The Word Cigar

The word "cigar" is believedto come f rom the Spanish cigarra, meiuing a grasshopper, and at flrst the sigiuiïcauce and propriety of the term seem questionable. Bnt in Spanish a garden was cigarral, or the place where the grasshopper sang. Tobacco was usually grown in a cigarral, and when the lea ves were rolled up and brought to a guest the host, specially to recommend the product, was careful to state that it was grown in bis own cigarral. Thus the word wbich means grasshopper carne, in a modifled form, to be applied to the habitat of the grasshopper, and finally to the cigar, whose material was grown there. Made Cupld Hostie. The"beantifDl Smith girls, " as Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt and hér sisters were called, have made Cnpid work overtime to keep track of