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Show FIRST SMOKED IN CNQLAND. Sir Walter Raleigh's Pipe on Exhibition Exhibi-tion at London. Americans In London have been flocking to the Shipping Exhibition In Whltcchapel to see a relic ot United States history which will be Interest Ing likewise to their countrymen at home Thli Is nothing less than tho pipe smoked by Sir Waltor Raleigh, which Is also, of courso, tho first ever Sir Walter Raleigh's Pips. smoked In tho country the famous courtier ot tueeii Elizabeth hnvlng Introduced tho "fragrant weed" Into England on his return from America. The plpo belongs to tho Prince ot Wales, who always has seen to Its being be-ing guarded most carefully, and never before allowed It to bo placed on exhibition. ex-hibition. Ho always has refused to permit the plpo to bo photographed, too, and the accompanying picture Is tho first of It that has over been obtained. |