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Southland Times, Issue 1239, 19 April 1870, Page 3

A Substitute fob Tobacco.— A correspondent of a Calcutta paper makes - a carious suggestion to tobacco-smokers. Alluding to the alleged discovery, by a Parisian chemist, that watercress is a perfect antidote to nicotine, he says : — "It lately entered into my head to try how some of it dried would smoke. To my great satisfaction I found that when pUt into my pipe, after a couple of days' drying in the sua, it had all the flavour of the best cavendish without the treacle/ and it was even stronger than cavendish. Here, then, is a perfect substitute for tobacco, without thedeleterious and deadly poison so freely contained in the latter ; and it is at the sametimeckeaper. Watercress, with its fine stalks and leaves, when dried, requires no cutting to fit it for the pipe ; and while a pound of cut tobacco ranges from 2 to 4 rupees, here we have an article, a rupee's . worth of which, when dried, would weigh more than ft couple of pounds." The most difficult ascent— Getting up a subscription. What goes most against a fanner's grain-rHis mowing machine.