A paper--of tobacco; treating of the rise, progress, pleasures, and advantages of smoking. With anecdotes of distinguished smokers, mems. on pipes and tobacco-boxes, and a tritical essay on snuff / By Joseph Fume [i.e. W.A. Chatto] [pseud.].
- William Andrew Chatto
- Date:
- 1839
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A paper--of tobacco; treating of the rise, progress, pleasures, and advantages of smoking. With anecdotes of distinguished smokers, mems. on pipes and tobacco-boxes, and a tritical essay on snuff / By Joseph Fume [i.e. W.A. Chatto] [pseud.]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
171/206 page 143
![drum printed on their ounce and half-ounce wrappers. From a large collection of such exercises for the ingenious, I select the following as being one of the most apropos to a paper of tobacco —“ O and P ran a race; Q backed O, knowing that P would win. Why was this like going into a shop and asking for shag and getting short-cut ?—Because it was wrong to hack O.” When speaking of tobacco-paper, it may not perhaps be improper to insert the following adver- tisement, which appeared in an American newspaper, the Boston Evening Post, of 7th November, 1748, printed by Thomas Fleet. “ Choice Pennsylvania tobacco paper, to be sold by the publisher of this paper, at the Heart and Crown, where also may be had the Bulls or Indulgences of the present Pope TJrhan VIII.* either by the single Bull, quire, or ream, at a much cheaper rate than they can be pur- chased of the French or Spanish Priests, and yet will be warranted to be of the same advantage to the possessors.” “ These Bulls, or indulgences of his Holiness,” says Mr. Isaiah Thomas, “ were printed on the face of a small sheet; several bales of them were taken in a Spanish ship, captured by an English cruiser, and * The Advertiser here commits a trifling anachronism : Urban VIII. died in ] 644.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29299858_0171.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
