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children than the sin of tobacco-smoking. " He 

 adds, — w The enervation, the hypochondriasis, the 

 hysteria, the insanity, the dwarfish deformities, 

 the consumption, the suffering lives and early deaths 

 of the children of inveterate smokers, bear ample 

 testimony to the feebleness and unsoundness of the 

 constitution transmitted by this pernicious habit." 



A man of fine abilities, a member of one of the 

 learned professions, had early formed the habit of 

 both smoking and chewing. It grew upon him till 

 it had gained a complete mastery. His child was 

 diseased from infancy, had terrible convulsions, 

 became deformed and idiotic. The father suffered 

 from entire nervous derangement, and finally sank 

 into a decline. It was a bitter harvest that he 

 reaped for his indulgence, — the ruin of himself 

 and child. rr Oh, if I could only live my life over," 

 he exclaimed, K I would never touch the weed. 

 AVould that I could warn every boy and every 

 young man against this dreadful evil ! " 



Alas ! this Havana cloud on the horizon, is it 

 not a very dreadful one ? 



surgeox-general's report. 



In the Report of the Surgeon-General of the 

 United States Army for 1881, Dr. Albert L. 

 Gihon, senior medical officer of the Naval Academy 

 at Annapolis, Md., is referred to, as having made 

 a special study of the physical development of 

 applicants for admission to that institution, and 

 also of the cadets at stated intervals. Dr. Gihon's 



