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Slogan took out his clay pipe with its cane stem and knocked it on the heel of his boot, then he put it into his mouth and blew through it till the liquid nicotine cracked audibly. "I've been huntin'," he said, dryly.
It began with a wish. That takes me back to a pleasant day in early August, 1914, and a verandah at Ravenscrag, Muskoka a broad, cool, verandah overlooking dancing dark waters. A light breeze stirred the leaves and gently wafted to us the smell of the pines and the woods, mingled with the sweet odours of the scented geranium, verbena, and nicotine in the rock-girt garden.
For this reason the amount of food taken, fails to nourish as it should, and either more food must be taken, or the body becomes gradually impoverished. The poisonous nicotine, the active element of tobacco, exerts a destructive influence upon the stomach digestion, enfeebling the vigor of the muscular walls of that organ.
Mistress Carmen's little room was opposite to Thatcher's, and once or twice, the doors being open, Thatcher had a glimpse across the passage of a black-haired and a sturdy, boyish little figure in a great blue apron, perched on a stool before an easel, and on the other hand, Carmen had often been conscious of the fumes of a tobacco pipe penetrating her cloistered seclusion, and had seen across the passage, vaguely enveloped in the same nicotine cloud, an American Olympian, in a rocking chair, with his feet on the mantel shelf.
It is a kind of sea-weed, rich in nicotine, with which the sea provides me, but somewhat sparingly." At that moment Captain Nemo opened a door which stood opposite to that by which I had entered the library, and I passed into an immense drawing-room splendidly lighted. It was a vast, four-sided room, thirty feet long, eighteen wide, and fifteen high.
Perhaps some day the government will crown a Colyumist Laureate, some majestic sage with ancient patient blue eyes and a snowy beard nobly stained with nicotine, whose utterances will be heeded with shuddering respect.
The moral oppression had produced a physical craving for air, and he strode on, opening his lungs to the reverberating coldness of the night. At the corner of Fifth Avenue Van Alstyne hailed him with an offer of company. "Walking? A good thing to blow the smoke out of one's head. Now that women have taken to tobacco we live in a bath of nicotine.
Everything considered, the free use of alcohol is incompatible with the nervous health and moral tone of a community. *Nicotine and the Nervous System.*—Nicotine is an oily substance which is extracted from the tobacco plant. Its action on the nervous system is in general that of a poison.
"For myself, I am not a painter of obscene subjects and lewd photography." Marianne shrugged her shoulders and went out, coughing involuntarily. Old Kayser passed his time steeped in the odors of nicotine. "I am lost, if Vaudrey comes here," she said to herself.
But with this granted, the simplest alkaloid formulas, those of conine, C H N, and nicotine, C H N , still showed that the amine molecule contained quite complex groups of carbon and hydrogen atoms, and the great majority of the alkaloids the non-volatile ones contained groups in which the three elements, carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen, all entered.
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