EXPENSIVE SMOKING.

Dunstan Times, Issue 781, 6 April 1877, Page 4

EXPENSIVE SMOKING.

The days in which men used to light their pipes with bank notes are not over, it appears. Our Hamilton contemporary says that the otVr dav one of the railway navvies visited the Prince of Wales billiard-room, and became indignant because none of the parties present would partake of a “ shout,” which he offered to pay for He declared he must get rid of his money some way or other, and proceeded to light his pipe with a L] nnte. But the pipe wouldn’t draw, and when the first note was consumed he lighted another, which, like the first, he burned almost entirely away After a little chaff as to the length of time he would keep up that game, the navvy brought out three move notes, and destroyed them in lighting his pipe. Either the tobacco then became properly ignited, or the man had no more money, for the sacrifice ended there. The fragments of notes left were then picked up by Schultz, the owner of the table, but it was found that the corners which remained of the bank’s promise to pay were not negotiable, the numbers being gone. It was an expensive smoke, but it probably kept the man out of the hospital, whither he would most likly have gone if he had spent the money in drink.—Keroit Express.