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PIPE GOSSIP.
Inter
eating to Those Who Delight
in the Smoking Bowl.
Vt«nHlln of People Who Use N'» root
let
Tlio I'umm mill Suiokers of the World—
A Simple, Old.lined KiuU Over
power* All Sew Competitors.
It is a curious fact that the use of
narcotics should prevail all over the
world. Amongst those largely used,
tobacco is a prime fa von to. and is
ii -stly indulged in through the medium JX-'itoT^P H*' 'T'*
el smoking. Since the days of Ualeigh
pipe manufacturers have' ^eatly1*J P!1"'"4
proved on the curious smoking appa- i
ratus still preserved as a relic of Sir
Some of the flr.st, pipes used ui Eliza
beth's time consisted of walnut shells
furnished with stems of strong straw\
Pipes of iron, silver, clay and wood suc
ceeded—till wo come to the meer
schaum. The whito earthen porous
pipe ranks first, as the best absorber of
nicotine, just as the metallic pipe comes
last for opposite reasons. The
nil
Bchaum immediately follows e clay
pipe, but, when fully seasone i. it 15 no
better than a wooden pipe.
A shoemaker in Hungary, who was
Ingenious in carving, hits the honor of
having carved the first pipo from a
v
piece of meerschaum which had been I
presented to him as a curiosity. Its I
pordu# nature struck the shoemaker as I
bcinjf well adapted for absorbing nico- I
tine. That first meerschaum has been I
preserved in the museum of I'esth. The
Ingenious carver found that the shoe
maker's wax, which in the courso of his I
trade accidentally adhered to the bowl' I 'T
On being rubbed off brought out a clear ll-oT.Tk
For mouthpieces the Turks were the
first to adopt amber. As all pipo-fan
ciers know, the clear amber is the
least valuable and the clouded the
greatest favorite, the best of all being
that of the opaque yellow color. This
material was used by the Turks for
mouthpieces in the belief that it would
convey 110 infectious disease. This be
lief could hardly have been shared by
the American humorist when he dis
covered the "taste of generations" on
the mouthpieco of the Eastern pipe,
which is one of the attendant luxuries
of the hot bath.
1 he pipes of a Turkish dignitary are
magnificent according to the rank of
bis visitors. A pasha possessed a col
lection of pipes said to be worth thirty
thousand pounds sterling, many of them
being ornamented withdiamon'ds. Some
Eastern pipes have tassels of diamonds
depending from them, besides rings of
the same precious stones round the am
ber mouthpieces. The pipo which the
fibah of Persia smokes in public is in
crusted with diamonds, rubies, pearls
and emeralds of great value.
Lord Hyron in his Eastern travels be
came a great pipe-fancier, and Disraeli
when in Cairo proved himself an accom
plished smoker. He possessed a great
Variety of pipes, from hookahs to
dhudeens. He christened some of his
pipes in a magniloquent fashion. One
he called IJosporous and another Sul
tan. The stems of some of them were
many feet long, made of wood covered
with fluted silk. It is considered the
Cherry tree and jasmine make the best
pipo stems the longer and straighter
the stem the greater is the value. The
bOA-lsof such pipes are usually of red
•lay and ornamented.
Tba narghile is said to be a favorite
"I use Aver Ch«rrv Pictorul freely in
brown polish. He therefore waved the ii curious method to ruin a
whole surface, polished the pipe, smoked i
it, and admired the colored result.
Pipes of this description were at first
confinod to the richest European noble
men until 18 'ii, when they came more
generally into use.
Ruhla. a mountain village in Thur
ingi.i, is the center of tlie pipe manu
facture of Germany, where they turn
out over half a million real meerschaums
yearly, besides thousands of other
pipes of infinite variety, made of wood,,
lava, clay, porcelain and vast numbers"
of imitation meerschaums. The dis
covery of the art of making false meer
schaums from the dust left aft'T carv
ing and boring tlio real article was a
secret for some time. Hut pip.es of this
description do not color so well, for the
porous character of the native meer
schaum is partly lost in the process.
There are five qualities of meerschaum
used in making pipes. The best is
known by its facial absorption of the
nicotine, which gradually develops into
S rich brown blush upon the surface.
