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SMOKES. 
promised faithfully not to repeat so don’t tell 
anyone very nice and we are great 
friends, but ! 
Mechanically, swiftly and deftly the cigar- 
ettes are rolled and the paper pasted. A 
quick worker will make 3,000 per day of ten 
hours. 
Devotees. Many are the worshippers that 
pay their homage at the shrine of the tobacco 
god. One authority estimates that one 
quarter of the human family indulges in this 
practice — a habit that is daily increasing. 
The following figures will give an idea of 
the consumption of tobacco by some of the 
different nations per annum : — 
PER CAPITUM. 
Holland - 7 lbs. Germany - 3^ lbs. 
United States 4J lbs. France - 2^ lbs. 
Austria Hungary 4 lbs. United Kingdom 2lbs. 
The following story of a juvenile “ lover of 
the weed” may interest the reader : — 
A street urchin had with expectancy and 
impatience been “ hanging round” a gentle- 
man who was waiting for his car and getting 
near the end of a Golofina cigar. At last the 
stump was thrown away — as ill-luck would 
have it into the gutter. I 11 a remarkably 
short space of time this “ crumb from the 
rich man’s table” was the treasured posses- 
sion o" the urchin. It was damp and had 
gone out. Fondly he wiped it with his 
sleeve and put it in his pocket to dry. Some 
time later this little fellow appeared peeping 
over the counter in a grocer’s store. “Beg 
