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account : A ragged eight-year-old Italian boy, 

 bareheaded and barefooted, was brought before 

 one of the city justices on the charge of vagrancy. 

 The officer who arrested him stated that he had 

 found the boy picking up cigar stumps from the 

 streets and gutters, showing the justice a basket 

 half full of such stumps, water-soaked and cov- 

 ered with mud. "What do you do with these?" 

 asked his Honor. " I sell them to a man for ten 

 cents a pound, and they are used for making ciga- 

 rettes." 



The statements of the representative of a large 

 Southern tobacco house, given on the authority of 

 the New York Tribune, will not be questioned. 

 He asserts that "the extent to which drugs are 

 used in cigarettes is appalling," and that "Havana 

 flavoring" is sold everywhere and by the thousand 

 barrels. This is prepared from the tonka-bean, 

 which contains a deadly poison. Cigarette wrap- 

 pers are in some cases made from the filthy scrap- 

 ings of rag-pickers, arsenic being often used in 

 the bleaching process, while combustion develops 

 the oil of creosote. 



Tobacconists report that cigarettes are coming 

 to overshadow all other branches of the business ; 

 and it is stated officially that the revenue of our 

 government has gained by several millions from 

 their increased use. As helping to account for 

 this increase, we also learn that "ladies, in grow- 

 ing numbers, habitually use cigarettes." 



A teacher of long experience remarks : "I think 