The absorption of the essential oils of
tobacco purifies the smoke, and the
harmful qualities of tobacco decrease
»s its flavor improves,
l.o touch on the subject of pipe-color
ing, smokers may be reminded Uiatas so
many meerschaums are not genuine'
they may often offer up their^incense
to the goddess Nicotina in vain. As a
rule, a new bowl should not be smoked
to the bottom, nor, when it is warm,
touched by the hand, nor yet the color
ing produced too rapidly. It is said
two clever French chemists have in
vented a royal road to the coloring of a
weerschaum. Jty the application of
ether and alcohol, combined with an
essence, such as that of rose, in which
ten per cent, of camphor and the same
proportion of borate of soda are dis
solved, they have succeeded in endow
ing cigar-holders and pipe-bowls with
the property of rapidly assuming that
yellowish-brown tint of maturity so
dear to the lovers of the weed.
with Syrian ladies, who Inhale tt»*
smoke through a globular j^lass vessel
fj
1 If1 with scented water. In Egypt, too,
these kinds of pipes are more in fashion
than the chiboque. Splendid pipes with
their attendant ceremonies of filling
cleaning and presenting by special
servants, form one of the most ostenta*
tious of Oriental extravagance.
Tlie influence of European habits is,
we believe, causing the hookah, with
all its pomp and display, to disappear
in India. The pipes used in Morocco
are very fanciful and profusely deco* I
0'„,\V
\Valter. The discovery of some small I of' i
pipes in the mortar of one of our an
clent abbeys seems to indicate that the
practice of smoking some native herb
whs customary prior to the ii. r,. ivtion
©f tobacco from America.
lnst, :id u at l,,
.•,.(•1••
in
was constantly crowded.
In spite of all rivals, clay pipes nave
held their own. They have been manu
factured in great numbers
ru,mtM rs
S of ri
y
al,
'.V- They
manufactory of pioes which had been
-set up in Flanders. As the high duty
rendered a large importation too ex
pensive, they loaded a large ship with
pipes, and purposely wrecked her near
Ostend. The pipes were landed from
the wreck, in accordance with the maii
time laws of that city, and sold at
low prices as defied competition: ,n
sequeiuly, the new munufactoty w.i
ruined.
Some Swiss pipes ar n i of n mv
pieces, ornamented wi:h n vi-.gs.
the bowls protected from rotu weather
with inotul ciipn.
lo turn to a considera-i.'ii
pipes of less civilized races, the famous
calumet, with its feather and quill
ornamentation, first claims our atten- bis annual entire crop (at a tim«
tion. This, as Catlin tells us, was a
sacred pipe, ditreringin appe.irancn and
uses from all others. It is public prop
erty, and always kept in the posses
sion of the chief, and only used on par- the farm was given
ticularoccasions. In the center of the This
circle of warriors the pipo of peace rests
two littb
with
on two little note ho 4. charge 1
tobacco, when each chief and warrior
draws in turn one whiff of smoke thro ,,-t,
the sacred stem, which is theequi ..
ent to the signing of a treaty.
In the country of the Sioux is the
Pipe stone quarry from which the In
dians take 1 heir pipe bowls, under the
Wliuf that, thoy thiMiisi.*!v*s woro mad**
from this red stone, and it must, he used
for no other purpose. The redskin also
•smokes through his tomahawk handle,
and his duskier African brother takes a
whilf through pipes of iron. The rough
pipes of the /.tilus are often lined with
this material. The Kaffir is a great
lover of the weed, and will improvise ,1
pipe out of almost any thing.
It is curious to mark the repeated at
tempts there have been to invent a pipe
that will keep tobacco juice out of the
smoker's mouth. Numerous have been
the patents all claiming to have at
tained this end, but all seem more ir
less failures. Thoy are too nutiienus
to describe, but aro usually rather com
plicated contrivances that come to
pieces but none succeed in superseding
the simple old-fashioned pipe.
bus we sco that all over the world
from pipes of every description, to *:i .•
nothing of cigars and cigarettes, do
lovers of tobacco offer up—like liyron's
sailor-to .Kolus a constant sacrifice.
Britons aro partial to the briar 'md clay,
arlylo, Kingsley, and .Tennyson pre
ferred the "churchwarden." Tho Ger
man likes his china bowl, the Celestial
his minute one the Hindoo hh hubble
bubble, and the Turk his hookah.
Alas, said Hood, "that, our iangtiago
has no sound that can adequately repre
sent the lulling, bubbling voice of a
hookah, l'erchance in some fair isle
faraway in the Pacific, that low cooing
uttei iice may be the most beautiful
and endearing utterance possibly
)0
very perfection of love whispers. Sad
that English can only represent it by
1'urra-wurra—pobble bobble -bob— Ah!
me, my pipe is out, -type of Life-vapor,
smoko. We have come to the bottom of
the bowl—ashes to ashes."--Chambers'
•Journal.
A Wj'mpathetic l!oy.
-^'hat makes vou
Mothf
way?
