Show where tile clear cigar got its name the origin of the word cigar is of some interest and is not to be found I 1 in the ordinary dictionaries the word of course is spanish and littre in his french dictionary says that it is derived y hopper when the spaniards first introduced tobacco into spain from the island of cuba in the sixteenth century they ey cultivated tile the plant in their gardens which in spanish are called cigar rales each grew his tobacco in ilis his garral ci ei and rolled it up for iam smoking oking as he be had learned from the indians indiana in the west indies when one off offered ered a smoke to a friend be auld could say Es do mi ci ei parral garral it is from my garden soon the expression came to be este cigarro ciparro es de mi cigar ral this cigar is from my garden and from this the word spread over the world the name ci garral tor for garden comes from cegarra cigarra ci gatra garra a grasshopper that insect being very common in spain and ci garral meaning in the place where the cl cegarra cigarra arra sings in thu way th word cigar comes from ci cegarra cigarra garra the name naine of the insect not because it resembles the body of the grasshopper but because it was grown in tho the place it frequents chica chicago 0 o tribune |