SPEEDY MARCH or EyII. pRopENsfrIEs.
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SPEEDY MARCH OF EVIL PROPENSfrIEs.


IoBAcco.-It is remarkable that while coffee,
win all Its singular powers of cheering the hu-
man mind, and refreshing the nerves, took nearly
iour hundred years to make itself known in Eu-
rope, and while the potatoe is scarcely more than
coming into use in large portion of the CONT
nent, tobacco took little more than half dozen
years to be known as far as ships could carry il.
The Spaniard sucks it, as he saws, for heat
the Dutchman for cold-the Frenchman because
he has nothing else to do--the German because
he will do nothing else-the London apprentice
because it makes him look like gentleman.


This weed, however, has not been without op-
posers as the following law, enacted by the States
of Connecticut and Massachusetts, as early as
1880, will shows:


he IL enacted, That no person under the ape
oftwenty, nor any other not already habituated
to it, shall use tobacco, until he has brought a
certificate from a physician stating that it is ne
cessary for his health, when he shall receive
license from the court. Those who have already
addicted themselves to this obnoxious weed, are
hereby prohibited from using it in company, at
their labor or on their travels unless they are at
least ten miles from any house, and that only once
a day, under penalty of sixpence for each Of
fence, of which the constabes are reouested To
give information to the District Court For the
fourth breach of the law the offender shall be i'm
prisoned and kept at hard labor for time speci-
fed, when his tongue shall be burnt through with
red hot iron--I1tel.