TOBACCO LEAVES 



time. He gave away all he could, but he 

 was so surrounded with cigars that he got 

 to smoking them regularly. But he never 

 smoked as much as he seemed to smoke. 

 He would light a cigar after breakfast 

 and let it go out, then light it again, and 

 then let it go out and light it ; so that the 

 one cigar would last until lunch-time." 

 McClure's Magazine. 



THE BEIAE - ROOT INDUSTEY 



ME. CAEMICHAEL, British Vice-Consul 

 at Leghorn, devotes an interesting section 

 of the report on his district for the past 

 year to an account of the briar-root in- 

 dustry. The wood, he says, from which 

 briar pipes are made is not the root of the 

 briar rose, but the root of the large heath 

 known in botany as the Erica arborea. 



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