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Show Tlie"Hnbble-Bubble." All typical orientals smoko. The tobacco-pipes are of various forms, and this one is called a joseh, because the water reservoir at the bottom is usually a cocoanut, that the Arabs call jouse-el-hind (Indian nut). The ordinary pipe of the East is the narghili, or hubble-bubble, such as the barber has in his shop. This is a glass vessel surmounted by a little brass bowl for the tobacco, and pro-Tided pro-Tided with a flexible tube four or five feet long. The glass vessel is partly filled with water, a portion of moist tobacco is placed in the brass bowl, a red-hot coal is laid on this, and the pipe is ready. The smoke being drawn through the water is cooled and purified, puri-fied, while the sound of the air agitating the water gives the pipe its name of the hubble-bubble. St. Nicholas, |
