NO CABBAGE LEAF CIGARS.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 364, 30 April 1903, Page 3

NO CABBAGE LEAF CIGARS.

MlatmScttn Imprtiiinn Yffifet mtafr Peopl* Oct from »!»• Hum'Oß*' "* bua FviUlieottoMc.

"I believe," said a Chicago cigar dealer recently, repejrt's the Tribune, ''that there are actually many people who think that; cabbage leaves /play an. jm- ~'■'.,' portant part in the manufacture olall brands of cigars. I suppose therget . their ideas from the comic papers ; :and ' the newspaper paragraphs of elighter vein. .' : •; ■•"'-.;.• . "What, has been, one of the most venerable jokes .at preaent known to man has- by long use oome to cepted by many as sober truth. I don't say for a moment that thexe.are not . v mai\y v of the cheap grades, of cigars ._'.,-' whi.c.bcpntain many thingsbesides leaf tobacco, but nobody would bother.- ' : about putting cabbage leaves in cigars-,.. •':•-; for the simple reason that these Leafeft'. , are so thiok-veined and peculiarly shaped tha;. ; they..would, not roil, -up: . with the tobacco leaf, and if they'did; • would make lumps on the cigar like the humps on a.camel. . "A cabbage is a.-vile smelting thing, when it is dried and burned, -and t.bo smoker of the vilest cigars' would"•fcdriifrom it in'scorn. It is because of Aha ■ -'■' ' Villain<Mis smell-ofburning cabbtigJV ■s■'. --'" -Suppose, that people first ' /- sociaLing-it with cheap; cigars of ar iouff* - •and strenuous .odor. That-is-abowyli;*,-, " only resemblance between-thelw-o. ,--, "Mullen leaves^which we jjisedtf* and smoke when we wet* boyr. :'.;'•:*. much-more suitable- for the'nbv-.;;: <:■£. poor cigars than-oabbago leaves..Lawft ihave no do.ubtihey.areoltop.usfcd.'-' THE DRAGON SCREEN. . ,W«iifierM Porcolaim, ShieXA *Ehfc*' •" • gulden-Truces of VaaOaltii!na»..f.« -'V. *Bne City of JPe!ctn». Very few people even in PokJTtg.aet&i to har-e-. heardvof it. For, of course, till lately none were allowed to drive along the .excellent carriage.-ro'-id-by .-the: lake' through the p,arklike i gror..-iWis interspersed- with rookeries, says the Xornhill. The screen-is perhs.ji,* SO feet high, and of porcelain thronghout, and on it in high relief a-Tow o* dragon? standing on their tails,- and possibly five feet high, old gold, dull red, cream, dark blue, then ov--r again, - the two dark •b-luas' cpnfron'tnng ■ Hsieh. other in the center. What was that screen- meant to shelter from the. world? Not behind it there is only a scene of frantic desolation of the moat complete vandalison—treeis hacked and broken, marble ..columns' cajsed to the. ground, images torn from their lotus seats -and,'cloven in- two.- . Here a broken head lying in the gras-s; thera a gilded band, and behind, a little,to the T;ight v . on an eminence, a tempi© like that, which crowns the hill at'th* Summer palace. Covered with a thousand images of Buddha outside, .all'of imperial yellow brilliantly;-sh'ihihgi"it T ~ caused the spectator to sigh, and think how exquisite must have been th« other destroyed building, since this required no protecting screen.. "I diO not deplore its -..destruction at all," said ft German Sinologue; "the Chinese must be humbled somehow. Best humbit them through th«ir palaces- and temSimilarity of Names. It appears that a consignment ©f "Wheeling'stogies" recently shipped to England was classified by the custom house officials as "leather manufactures," on the assumption that they i were boots for bicycling. Tim is equal, says the Pathfinder, to the Dutch pat"nt'offiee. an American machine for making ginger snaps un.ier "distilling and brewing," on the x> assumption' that "ginger snaps" fll son*© sort of "schnapps" todrink.-;tf.es-n.la.r T*l»o«jKht Fonaflry, , ■ ' 'A' building inaflGeorgiasettlemeßt displays this unique signi of learning.''Lesson's given ' writing and .nbTeltry.' Also :*3JX:%gaeh.ymusic to ybu, and and Iwopl; taken- for cash. Also, a'ji -tite•"■: winter season is "cofljiog ■i>m % stic%9ti4 ."';'- and kindling." ~-..j.. - .