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ards to ruin both body and soul ? " And the good 

 man instantly abandoned his habit. 



The following, from the Boston Evening Journal, 

 bears on the assertion that tobacco lessens the 

 power of endurance : "According to Lieut. Gree- 

 ly's account of the nineteen men who perished " 

 (in the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition) "all but 

 one were smokers, and that one was the last to die. 

 The seven survivors were non-smoking men." 



To make sure of the correctness of this report, 

 a letter of inquiry was sent to Lieut. Greely. 

 His reply substantially confirms it, except on a 

 single point, which is that one of the seven rescued 

 was an inveterate tobacco-chewer. Candor re- 

 quires this correction, whatever inference the 

 devotees of the weed may be inclined to draw 

 from it. The lieutenant closes his letter by 

 saying : " That no undue weight may be given 

 to the facts, I add that the seven rescued were 

 all temperate in eating and drinking." 



PROMOTING SOCIABILITY. 



Man is pronounced an unsocial being, and it is 

 claimed that smoking is the antidote for this. In 

 olden times, it was supposed that women were the 

 great promoters of sociability. But this impres- 

 sion must have been a mistake. The fact seems 

 to be that their presence is an incubus on the spir- 

 its of mankind, so that, after dinner, they are ex- 

 pected to withdraw, and allow gentlemen, through 

 their cigars, to have a good, social time. 



