Show owe give below a few fel ir extracts for the benefit of tobacco chewers they are worth reading and pondering on dering upon they are made by fontana a distinguished chemist I 1 I 1 made a small incision in a pigeons leg and applied to it the oil of tobacco in less than two minutes it lost the of its foot 2 I 1 repeated this experiment on oil another and the re result alt was exactly the same 3 sit I 1 made a small wound in the pectoral muscles of a pigeon and applied the oil to it in three minutes it could no longer support itself on its left f foot oo 00 t 4 this experiment repeated on another resulted in the same way 5 1 I introduced into the pectoral muscles of a pigeon a small bit of wood covered with oil in a few minutes it fell insensible 6 two wo others to whose muscles I 1 applied this oil vomited all they had eaten 7 two others with empty stomachs treated as above made all possible efforts to vomit one single drop of this tobacco oil put upon the tongue of a cat has produced violent v I 1 convulsions I 1 and killed her in the space of one minute A thread dipped in the oil off and drawn through aal a flesh esh wound of a cat dog or any other animal of their size will kill it in seven minutes the above facts almost startle a person when we think how many maily are in iii the habit of chewing and smoking they certainly caution persons against andul indulging 9 ing in the habit I 1 |