Show substitute for tobacco it is ia bard to think of anything else than tobacco in connection with pipes certainly hardly any substance with ill the exception of the fragrant weed i ia now in general genera use in civilized countries at least but it is a fact well worth pasting in every smokers hat bat that taking the world altogether from its dawn dawning i ng to the present tim eto bacco as it il is known today has been the least favored substance of all for filling the pipe bowl innumerable are the substances that lave have been adopted at it various times by nations nation on the boun boundaries darieR of civilization or in faraway far away paita of the globe for pipe fillings acie ho however vever it ia it a partial list and one that has a good deal of novelty about it the bark of 01 the w willow illow tree jhb leaves of roses wild thyme lavender lavender tea lea beet roots maize maie the roots of the walnut tree rush nood dust hemp and opium and when it il comes to pipes the variety of these cone consoling oling articles would make a list too long to be printed bamboo is used for almost everything in ill china and the chinese pipe stems are naturally of bamboo in india leather tales lakes the place of bamboo jasmine is ill used for pipe stems in persia aud in alii minor cherry wood is 19 a favorite material materi il russian pipes are generally enveloped with a metallic tissue to guard against fire and nearly all have covers these being precautions that are advisable in a country where so large a tion odthe of the houses are built of wood perhaps tbs abs most curious pipe bowls in the world aro are to be found in the philippine islands where gold being the only metal handy the inhabitants hollow bollow out the nuggets and make use of them for their pipes the pipes of old rome as antiquarians know were made of brone and iron and the american indians it Is 19 needless to say used stone ex |