Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-08-07
" Fine-Cut" In London.

/ KNOW of no place unless ii is San
| Francisco which makes more of display
| of its cigar and tobacco stores than
London. We can understand it in the
former place where everybody smokes
and many chew, but here in London,
! where you may pass hundred men on
| the street with not one smoking, the shop
display isa phenomenon. The pipe is
the fayorite, but that is generally smoked
indoors. l presume the reason Lon
| dOners do not smoke on the street is out
of regard for the atmosphere, which al
ready contains about all the smoke il can
stand.
The prices of cigars are lower here
than in America, but the quality is in
ferior. twelve-cent cigar is very high
| priced, and the siX-cent weeds are the
| highest price in general use. In the
small villages it is difficult to find a
| higher-priced cigar than four cents.
| Their people do not use them, and the
transient trade is not sufficient to pay
the keeping -
Chewing tobacco, excepting the plug,
cannot be obtained in all England One
tobaccOnist in London tried to smuggle
some of it here, but, our American chew
| ing tobacco being an adulterated article,
his whole stock was confscated. He
confidently told me there were other
ways of amusing himself less costly and
injurious than smuggling fne-cut tobacco
into England for the edification of travel
ing Americans.
He had brand manufactured in Balti-
more. it was pure fine-cut. 1t was like
chewing fiddle-strings.
There was man named Phillips stay
ing at my hotel. He came from Pennsyl-
inv
chewer Before he left home an English
man told him he could get tobacco and
everything else in London. He didn't
bring any tobacco with him because of
| this information from an English source.
He told me that sea-sickness was a box
at the opera in comparison to the agony
he endured. Had it not been for the
prospect of getting "solace" in London
he would have jumped overheard and
had the company sued by his wife's
father
When he got here and found no to-
bacco his grief was terrible. 1t was like
the Danbury boys ball which fell in a
ditch. 1t knew no bounds. He paraded
the streets like specter out of health.
He chewed bits of cigars, smoking-to-
bacco, and all the ravelings out of every
pocket in which he had ever carried
lODdCCO. ne WOulu ldlk Dy tne 0Our OF
the tobacco he had seen thrown away
because of its being damaged, and dis
tinctly remembered having thrown away
paper of tobacco HIMSELF twenty-five
years ago last March. With equal clear
ness he remembered every occasion he
had emptied his pockets of the tobacco
dust accumulated therein, land" he
shrieked, in burst of remorse, "flung
it away as if it had been so much worth
less sand"
When Schenck, the American Minis
ter, returned to London from hi@journey
home for bride, Phillips went at once
to his house in the almost hopeless hope
of getting a chew-just one little chew,
he said to me.
But Schenck didn't use the weed, and
the poor devil came back almost wild
with disappointment. The next day he
returned to America, solemnly promis-
ing that if Heaven spared his life he
would find that Englishman and kill
him.
And he will keep his word-London
Cor. DdRbuyy Nelcs.