| Show TOBACCO IN FRANCE the most t weed to be found in the world on the different kinds of tobacco in use in tho various countries of the world mr in his recent paper on kiana says nothing from what we may term the smokers point of view he offers us pipes in abundance says the chicago evening journal but we have hardly any information about their probable or customary contents the chinese we are told smoke opium a practice which mr pritchett does not think injurious to them in health the inhabitants of zanzibar smoke wild hemp or bhang wibb these exceptions to which some others might have been added tha tobacco leaf is the thing smoked there are many varieties of it and we havea brief account of them with their distribution trib ution and their botanical names and with some pictures of tha growing plant but beyond this mr pritchett does not attempt to go he dutch and german smokers and he has aard on french pipes what kind of stuff these people burn in their pipes is not so much as k hinted af the english traveler op the continent will soon gain the information for himself go where he imay he will find it simply impossible obtain what he will dignify alth the name of tobacco the german and dutch forma ay better than the italian and the french but w e can say no more than this for them arance erance we are inclined to put as the lowest among civilized tobacco colsum ing countries the hand of the government makes itself felt all through tho three kinds of foreign velch are admitted into france are purchased oni government account and they are about bally bad the native grown tobacco is wholly in r and athas the doubtful merit of bangey strong or as we should term it very rank care is further taken that no one with capital at command shallie suf feredja open a tobacco shop athe whole storks out as we there is ismall chanca anywhere and only between bad an worse it would perhaps do to reconcile the english mac haa the means 03 comparing his position with hit fellow in france haa not only highe wages and shorter houn of work but be can also purchase so 31 an muncs a kind 0 tobacco by no means of the i nevertheless far superior to any alyc either a french workman boca french millionaire can for in his owa do not know what balut our working common comes to them as a anat of course but we believe then S ie la rebellion tomorrow to morrow it h j were taken away and they bec eom smoke caporal nor we iare to say that it had not boon aban bantly provoked t A |
