Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1884 — The Popular Cigarette. [ARTICLE]

The Popular Cigarette.

“The consumption of pigaretfes is almost phenomenal; and while the sale of cigars does not seem to have decreased much, I sell at least five times the quantity of cigarettes now I sold three years ago.” So said the keeper of a large cigar store to a New York Tribune reporter. - “How do I account, for this? Well, on fitst thought, it might seem as if the smok ers of cigars had lessened and that they had become enamored of the milder weed. But this is not so, for the sale of cigars has been as good with me as it has ever been. It is rather, I think, that the cigarette has filled a want and has given rise to anew class of smokers who did not use tobacco before. Going on the elevated, riding in the bridge cars, traveling on most of the surface cars, waiting between the acts at the theaters, and many other circumstances, tend to bring the cigarette largely into use. If you, purchase a cigar on your way to any of the lines of travel you haven't it half smoked before it has to be put out or thrown away. Most people will throw it aw r ay. And then the ladies, no matter what may be said, dislike smoking, but if they have to endure it, they prefer the soft, harmless smoke of a mild cigarette. The small boys ? Yes, the small boys spend most of their newspaper profits in smoking them. You may get a package of twenty for 10 cents, and many’s the time I’ve had half a score of them pool a cent apiece in order to have two cigarettes each, where singly they could only have one.” The new Upright Pianos of Mason 4 Hamlin are highly praised by good judges. They possess a refinement of musical tone which charms the connoisseur and all who hear it. This is owing largely to the new system of their construction. The great experience of Mason & Hamlin in their organ business, with the aid of their large corps of superior musical and mechanical experts, has enabled them, after several years of expensive experiments, to produce a piano which bi<}s fair to do more for their reputation than evet their famous organs have accomplished. Their chief improvement consists in securing the strings by metallic fastenings, instead of pins held by friction, which renders it easy to putthe three strings of each tone exactly in unison, and thereby produce tones of wonderful sweetness and purity. Messrs. Mason 4 Hamlin have made 150,000 cabinet organs. 1 hey can hardly hope to reach this numbet of pianos, but we doubt not their new “up rights” will command a very large sale.— Bouton Traveller. -