Of What Cigarettes Are Made

A correspondent of the Philadelphia Times speaks of a cartload of old cigar stumps which he Sdv drying in the suu in the rear of 816 Carpenter street. In that great pile of nicotine-soaked remrjants were the remains of choice brands reduced toa comrnon level with the vilest kinds, for the collectors receive no more for a bushei gathered from the sweepings of a fashionable hotel than for the same quantity lifted from gutter-ocze of the slums. Aside from the ten bushels seen drying at tliis place, twice that quantity of cured butts were seen in a third-story roona. The proprietor of this establishment was found to be one of half-a-dozen Italiana on that and a neighboriug street, who make a business of buying cigar stumps from the horde of youthful scavengers who live in the Itaüan quarter of that city. An active boy or girl will collect half a bnshel of stumps in an hour orso, thework beiag Jon6 between daylight andeight o'clock,and between those hours all the principal streets in the heart of the city are gleaned. The children receive no fixed price for the stumps, but ten or tuteen cents a pailful ia usually paid. The buyers wash the ülthiest of the disgusting thiugs, and spread them out to dry. A day or so later, they are crushed into shreds, and allowed to dry twenty-four hours longer being packed in flour barrels and shipped to New York. A barrel of this stump tobáceo is worth $2 50. It is bought by manufacturera of cigarettes and line-cut chewing tobáceo. A wholesale tobacconist of many years' experience declares that, when the stuoap tobacoo is ground, bleached, flavored, and made up in cigarettte pa)ers, no one but an expert can detect he difference between it and new leaf