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Manawatu Herald, 23 August 1898, Page 4

I A BRIEF HISTORY OF TOBACCO, rat Cultivated In Europe as an Ornamental Plant. The name tobacco is thought by somo to • ,vo been taken from Tobacco, a province Yucatan, by othurs from Tobago, an and in the Caribbean sea, and by still here from Tobasco, in the gulf of Flor au Tho plant, alMuui;> h it K? r \ ',-md t'.: « c Chinese have Uocu t6 i;^— . Cv-.*iO^i ncs, vras not introduced into Europe un- . after tho discovery of America by Cobmbu3. He first found it in use on the isIl&nd of Son Domingo in the West Indies. Bfhe Indian, among all the tribes from ■Peru to upper Canada, smoked it in pipes. 1! The seed of tho plant was first introH|uced in Europe by Gonzalo Hernandez de Klviedo, who took it to Spain and cultivatBa it; for ornamental purposes, but its nar■btic qualities wore shortly afterward dis■bveml, and the practice of smoking it ■xm became general, and ita manufacture Hpto snuff followed in course of time. It Kas introduced in Italy and France in 1560 Hud was brought into the latter country by Bean Nicot, thR French embassador toPorHugal, in whose honor it received its bofcanHal name, nicotiana, whence the name Hicotine. H The plant was introduced into England By Sir Walter Raleigh. It was along in Hpe seventeenth century before it was Hnown to be used in Asia, but the oriental Hations at the present time are probably Ke greatest smokers in the world, accordHag to Thome. IK Lfeprotsy In tbe Middle Ages. » In toe miaaio ages leprosy extended over IHic whole of Europe. Nearly every city in IHngland, Franco and • Germany had it» Hospital for such cases, and Italy suffered IHrribly from the disease. The maximum IHas reached in 1800, when there were 19,HpO leper houses in Europe. The patientfl [Here excommunicated by papal '"bulls.'' IHbey were cut off as ''unclean" from inIHrcourse of all sorts, and only in this way IHas tho plague gradually suppressed. It IHsappeored as an epidemic in Europe in ■Hie sixteenth century. A writer in th» Hew York Times «vye: It is still found cvIRywherein the orient, particularly among HL> fellahs of Egypt and India, in Chins |Hnd Japan, in all tho coast lands of Africa, IK Madagascai 1 , Mauritius, St. Helena and ■Hadeira, in Mexico and Central and South ■Hmcrica. Such sufferers are found in EuUpe at prosent, as, for example, in Norway, IHhere there woro 1,600 lepers in 1880 out ■Ha population of 1,850,000, though this UL a decrease from 2,280 in 1864. They IHe also found on the Greek islands of and Crete and to a less degree in ■Hal}', France, Spain, Portugal and the HKissian provinces, and single cases are H»o oocnsionallj- found in middle Europe. Nature Not Always the Best Planter. ■HAlthongh not generally recognized in IHtanical and horticultural works, MoeHn'fl Monthly says it is simply a faot that I^Ktrure does not always place plants In the jjHpalities best suited to their development. jl^wamp trees, for instance — taees which ■How partly in water^ — grow a great deal IHfcter, more vigorously and every way apllHrently moro happily when they can find HHmiselvps in dry ground, for specimens ■jHsTuiplra, willows, sweet gums and other ll^Bpposort. swamp trees aro always found in H^Knparatively dry ground. What is known 188 the Bermuda lily is another case in : DlHnt. This is a nativo of Japan, really fUftium longiflorum, but nowhere does it ' H)w in such luxurianco as mr the islands t [■■■Bermuda, where it was accidentally lnHl^Kduccd or escaped from cultivation a IHHttit many years ago. So great is its luxHHt an(:ft that it lias been recognized as a Jjlflßtinct variety from tho Japan plant and ll^Known in cultivation as Lilium harnl^Hi. haviugbeen first made known tocullUwtora uliout 10 years ago. Many other BHBistratious might be given to show that Hl^Eure docs not always arrange that plants H^Kuld naturally bo found in places the |HHt> suited to their growth. ll^U Is Vsiday Lucky or Unlucky? IHghere aro persons who believe that death ' IHK disaster stalk abroad on Friday, and IHH) have any number of facts at hand to < H^Bve theft: position. Well, here is an ar- ■ H^H of 'data gathered by an exchange from ■■■Kch almost anything pro and con may II^B proved: Leo surrendered on Friday, H^Koow was burned on Friday, Washing* InHf wa3 born on Friday, Shakespeare was l|Hn on Friday, America was discovered HH Friday, Kiohmond was evacuated on llHiiiiy, the Bastille was destroyed on Fri■HK, the Mayflower was landed on Friday, H^ften Victoria was married on Friday, Hl^ftg Charles I was beheaded on Friday, BHHt Sumter was bombarded on Friday, HHlfcoleon Bonaparte was born on Friday, U|Hr us eMar was assassinated on Friday, BIHf battle of Marengo was fought on Frl- j HHH tbe battle of Waterloo was fought on ] ■I^Bday, Joan of Arc was burned at the | ■■■Bee on Friday, the battle of New Orleans IIH§ fought on Friday, the battle of Bunker ■IHr wa6 fou^ ht on Friday, tho Declaration HHmdependenoe was signed on Friday. ■■HI Sons Birds at Table. HjHhe wealthy gormands of Rome «h«r> IHHd a strong partiality for song bizdf. HIHa Horace and Martial refer with epIHHral to roast thrush, and Ovid reoom- ' I^Hds "a crown of thrushes" as a lover's HlHßent to his mistress. Thrushes' breasts HHft one of the ingredients of the cele■l|Hed Apioian dish ('Patina apioiana" X ■HHsh also included mushrooms, sow's Hfc) fish and chickens, rivaling the heteIJlJ^Bneous contents of a gypsy's 'pot au HUB' Horaco relates that the sons of AeriIn^H/O Btlmulato their appetite for dinner, HMHhed on ''nightingales of monstrous BBHt," and Varro tells us of the aviary HHHrticullua, which was also a "salle a HlHber," so that the epicure gratified his HHHftnd his palate simultaneously, feastthe delicate warblers whose oonHl^Hxs, unconscious of their coming doom, HHH discoursing meanwhile the most erJHHHte music. j^»HH Frasrant Flowers. H^HH the 4,200 kinds of flowers growing tB HHHHbe only 420 are odoriferous. Less than HjHHkifth of the white kinds, which nunv HHH,I94, are fragrant, 77 of the 051 yellow HHSs, 84 of the BS3 red kinds, 81 of the 694 HHH kinds, 18 of the 808 violet blue kinds HWHHaS of the 240 kinds with combined HHHH Boyal longevity. HH^Hleat of European sovereigns Is (he HnHH now in his eighty-fourth year. The HJIHH °f Denmark is 75; Queen Viotaria, HIHH There are half a dozen or more other HHHeigns who are over 70 and nearly • HIHHi who aro between do and 70,