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little water will die in a few hours. Franklin 

 found that if the oil floating on the surface of 

 water, when a stream of tobacco-smoke has passed 

 through it, is applied to the tongue of a cat, it 

 shortly causes death. Put on a cat's tongue one 

 drop of nicotine, and in spite of its K seven lives," 

 it instantly writhes in convulsions, and dies. 



Set an open bottle containing a small quantity 

 of this oil under an inverted jar. Place a mouse 

 or a rat under the jar, taking care that the fresh 

 air is not excluded. Death presently follows, 

 simply from the animal's breathing the poisoned 

 atmosphere. And this same tobacco-laden atmos- 

 phere is that which we find everywhere, and from 

 which there is no escape. 



Put a tobacco victim into a hot bath ; let him re- 

 main there till a free perspiration takes place ; then 

 drop a fly into the water, and instant death ensues. 



Hold white paper over tobacco-smoke, and when 

 the cigar is consumed, scrape the condensed smoke 

 from the paper and put a very small amount on 

 the tongue of a cat ; in a few minutes it will die 

 of paralysis. 



Pack a tobacco votary in a wet sheet, and when 

 he is taken out the whole room is filled with the 

 odor. No wonder that wolves, buzzards, and can- 

 nibals retreat in disgust from the flesh of such a 

 man ! 



Among the animals denominated irrational it is 

 asserted that none can use the weed except the 

 loathsome tobacco-worm and the rock-ooat of 



