Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1903 — Cause and Effect. [ARTICLE]

Cause and Effect.

When modem fiction writers Serve their thoughts up hot. We get erotic novels. with The accent on the “rot.” The name nicotine is a reminder of Jean Nicot, a French nobleman and embasaador to Portngal. In 1560 he sent a quantity of tobacco seeds from Lisbon to Paris, stating that they were the seeds of a valuable medicinal plant that was just then highly appreciated in Portugal, into which country it had been Introduced from America, forty years before. While a soldier likes ornaments, ht objects to upbraiding.