Show MEN AND CIGARS Great Smokers Whom Actor William J Florence Has Known Now your Turk smokes and drinks coffee the one an antidote for the other said Capt Cuttle as he entered his dressingroom to don the everyday habiliments of William J Florence Several gentlemen had been discussing the public idea that Gen Grants mortal illness was due to excessive indulgence Mr Florence was asked in tobacco of actors what he know about the habits this respect in ar inveterate Edwin Booth said he is an m veterate pipesmoker I saw him during which he still uses the war with a pipe meerschaum which was his con a heavy He often smokes in stantcompanion stant Mc the morning while dressing John h and mild ones Cullough smokes cigars too many He smokes a cigar perhaps first thing in the morning and always wayra good one Poor Ned Sothern ways a week HerS rid of 100 cigars a would get with rS shoved one on a visitor always s and filled sometimes brandy and water when he went his own overcoat pockets always 53 Hewas fearful smoker out was a mouth burning it halt in his had one fresh weed He and then lighting a way from the and I imported our own cigars Cuba at a Raphael Diaz plantation in The plantation of 220 a thousand cost to have given out now Salve ini seems straw black with a smokes long cigars through emthe kind you get in Italy light their weed in that country They The iron frame over a lamp small on a sof the flame and end of the weed rests in burns a third of the way down the heat drawing out the nicotine King Hum bert smokes in this way John Mackay j smokes cigars costing from thirty to fifty cents apiece and gets away with a great many Boucicault is a great smoker Ive smoked a cigar of his that was four teen years old < An Engli hman always likes a dry cigar i They Import hem in large zinc lined chests Theres the Duke of Beau fort for instance he gets just the same number of cigars each year He never begins till after Dinner however when he starts with a cigarette 5518 or a mild cigar and then smokes four or five cigars top ping of with the strongest Boucicault has hIS cigars an airtight closet built expressly The Prince of Wales smokes cigars beginning generally with a cigarette They say Gladstone smokes a pipe but I didnt see him do it when I was at Hawarden Tennyson smokes a pipe and may be seen lounging about his grounds any time with a cutty between his teeth The Marquis of Hartington holds up his end of the Liberal ministry by smoking good cigars Henry Irving smokes cigars and a good many All fishermen smoke generally pipes T u I think a pipe the nicest thing in the woods or m a canoea good clean briarwood briar-wood with Lone Jack mixed with one third its quantity of Perique Its an in dication of a good stomach to be able to smoke before breakfast Sothern used to smoke while he was dressing and riding across country to hounds Gentlemen often do this in England some using cigars and others the short vestpocket pipe Southern was very fond of hunting hunt-ing and at one time kept eight hunters himself Good sailors all smoke as a rule A man who smokes at sea generally keeps a quiet stomach How are journalists in this respect so far as you have noticed 1 I think most newspaper men smoke pipes in their own offices Stilson Hutchins dont smoke at all however Ramsdell smokes a pipe Neither Joe Howard nor Willy Winter smokes Inever saw either Joe or Albert Pulitzer smoke James Gordon Bennett smokes cigars and cigarettes both and a great deal Mr Dana looks like a man who indulges in a quiet pipe He likes a good dinner for Ive sat at the table next to him Mr Hurlbut formerly of the World and Mr Dana are typical bon vivants I smoke a pipe always on the Resti gouche After a good days fishing I give our Indians a handful of my smoking smok-ing mixture They have a square of navy plug every two days They are of the MicMac tribe descended as was suggested sug-gested by a visitor from Irish and Scotch immigrants possibly |