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Show cigurn mr tne npnniiie. The time has come for the summer resort re-sort joke and summer resort gossip, so the following experience of a Washing-I Washing-I ton drnggist may be considered seasonable. season-able. He aaid he had been going to the seashore every summer, and had fallen into the habit of taking with him a box of the best cigars that his case in the store afforded, being a moderate smoker, with a taste for a good weed. But up to a certain time he found it difficult to obtain any enjoyment ont of his costly tobacco, finding that as soon as he got near the air of the ocean the cigars began be-gan to droop and wilt, as the smoker's phrase goes, and their draught became difficult, and the process of pulling them became an altogether tedious operation. One day he was smoking on9 of them with a good doal of difficulty on a chair on the beach when a gentleman sitting near accosted him, saying that he had noticed the trouble he was having with his cigars, and tbat they were probably of an imported brand. To this the druggist drug-gist assented, and the other, pulling a couple of cigars from his pocket, handed them to tho rather astonished smoker with the remark that he thought they would go better. So the druggist lit one of them, and in a minute was enjoying one of the most delightful smokes he had had since ho left home. The cigar drew finely and did not wilt as the others had done. He asked his new friend why it was, and was told that it seemed imported cigars ci-gars are so affected by the salt air as to lose their shape and their drawing qualities, qual-ities, while cheap cigars or "two-fers,7 as they are called, seem to be at their best in such an atmosphere, absorbing just enough of the salt air to take on a delicious flavor. Thenceforth the druggist drug-gist saved money by smoking nothing but cheap cigars while he was at tho seashore, and every time he saw a man trying to smoke a good cigar with the same luck which he had encountered he played the "good Samaritan" and offered him a bad one, together with the advice to smoke none other within reach of the air from the sea. He also found that when he returned to town the good cigars ci-gars would regain their shape and quality qual-ity and were as enjoyable as ever, while the others were as detestable as he had always found them be. Washington j Star. I |