•Johnnie—Our poor teacher has been
sick so long, and —and
"V\ hat! Did ho die?"
"No—no—ho is gettin
hoo!"—Texas Hiftings.
1 cry
that
Philosopher—"Don't be too hard on
the millionaire. Put yourself in his
place." Agitator (confidentially)—"Say,
pard, thats what I'm trying to do.
Tell me how, and I'll will you a cool
hundred thousand when I die."—Har
per's Bazar.
muse—a
of liv^ sn)nikot,n?
AGRICULTURAL HINTS.
A
I 1
uv,n a su:a of
e
bowl in the
end of the
with a hole lj.: 1 near the closed end
joint, forms a handy smoking ar
rangement for a Chinaman of the poor
classes: but his richer neigh hops use a
handsome littlo water-pipe made of
brass or silver. The bow! is filled with
a little pinch of tobacco which only pro
vides one or two whiffs, so, of course,
this pipe has to be refilled again and
agriin. 'I his is not the sort of nmolco
that could ho indulged in during work.
1
slender bamboo.
1
Nor is the (iernian pipo much better
in this respect, for its longgaudily-pict
ured china bowl requires io be
supported
by the band like a long clay. As these
.large bowls hold many ounces of tobac
co, they suggested an idea to a coffee
house keeper of Vienna of attracting
customers. He had a china bowl sus
pended over a large circular taWe, of
such gigantic dimensions as to lie capa
ble of containing a pound of tobacco,
and supplied with a sullicient number
of tubes to accommodate thirty persons
at one time. The novelty «eiM to
have succeeded, and the
MANAGEMENT.
ORCHARD
1
Xouiijc and
Troc* Ni'o'l Moth Manure
Mellow Cultivation.
common mistake in years past,
"Which the planters of orchards fell into,
was in supposing that orchards did not
require a.s much care and enriching as
any other cr«r en the farm. Many sot
out young and gave them little
more at ten They erroneously sup
posed that in uine these trees would
bear abundantly of fine fruit, atul bring
them in plenty of money. The trees
i were expected to takefulL care of them
selves. The result was that some died
the first year, a good many tin) second
i and in a few years but few remained,
A
neighbor sot out a hundred fine peach
trees. They were transplanted into a
clover meadow, and ailowedsuch chance
as tins place af'orded them. In two
years only three remained.
J? A
•M.i i:-&
c'*r.
I '•£•..* -V
1 v" V
^,% $
jg.
poor growth, ai i• i,
1 n
fruit.
Ill Cuiuruat Ytii.u tueae was an orchard
of a few apple trees in an adjoining
State on a place of a few acres, the own
er of which made it a rule to spread all
the enriching material he had of anv i
on the orchard ground. No crop was
raised beneath the trees, and the ground
.as so rich and mellow that it could 1,
easily kicked loose with the foot. Those
trees were loaded with largo and beau-
tiful fruit (Fig. li, while in other or
chards in the neighborhood they were
small and few. Another owner of a hun
dred and thirty acre, in this State made
the raising and sale of fruit his chit
business and source of profit. sellin«- 1
when
a new orchard
can give it both
So one should set o
unless he is sure he
manure and mellow cultivation. A
small one of a few acres, bearing yearly i
rich and beautiful specimens, is better
than a neglected one spreading over
wide acres. There will lie more profit
in tho .small and perfect one than
one extended and neglected.
in the
l"n til
ri
....
-V.-
C. /-At
plant?rs who have too means av.iid this
superficial practice, they will courn.-e
to sot the unwhole-.-iomo examplo to
others, and perpetuate to a great uegree
the slipshod style of orcharding i
may answer while tho trees are young
J'"
1 v ii, u tli0
this large annual draft can be suppli^]
by an annual or at least biennial top
in the autumn or winter, of
•arn manure. -Country Gentle-
dro.ssin
ric.h
man.
Putri/riiY droppings make the host
manure for the garden. If you have'no
already built a tight bin for their
ervation you should do so at once' Their
droppings when properly saved will be
1 worth at least one-third as
1 quantity of~oilm^»l added to
the horses meal during the
aid a tori all v
well—boo
to keep them
healthy condition. Tne best pl
So a..vcibit
is too^ld toTearn.
8Ul U yOUf h6IlS and thoy won,t
AMONG THE POULIKY.
Keep the feeding coops clean.
Sweet corn makos a splendid feed tor
young poultry.
A broad board makes a good feeding
place for soft feed.
Rightly managed, rod peppers fed to
poultry will aid materially to provent
cholera.
