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years being twenty of the largest cigars, the whole 

 expense being estimated at from forty to fifty 

 thousand dollars. 



We are told of a Western clergyman, an exces- 

 sive smoker, who, dying of this same disease, 

 expressed submission to the will of God " who had 

 decreed his death in that particular manner." He 

 may have been a good man, and sincere in his 

 ignorance, but ought he not to have known that 

 he was neither more nor less than a suicide ? 



IMPAIRED MUSCULAR FORCE. 



There is a fact well known to the medical pro- 

 fession which speaks volumes. It is that tobacco- 

 using surgeons are unable to perform any nice 

 operation, unless the nerves, unstrung by the nar- 

 cotic, are first steadied by some powerful drug or 

 alcoholic stimulant. 



Some physicians maintain that a smoker cannot 

 be a successful oculist, as firmness of nerve is 

 one of the essentials in the treatment of so delicate 

 an organ as the eye. 



An impairing of the muscular force is often seen 

 in the tremulous hand-writing of the tobacco- 

 votary. So significant is this, that applicants for 

 the situation of book-keeper have sometimes been 

 rejected because of the habit thus indicated. That 

 there is the same betrayal of the habit in drawing, 

 we find in a letter of Medical Inspector Gorgas, 

 who writes to the superintendent of the Naval 

 A en demy at Annapolis : " The professor of draw- 



