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Show Biggest Cigar In the World. Paymaster General Ustea uf the army possesses the largest llrar In the world. It la sixty-three Inches long and aa large around aa a man's arm at tbe thickest section. Us composition Includea twenty-two twenty-two classes of Philippine tobacco. The huge cigar la the gift of MaJ. W. If. Cumegys of the pay department, who sent It to the paymaster general with this note: "I send you tho largest cigar you have ever seen at least, tho largest I have ever seen. It la made of number uf the finest . hrunds of tobacco to-bacco grown on the islands. This waa manufactured at Ban Fernando do Union, In Union province. P. I. Tbe case Is also a curiosity. It may be called a family rlgar, as all smoke It, and the grandmother la supposed to finish It or tho cigar to finish tha grandniothor." Washington corre-spundunce corre-spundunce St. Louis Hepuhllc. |