Eaton Weekly Democrat

About Smoking.

A curious investigator has gathered a great number of facts relative to smokers. Ben Jonson loved the "durne weed," and describes its every accident with the gusto of a connoisseur. Milton never went to bed without a pipe and a glass of water. Hobbes smoked, after his early dinner, pipes innumerable. Sir Isaac Newton was smoking in his garden at Woolsthorpe when the apple fell. Addison had a pipe in his mouth at all hours at "Button's." Fielding both smoked and chewed. Shelley never smoked, nor Wordsworth nor Keats. Coleridge, when cured of opium, which he used twenty years, took to snuff. Campbell loved a pipe. Sir Walter Scott smoked in his carriage, and regularly after dinner, loving both pipe and cigars. Byron wrote about "sublime tobacco," but was not an excessive smoker. Goethe did not smoke, nor did Shakespeare. Carlyle, now passed 70, was a sturdy smoker for years. Alfred Tennyson is a persistent smoker of some forty years. Dickens, Jerrold, and Thackeray all puffed. Lord Lytton loves a long pipe at night and cigars by day. Lord Houghton smoked moderately. The late J. M. Kemble, author of "The Seasons in England," was a tremendous smoker. Moore cared not for it; indeed, Irish gentlemen smoke much less than English. Wellington shunned it; so did Peel. Disraeli loved the long pipe in his youth, but in his middle age pronounced it "the tomb of love." The same writer gives the following advice to smokers.

1. Never smoke when the pores are open. They absorb, and you are unfit for decent society. Be it your study ever to escape the noses of strangers. First impressions are sometimes permanent, and you may lose a useful acquaintance.

2. Learn to smoke slowly. "Cultivate calm and intermittent puffs."--Sir Walter Scott.

3. On the first symptom of expectoration lay down the pipe or throw away the cigar; long continued expectoration is destructive to yourself and revolting to every spectator.

4. Let an interval elapse between the filling of succeeding pipes.

5. Clean your tube regularly, and your amber mouthpiece, with a feather dipped in spirits of lavender. Never suffer the conduit to remain discolored or stuffed.

6. A German receiver can be washed out like a teacup, and the oil collected is of value, but meerschaum should never be wetted. A small sponge at the end of a wire dipped in sweet oil should be used carefully and persistently round and round, coaxing out any hard confections, till the inside be entirely smooth in its dark polished grain, or rich mahogany tint. The outside also well polished with sweet oil and stale milk, then enveloped in chamois leather. The rich dark coloring is the pledge of your safety--better there than darkening your own brains.

Although the first woman was hardly an angel, Adam doubtless thought her an Evangel.