Preventing Tobacco Smoke. WITH sentiments of liveliest satisfaction many persons will read that a horse-car passenger has lately punched another in the ribs with an umbrella, for the offense of blowing tobacco-smoke into his face. A smoking car was the scene of the difficulty, but the man with the umbrella claimed that the location did not make the annoyance any the less, and the court seems to have agreed with him. Perhaps the judge was a smoker himself, and knew by experience how annoying, enraging, insulting, and sickening it is to have a mouthful of smoke puffed into one's nostrils and eyes. There is a common impression that the tobacco habit justifies almost everything that its victim may do, but this is a mistake. Even if all cigars were good, smokers themselves would prefer to inhale the smoke in their own way and their own time, instead of having it forced into their noses and down their throats ; but as most cigars are not only not good, but very, very bad, the objection of having smoke forced upon any one is particularly strong among smokers themselves. This is a free country, and any man in it may make a beast of himself if he pleases ; but if in the ecstasy of indecency he puts his feet on the table, chair, or in the lap of another man, and puffs into the face of his victim the sickening effluvia of a roll of rotten weeds, or the cumulative poison of an unclean pipe, he should think himself fortunate to get off with an admonitory dig from an umbrella, for his real deserving is clubbing or kicking to an extent that the law disapproves.—N. Y. Herald.