Poultry often do considerable damage
•1 ost iii the stables or
if allowed r-ios
granaries.
Systi'inai ::i feeding and car
ing'for the .-iiiry v. hat re
tarns the
most pro
lit-
In some iv/caiiti- s K.tiflr corn high
ly recommended us a loud for poultry
during-the winter.
All hens that do not show some par
ticular merit or evidence of thrift,
should be fattened and marketed.
Feeding skim-milk to the poultry can
often bo made fully as profitable as to
Suiccss, feed it to growing pigs. Give it a trial.
1
:ie
objection to guineas is that they
j, :i• inclined to go to fighting the hens
.o.iJ ti-irs o''i"i maVc trouble. Once
they s-urwd
at
i
t.ioy
It is rarely a i plan to discard a
variety as unprofitable after one sea
son's trial. it maybe your own fault i
and it is best to be sure before making
a change.—St. Louis Republic.
The best and easiest way of sup ly
ing salt to the poultry is by m.x.ng
with their soft food. During the win
tor it is best to give some warm, soft
food and wi'h it pe ,.-nr and salt
can bo given.
•bout The lirah are ant.-tig rhe of
.11 ujiiM! the large breeds, and with good care
nd poor the pullets will commence to lay when
(six months-.old, and will often Lay
thirty or forty egg, hef.o* they will be
come broody.
i i i 1 a e W e i e e y w i a u e v e v
kind the manure of the horse and cow,
Ducks are enorn eaters, but they
have one advantage, and that is if tliey
idiy The sooner lh(1 sl hls roust
lr(! soM ufl lbo for th lon rr
nt th
prices were higher than now) for about ^'"I'Ughout the whole countrj.
five thousand dollars. The rest of his \X
itarv to iu nr,ii.iw)ii on,1 I
farm was tributary to his orchards, and
oil or nearly all tlio manure made on
to nis fruit trees,
treatment gave him good crops
others ha-.i none, ami lar-'o and-a- I
tractive fruit, when in other°orchards
the apples were small an i
the trees stiii appe
Fig. 2.
., ,,
CURVILINEAR ROOFS.
*1 ho I$est Uiiy oT Construrtiuff i'llprc
ten turns (.rren house*.
S.nne years ago when foreign
WaS m,t mir niIIU,n tu
wr
A
mirwi'i 'ir'
ci uVlI.I.M.Al 1,1 .OKS.
vatorie-.
forms, is
more in
v?
V
.• •'J
.- i
a- the outline, in its many
:i-
r-- 'Hn
"'R pleasinpr to the eye and
harmony with architectural
science than the lean-to or shed roof, or
ie common span-roof gn'fnhouse. The
large conservatories of our public parks
combinations of the
1 he bc.st, samples are
made of metal in preference to wood, as
tho cost is often considerable, and wood
s very perishable in a gre-ribouHo un
•esstiin utmost caro i
usually have
curvilinear roof.
3
HPn
uken i,
siruciion.
Whc
1*.<p></p>^S"?
^nbestbodonJ in o
as ti,,. f.
when slaked
much
costs to keep them.
A
smai,
as it
The pleasant f]^
i ts con-
4 sed a
j""'
u
with oil and
.. should likewise be
nted every two or three years. With
wll'i
(J
,"
They
s
well therefore for the planter to de
termine beforehand what special atten
tion can be given to the trees, and fix
on the size of the orchard accordingly
Cultivation alone, keeping U
nhU S( S V, n of Wc ,d
-Prairie Farmer.
SHELLS_FOR LIME.
Aro Not An Honelicial a
Would Have I s Think.
As the hens will not eat oyster shells
o|,(nnd as fine
Wil(
i0 so
ii
clean and mellow for several years
fi.i if
1
.uT:/"' n
en
.V into heavy boar
in*
sl ,lls
ing to o-find tt
'Vstersl
P, V n t0 f0W]s U
th dri
nking water
y
is
^e
e
i
purpose.
(hydraU
h6 b0St form
The lime of the rTtr«i,
n
ti
cured fr the f,,r i°
n bo 8€
hens are sSnoli -V
y if
andavariet/S flT J!i
confined and fed entirelv
winter will
"1 a good
an
i^'to
xnix it withjnittle wheat bran.
