| Show TOBACCO IN FRANCE alio most villainous weed to be found in the world on the different kinds of coin use in the various countries of the world mr pritchett in his recent paper on says nothing from what we may term the smokers point of view he offers us abundance says the chicago evening journal but we have hardly any information about their probable or customary contents the chinese we retold smoke opium a practice mr pritchett does not think injurious to them in health the inhabitants of zanzibar smoke wild hemp or bhang with these exceptions to which soine others might aavo been added the tobacco leaf is the thing smoked there are many varieties of it and we have a brief account of them with their distribution trib ution and their botanical names and with some pictures of the growing plant but beyond this mr pritchett docs not attempt to go he writer of dutch and german smokers and ho has a word on french pipes but what kind of stuff these people burn in their pipes is hinted at the english traveler on the continent will soon gain the information for himself go where he may bo will find it simply impossible to obtain what he will dignify with the name of tobacco the german and dutch forms are better than the italian and the french but we can say no more than this for them franco wo are inclined to put as the lowest among civilized tobacco colsum ing countries the hand of the government makes itself felt all through the three kindi of foreign tobacco which anro admitted into franco are purchased on government account and they are about equally bad the native grown tobacco is wholly wanting in fragrance strong or as wo term it very rank care is further taken that noone with capital at command shall be alf acred to open a tobacco shop the whole scheme works out as we might expect there is small chance anywhere and only between bad and worse it would perhaps do something to reconcile the english workingman working man to his lot in life it he had the moans ol 01 comparing his position with that of his fellow in fenee 10 englishman ha not only higher wages and shorter houff of work but ho can also purchase at an bunco a kind of tobacco by no means of the highest quality bill nevertheless far superior to any which either a 1 workman or a franch millionaire c n hope for in his own country wo do not know what value our working classes soi on a common privilege which come to them as abac of bourd but we bc licko there A donld bo a rebellion tomorrow to morrow if it acro ukon away aal they were compelled tj caporal cap cral nor should we aaro to say that it had not been aban bantly provoked |
