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Show The"IIubble-BubbIe." All typical orientals smoke. 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 Bur mounted by a little brass bowl for the tobacco, and provided pro-vided 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 puri, lied, while the sound of the air agitating the water gives the pipe its name of the hubble-bubble. St Nicholas, |