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Show How Tobacco is Speckled. The prospective purchaser of a box of cigars complained to the Broadway tobacconist to-bacconist that they lacked the little specks which are supposed to indicate a cigar's excellence. "That notion Is pretty generally done away with," laughed the dealer. "A few years ago the demand for 'speckled' cigars ci-gars became so great that sonic manufacturers manu-facturers sprinkled acid on them to get the desired effect Few took the trouble trou-ble to explain Just how the specks were naturally caused. As an indication of quality of a cigar, the specks are Just about as valuable as freckles on a mnn's nose aro an indication of his character and ability. "In warm climates say ln Cuba a sudden shower comes uo. Thcro is a heavy downpour of rain and a few minutes later the sun is shining fiercely fierce-ly again. The tobacco plants are dotted with big raindrops, some large as pearls. Theso drops become burning glasses ln the sunlight The same as real lenses, they concentrate the sun's heat and on the leaf beneath them the littlo specks that you venerate are burned." Now York Press. |