TOBACCO BENEFITS. 



DESTROYING VERMIN ; EXCLUDING LADIES ; MEL- 

 LOWING THEOLOGY ; INDUCING SELF-ABASEMENT ; 

 SUBDUING BAD SMELLS. 



Are there no benefits, you will ask, resulting 

 from the use of tobacco ? 



I have alluded to the security it affords against 

 being devoured by wolves, buzzards, and cannibals, 

 of which advantage its defenders are at liberty to 

 make the most. 



It is useful in destroying sheep-ticks and any 

 creature that molests man. The vapor of tobacco- 

 juice has been tested in France with great success 

 as an insect-destroyer in hothouses, effectually 

 disposing of thrips, scales, and slugs. It also 

 scares away moths, carpet-bugs, and other vermin, 

 and thus preserves furs and woollens. 



By excluding ladies from festive breakfast and 

 dinner parties, it withdraws from gentlemen a 

 disagreeable restraint. 



An acquaintance argues that smoking tends to 

 round off sharp, doctrinal edges, and thus to 



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