.A two-stohv poultry house is excel
lejU wuore a large number of fowls is
s
11
•oothinjr elTccts or i
IV
need ot 7i lux-ui,
i
rui'
e e o s i v e
0 S i
results follow it, TV111"
familv
,1
1/
S
should bu,, ,'i^a
Poison^
by Scrofu
many
I» the nail dtory .if
tliroiu'i no tuul't of
e.-i'oemlly tliKii H.iy nth„
'f their
Su
and 1r this Hlmpi,,
rea on a
B!id niMinicient til,mi 1 the rt
at
tymihalics, whi.'-d »r«
tissue there la a (wrlodV,
?oro the unburn (ipM *,.1"''""J''1
una dr,.a,nui diSea
scrofula, whether hcrodlt»V'et'(SieUB?
Hoods SiirsnpariHa, which i\ "H*
mI»om
th«
lh»»d. e,
'"P
and (jives to tho vKiU Uui,. ,, ..'rj,'s
health. If y
Uo not accept any nubMuu™
,lM
ttte iiw
Hood's Sarsa
Sv'Kt by all dm
are \i-ry hard
to 1 i ,v.
If coal ashes are used for a dust bath,
care should be taken to sift out all the
coarse material before putting it in the
boxes. If this is iom it makes a very
good material.
by C. I. Uu jlI^To
1
seo Louse-
ing them like the one shown
here. They have now all but
U..
disap­
peared entirely. The class of bouses,
which the one herewith shown is an
private
xani !r ls hou,,V(t
r.sintab]o for privr
whe ro tho an
attach
to tho dwellings in the form of conser
the fori
Apotiiecrj™^
100 Doses One
St
op thai]
CHRONIC COUGH HS
not it
"r ir you do
siiin]i!l',«v. I'ot
«."»' "I /t-biiin/mui
tlioro is iii it ti i ,» nu
Ot J'lliv mi |,jv, j. (j i
HYPOPHOSPHITES
liivin
Until
wonderful tk-aii jroa,
•H'bu..,
•Iicio arc ]"»ir
Imitations. •,
NEVER A F/,1 :-t
The Rod River Valley of
Minnesota and
North n.iMii.i
lias
never
had a failure
of crops.
It produced 30,00(1,000
bushels of u licat
besides other cereals iu 15K.
Farms can be h:ul
on tiie
ero]'plan, or long t'tue
cash payments.
it is not mi iwicoiiimon.thing
to pay for a farm
from tho proceeds of
one crop.
It has all of the advantages
of an old country in
the shape of school, clittrA
market, postal and railway!
and all the chaneo of
a new country in
the way of
cheap larnN. rieii soil, and
increase in values.
It is one of the most
fertile ami promising
regions in America
not yet fully occupied.
In the rush to the far
west, however,
this rich alley lias
been overlooked.
It has room for a
million more people.
Write to
grapes.
I gruvwi in greenhouses, were all th
1
rage, and before the magnificent san
pios
same had been generally iri-
F. I. WIIITM.V. St PauUl
for particulars.
Publi- ati'oi- -en' tiec.
READ THIS LEI
"F(»r yi'arn I lutv* »fTii
hfti, 'nimt i put i«»n ft"'! ui
triofi k|| th«» in«4(ilriiiefi I
lut
r80 rjioc,:s il is do, ibt
lirne f. V
8
assist in supplying
n»nllg'li
all in vuln, ven my
tic»t
lire rather
becauso of being
s iarp lI1(i
1
assist-
fo Ml 1,1
ton.
t'«' gizzard.
as lns
»l»W« as lime-
iu v rout I Inih"
time I ru^ji!••! un|r jmin
ft hurij*n, 'I n w ntfo i i
**J Jim s," Hml inv *vo f**H
4,11 an
til en of I ntt'* I'ii U. 1 lerhl» totr*"
1
Ih*-
lifivt* \%ork«M| woti«Urfully. TnJ
regular, |nrt nn
fippf tito ami nre nir•lnf 1Ji^
roiii kihI can witlk any
la«l I piliH flvci Aral's
liavo kjivf«l m«. SlO.Ot'iO l»uf
tny lilV. l^t tli#* Mfllicfcl
vernT
_^
tllcir Viilu«*T uliich is
TIII KAI DM Ml^P
Tutt's Liver
ASM MIL
ATS THE TOOK
tho
9 aTO
will have soft slmll
how well the hen!
(7! a n U
n
pounicd oyster^hid
1^
sections of the
•re
UpI) ind
n Kome
IT,'
ere tion of
1 th lls
culty in rerrard t/?v,
18 no diffl
BOILING WATtR OR M|J(j
^e
Cnty
deficient in iime, and when
i
coco
are
GRATEFUL-COMFORTI^J
LABELLED 1-2 LB. TINSON^J
the
promote
Pt'ind the
vor,
aro verw sor
se
it OWoti
"g the
eggs-Farm, Field
Ldytocw' the
^alration OU wSlr