Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-11-02
ALL ABOUT TOBACCO.
Interesting Statistics Concerning Its Gull
ration and ConaumnfiOn.

grown in Portugal in 1920.
The tobacco plant is member CT the
uightshade family.
About go, 600, 900 cigars are annually
exported from Havana.
Oculists say that one form of blind
ness is caused by smoking.
The tobacco leaf is said to require
about twelve weeks TO cure.
The value of the leaf tobacco ex-
ported to this country in 1890 was So
$4,000.
The ash of tobacco is large, varying
from 16 to 80 per cent. in the inherent
kinds
The color of snuff depends on the ex-
tent to which fermentation has been
allowed to go.
The French government has had a
monopoly of the tobacco business ever
since 1916.
The seed capsules of the tobacco
DIan+ are nrovided with valves for the |
escape of the seeds
Turkish and some other eastern to-
baccos are only used as ine-cut, 1or
cigarettes and pipes.
The poorer and cheaper varieties Oh
snuff are sometimes made from refuse
stems and leaves.
The flowers of some species OF the To-
bacco plant open only at sunset anu
close at sunrise
The clay pipes of England, France
and Holland are mostly made by the
labor of children.
Instances have been known OF lime
being added to snuff to increase its dry
ness and pungercy.
The annual consumption OF tobacco
in the United States is about 6O ounces
to each inhabitant.
Most of the Indian pipes of this coun.
try are made of the red steatlte, fouhd
in the northwest.
In 1916 Virginia cOlonists made q
law that no one should neglect 1000
crops in order to plant tobacco.
Nitrate of potash or soda is some
times added to smoking tobacco 10 III
crease the combustibility.
The tobacco from Manila is general
vused only in the kind of cigars prop
erly called cheroots.
OF late wears Florida tobacco has &C
ouired a reput1tion as an excellent va
riety for cigars.
Europe produces every year aoou
500, 900, 900 pounds, of which AusIr'
grows about one-third.
Many brands of smoking tobacc
have their odor increased by the auu
ton of cascarilla bark.
Some Syrian tobacco has so small
percentage of nicotia that this prime
pie can barely be detected.
Tobacco seeds are so minute that
is said a thimbleful will furnish enoug
plants for an acre of ground.
The quality of Cuban tobacco is
fine that Mulhall says it sells at prize
VARYING from g2OO to $500 ton.
Since the Franco-Prussian war Il
use of tobacco has increased in Fran
to an extent never before known
Dry snuffs are prepared from tOoac
that has been subjected to high tel
perature before the leaf is ground.
France imports from the Unit
States nearly one-half of the tobac
manufactured in the government II
tories.
The choicest varieties of tobacco q
raised along the banks of such Cub
rivers as overflow every year.
According to internal revenue
Turns. the number of cigarettes ma
in this country in 1s9O-91 was 2,s'
799, 44O.
In 1892 New York was the best
bacco revenue state, paying S5,374,
into the national treasury on this sec
The tobacco supplied by the Free
Government factories to the consuH
is said to be the worst in the civil
world.
Oil of bergamot and altar of 70
topether with orris root and rOsewC
are all used to flavor snuff and ch
ing tobacco.
THE medieval use of tobacco is
most wholly for external applicat
the nausea it causes preventing its
ternal employment.
Every man who smokes or oh
helps to support the government.
1892 the government revenues from
bacco were S31, OO0,O77.
The people of Great Britain cons
less tobacco per head than those OF
ether civilized country, only % on
to the inhabitant.
Since 1865 the government has
Iected in revenue on tobacco the
nendous sum of $500. 512, S67. The
. year was 1882, S47,391,9s
The Mohammedan world was
divided on the subject of smol
Some theologians declared smokl
he worse than murder.
The valley of the Connecticut
,-oduees a tobacco leaf so fine
rill,v that it is often exported to
I'D other countries to use as
per. r.,
stanley found tobacco perfectI
.climated among African tribes
had never seen a white man. III
IF the weed is universal in the
continent
Tobacco has the power OF rel
the muscular system to a marke
gree, and advantage has been tai
this property, both in medlein
surgery.
The adulteration of tobacco
nse of other leaves can always
.tected by the microscope, as in
-ture. the tobacco leaf varies mate
from all others.
THE hookah, or oriental STATE
;s deemed of such Importance
the courts of princes special fur
apv has no other duty than to \
in order.
Tobacco stems were long cons
almost a waste product, but wi
be utilized in ways other th'
fumigating green houses and t'
sheep-wash-
The dried leaf has little OF the
Of the manufactured tobacco.
developed by kind of fermenta