greenwich. At present nearly
every locality in Norway has its own
local time.
Russian punishments comprise COM
pulsory labor in the Siberian mines for
life OF foT term of years, compulsory
la Dor in fortresses or in factories, the
loss of rank, personal rights and priv
leges and deportation to Siberia or
elsewhere as colonists-
Those who have tried the expert
ment affirm that large sponge hung
In the room. If it can be behind con-
venient screen and kept constantly
wet, will greatly assist in keeping the
room cold; or cloth hung In the win
dow over the blind will cool the room
as If a shower had fallen.
1T is stated that it has been decided
to use petroleum instead Of coal for the
firing of the locomotives OF the Riga
railway, In Russia and that petroleum
reservoirs are to be established for this
purpose at Reval. Wesenburg. Narwa,
Gatschina and St. Petersburg, capable
of containing collectively one million
pools of petroleum. It is also stated
that petroleum Is to be adopted on the
Dwinsk-Riga railway, but this cannot
take place for some time TO come, mas
much as the coal contracts for the next
five years are already arranged.
-Schumann was emotional 10 a pain
fu1 degree As child he was once
known to rise from his bed In dream,
go to the piano and play, weeping Bit
terly the whole time His musical com
positions give evidence OF his over
strung nerves. He was made unhappy
all his life by self-induced misfor-
tune. Anxious to attain the highest
possible technical skill, he invented
an appliance to hold back the
third finger of the right hand, with
the result that the tendons were over
strained. and his hand was ruined for
piano work. This accident caused him
to turn his attention to composition,
and led to his wonderful plano produc-
tions.
He Had Preference.-McEll-
suppose If give You this nickel you
will go right over 10 Mulgrew's saloon
and spend it for beer O'Rafferty-