A Dainty “Smoke.”

Lake County Press, Issue 904, 29 March 1900, Page 7

A Dainty “Smoke.”

In America ladies are taking kindly to cigarette smoking, bur. with characteristic daintiness, they demand the smallest and most costly “ smoke” to be had. The popular form of the daintily-got-up cigarettes is* a “ w'hiff of abour dm. in'length. delicately perfumed, and put up in white and gold paper. There has been a great stile for these, and an enterprising New York dealer, who lias opened a shop sole]y for the sale of ladies’ cigarettes, is doing well with this brand alone. As quality and not quantity is the chief desideratum, they are not at all cheap, and perhaps the fascinating little boxes in which they are put up are somewhat extravagant. The great objection appears to bo the dislike to having the odour of tobacco linger about afterwards, and various devices are adopted to pr&vent the tobacco from touching the lips and fingers of the fair smoker. Indeed, the lat st cigarette-holder does not allow the smoke to enter the mouth at all.

The editor of a newspaper that has adopted phonetic spelling in a measure received a post-card from an o’d subscriber In the country which read as follows “ I hev tuk your paper for leven yeres, but if you kant spel enny better than you hev been doin’ for the last to months you may jes stopplt.” Mistress (to slovenly housemaid) : “ You should really keep yourself cleaner. Why don’t you imitate the cook t She is continually washing her face.” “ Ah. mum ! I can quite understand that. She is in love with a chimney nweeß.” Coughing often increases a headache because In the act the heart’s beating is augmented, and the flow of the blood to the head Is thus increased.

Bishop Durnford’s death removes the most aged prelate from the Bench of Bishops. He was appointed to the See of Chichester by Mr. Gladstone in 1870.

Max O’Rell says that it was in the streets of Buda-Pesth and in the draw-ing-rooms of Dublin he found the finest and the most beautiful types of womanhood.

A Swiss scientist has been testing the presence of bacteria in mountain air, and finds that not a single microbe exists beyond an altitude of 2000 ft. above the level of the sea.

The number of trees now growing in the public highways of London is fourteen thousand seven hundred. These are on the public highways alone, and not in the parks.