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any fire, lighted pipe or cigar, the person so offend- 

 ing shall forfeit and pay, for each offence, a sum 

 not exceeding one hundred dollars, nor less than 

 twenty dollars." 



The first of these Acts was never enforced, and 

 having remained on the statute-book a dead letter 

 for more than sixty years, in 1880 it was repealed. 



The second, which is a law necessary to safety, 

 is still in force in Boston, and ought to be in every 

 city, town, and hamlet throughout the land, simply 

 as contemplating protection against fire. 



CULTURE. 



Much might be said under the financial head as 

 to the culture of this weed, but space allows only 

 a few words. 



"The tobacco plant," writes one, "is a great 

 exhauster. Whether raised north or south, on 

 the banks of the Danube or the Connecticut, it is 

 all the same. It is a huge glutton, which, con- 

 suming all about it, like Homer's glutton of old, 

 cries : * More I Give me more ! ' " 



Another : " A gum issues from green tobacco 

 that covers everything it comes in contact with. 

 We met recently a troop of men, fresh from the 

 tobacco-field, who might pass for Hottentots. 

 They looked as if they always burrowed in the 

 ground, and in hands and face, as well as dress, 

 were the color of woodchucks." 



Dr. Humphrey : " What shall we say to raising 

 tobacco — a narcotic plant which no brute will eat, 



