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Show cigars ana Their trices. Perhaps some smokers do not believa it, but prices for precisely the same kind of cigars vary widely. The writer knows of one place where a cigar is sold for 35 cents, while the same cigar may be bought not far away for 25 cents. The man who sells the 35 cent cigar would not believe this statement until he was convinced at the cost of a box of cigars. He bet that the cigar in question ques-tion could not be obtained for 25 cents at retail The other man led him around the corner to a rival and proved that it-could it-could be bought for just that amount The winner of the bet was maliciously jocose, too, for he proposed that the loser buy the cigars in the rival shop, Eince they would cost him so much more in his own store. He came near having a fit at that New York Tribune. |