Show AN ENGINEER employed on some of the public works at Szegedin Hungary bought four cigars one day not long ago and began to smoke He had finished one and laid another half smoked upon his writing table when suddenly it exploded ex-ploded throwing him from his chair and wounding his cheek ears lips and left hand Investigation showed that the cigar had contained a glass tube filled with nitroglycerine nitroglycer-ine The fact that tobacco is a monopoly manufactured and sold only by dealers licensed by the government gov-ernment makes the mystery deeper If the officers cigar had been in his mouth when it exploded ex-ploded he would doubtless have been killed a circumstance which does not add to the pleasure of smoking in Szegedin |