162 VARIETY OF PIPES. 
a few whiffs to produce the opium-smoker’s dreary delirium, 
The Tunisians use reeds for pipes. Stone pipes are found 
among the natives of Vancouver; while Strong Bow, the 
North American Indian chief, has his long wooden pipe of 
peace, decked out with tassels and fringes, but with an 
ominous-looking sharp steel cutting instrument near the end 
most remote from the bowl. 
Chinese, Japanese, Phillipine Islanders, Madagascans, Cen- 
tral Africans, Algerine Arabs, Mexicans, Paraguayans, 
Siamese, Tahitians, South American Indians, Mongols, 
Malays, Tartars, Turcomans, as well as the nations of Europe 
and the chief nations of Southern Asia, all have their smok- 
ing-pipes, plain or ornate, as the case may be, and made of 
wood, reeds, bamboo, bone, ivory, stone, earthenware, glass, 
porcelain, amber, agate, jade, precious metals and common 
metals, according to the civilization of the country and the 
‘ pecuniary means of the smoker. 
“The French clay pipes have quite a special character; 
: they are well made, and 
great ingenuity is shown 
in the preparation of the 
moulds in which they are 
pressed ; but being mostly 
intended for a class of 
purchasers who prefer 
grotesque ideas to refined 
taste, the bowls are often ornamented with queer shaped 
heads, having bead-like eyes; sometimes imaginary beings, 
sometimes caricature portraits of eminent persons. Where 
more than the head is represented, license is given to a 
certain grossness of idea; but this is not a general charac- 
teristic. The clay of which these French pipes are made is 
admitted to be superior to that of England, due to the careful 
mixture of different kinds, and to skilful manipulation. 
“We need not say much about Dutch pipes as distinct 
articles of mauufacture, because the process adopted in their 
roduction are pretty much like those in use elsewhere. 
he Dutch are famous clay-pipe smokers, not countenancing 
the 'cigar so much as their neighbors the Belgians, nor the 
meerschaum so largely as their German neighbors on the 
Rhine frontier. A notable bit of sharp practice is on record 
FANCY PIPES. 
