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Manawatu Herald, 14 June 1898, Page 4

.:. ■ i A BRIEF HISTORY OF TOBACCO. _Ti:s- Cultivated In Europe as an Ornamental Plant. The name tobacco is thought by some to h-. -. been taken from Tobacco, a province of Vucr.t_n, by othors from Tobago, an isi ::1 in tho Can bboan sea, and by still ot; f: - from Tobasco, in the gulf of Florid; . r l.'ho"i<ln,nt, although it is assorted that tho Chineso hay% used it from earliest. time. , was not introduced into Europe until . i.or tho discovery of America by Columbus, lie firsfc found it in uso on the island of .Si'.n Domingo in the West Indies. [ Tho Indian, among all the trttoos from Poru to upper Canada, smoked it in pipes. Tlio eecd of tho plant was first introduced in Kuropo by Gonzalo Hernandez do Ovicdo, who took ifc to Spain and cultivated ib for ()■ namental purposes, but its nar- / cotio qualities -vvere shortly afterward discovered, ami the practice of smoking it soon became general, aiid its manufacture Into snuff followed in course of time. It ■was introduced in Italy and France in 1660 . and was brought into the latter country by f Jean Nicol, tho French embassador to Portugal, in whose honor it received its botanical name, nicotiana, whence the name nicotine. Tho plant was introduced into England by Sir Walter Raleigh. It was along in tlio .seventeenth centuiy before it was known to bo used in Asia, but the oriental nations afc tho present time are probably tho greatest smokers in the .world, accordj ing to Thorno. Leprosy In tho Middle Ages. In the middle ages leprosy extended over the wholo of Europe. Nearly every city in England, Franco and Germany had ita hospital for such cases, and Italy suffered terribly from the disease. The maximum was reached in 1300, when thero were 19,---000 leper houses in Europe. Tho patients i were excomitmnicated by papal "bulls." V '.ijlxcy wero cut off as "unclean" from infl ivii.ourso of all sorts, and only in this way fl vr. :.*. tho plaguo gradually suppressed. It ■ ti: ..pneared as an opidemic in Europe in »tuo sixteenth century. A writer in tha H K'.w York Times ?ays: It is still found eyH crv/, -here in tho orient, particularly among H the fellahs of Egypt and India, in China fl and .Japan, in all the coast lands of Africa, op. .Madagascar, Mauritius, St. Helena and ■ Madeira, in Mexico and Central and South H America. Such sufierers are found in Eu- ■ r.H>:j at present, as, for example, in Norway, Hj .: -here there were 1,600 lepers in 1880 out ■of a population of 1,850,000, though thia ■ v/;-, . a decrease from 2,280 in 186-1. Thoy al_o found on the Greek islands of and Crete nnd to a less degree in France, Spain, Portugal and the Ri; ...-.ian provinces, and singlo cases are ' -:o occasionally found in middle Europe. >,'_ture Not Always tlio Best Planter. .Al. hough not geuerally recognized in oi. nieal -aud horticultural works, Mee-■L.-::frf Monthly says it is simply a fact that ■ u.e do« uot always placo plants in the 11! ies best suited to their development. nip trees, for instance — laces which j^K- '■■',- partly in wator — grow a great deal i r, more vigorously and every way ap- - I: .niy moro happily when they can find .n_elve_ iv dry ground, for specimens j HHoi' maple. , "willows, sweet gums and other j P j ed swamp trees are always found in i dry ground. Whatisknown iii') Bermuda lily ia another case in . This is a native of Japan, really •: m lomdilorum, but nowhere does it in such luxuriance as in the islands ! E. ■■ -muda, where ifc was accidentally in--ed or escaped from cultivation a e _ : ; m....;.- years ago. So great is its luxil at ifc has been recognized as a fc v ...'ioty from the Japan plant and Hs i;r "/.vn in cultivation a3 Lilium har_.avi; v; been first made known to cul- _...;. ..'.fc 10 ycurs ago. Many other might bo given to show that _ do. . not always arrange that plants naLurally be found in places the si; it:.;, to their growth. Is 7.i ulay X_ucl_y or Unlucky? Tiu roar.- persons who believe that death di.;astvi stalk abroad on Friday, and have auy number of facts at hand to their position. Well, here is an arj^Bay of data gathered by an exchange from Inch almost anything pro and con may proved: Leo surrendered on Friday, was burned on Friday, Washingwas born on Friday, Shakespeare was j^Horn on Friday, America was discovered Friday, Richmond was evacuated on tlio Bastille was destroyed on Frlthe Mayflower was landed on Friday, Viotoria was married on Friday, Charles I was beheaded on Friday, j^H! orb Smnter was bombarded on Friday, Icon Bonaparte was born on Friday, Caesar was assassinated on Friday, battle of Marengo was fought on Frithe battlo of Waterloo was fought on l^flriday, Joan of Arc was burned at the on Friday, the battle of New Orleans fought on Friday, the battle of Bunker fought on Friday, the Declaration |^fl Independence was signed on Friday. Song Birds at Table. I^HThe wealthy gormands of Borne ohera strong partiality for song birds. Horaco and Martial refer with apjj^Hoval to roast thrush, and Ovid recom"a crown of thrushes" as a lover's to his mistress. Thrushes' breasts one of the ingredients of the celeted Apician dish (''Patina apiciana"), also included mushrooms, sow's flsh and chickens, rivaling the he te- j j^H&'eueous contents of a gypsy's ''pot au " Horace relates that the sons of Acrlto stimulate their appetite for dinner, on ''nightingales of monstrous : ' ' and Varro tells us of the aviary Lucullus, which was also a "salle a ger, ' ' so that the epicure gratified his and his palate simultaneously, feast-H^BpiiWa-tfee delicate warblers whose cony, unconscious of their coming doom, B^Bi c discoursing meanwhile the most exmusic. Fragrant Flowers. . the i, 200 kinds of ilowers growing in j I^Hiropc ouly 420 are odoriferous. Less than of the whito kinds, which num1, 191, are fragrant, 77 of the 951 yellow I , S4 of the 833 red kinds, 31 of the 59. lands, Ul of the 808 violet blue kinds H^Hd . s of the 240 kinds with combined >.'.-. Koyal Longevity. |^^H_Hd<-st> oP European sovereigns is the i-ow in his eighty-fourth year. The j^^Hig^.L T ".mark is 75; Queen Victoria, 1 vi • I. if a dozen or more other are over 70 and nearly a v-iio -ire between 60 and 70.