The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-05-25
HOW THEY SMOKE.
Manner in which Our Great
Generals Handle a Cigar.

be an essential TO military success,
but there is curious difference in the
manner in whi,h great generals
handle q cigar. General Grant, Tor
example, who is the greatest smoker
OF the age, uses his rs il he enjoyed
il. He cuts of the tip with his pock-
et-knife, and. once lighted. the cigar
never leaves bis lips until the fire gets
30 close to his mustsche as to SINCE
il, and then he sticks it On a wooden
toothpick and hangs on until the Last
Whit can be drawn. He is connois-
seur in tobacco, and always smokes a
medium strength cigar, which he i'm
ports himself from Havana, He
smokes slowly and deliberately, with
the greatest enjoyment. and believes
that to knock of the ashes spoiIs the
favor of a cigar. He does not use a
great many day. although he is
constantly smoking. A box of fifty
will last him a week or ten days.
General EheEman's habits are the
very reverse. He smokes quite as
constantly as Gan. Grant, but uses
FIVE cigars to Grants one, AMI he is
not particular about the quality. He
knows a good cigar when be tastes it,
but is indiferente whether. he has a
Wheeling stoga or a Reina Victoria
ia his mouth. He smokes as il it was
disagreesble duty to be performed
as rapidly as possible, cheWs the end
that is in his mouth, and bitss it of
in chunks, 80 that his cigar is con-
sumed at one end as il is at the other.
Grant always talks with cigar in
his mouth; Sherman never does. He
lsys 1t down somewhere when be
starts to make remark, iorgets
where he putt, and lights fresh one
when be has finished Whs. be wants
ed to cay. The result is tha. his desk
or the furniture around the room in
which he happens. to be smoking is
usually loaded with several half CON-
sumed stubs. At his headquarters
when he was IN Washington
il was generally the case that these
stubs were to be found in every room
that he frequsuted, and the staff
officers called them "Sherman's old
soldiers"
The general is an ablent.minded
and his csrelessness OF the
iGrms of etiquette is the result OF prs.
rather than Indifference
10 propriety. He has frequently been
EaoWn to borrow 9 cigar to ge. q light
Ind then throw the other mans Cigar
away without regard to consequent
,es.
General Sherman is fond OF tobacco
md enjoys Q quiet smoke. but he
amt do any thing else when he has
cigar in his mouth without losing
lis fire. He breathes through his
1859, and unless he pays strict atten-
ion to the business OF smoking his
'igar goes out every other minute.
The result 10 that the carpet around
ais desk and the cuspidor beside him
re usually ssreWn withshalf-burned
for he generally needs q
'ox fall OF them TOR every cigar he
moksS. I called his attention to the
act the other day and he said: ''Yes,
hats the only extravaganza [ am
,uilty OF. Somehow | never could
,eep my cigar lighted, and if had
me dollar for every match l hsva
wasted | we1li be as rich as Wand n.
lIlt."
1t is interesting to see Grant and
jheridan smoke together, the one az
| ne came by it naturally, and the
ther as il be enjoyed it, but didn't
now how to deit very well. Grant
lever relights cigar, but if he had
'heridan's habit he would use up
Il box ntty ia an hour.
General Butler a.wsys takes what |
. called "cold smoke" he never |
lghts q cigar, but always carries one (
Nth the wrong end in bis mouth |
hrust away down his throat until !
My an inch or 30 is visible. He
oesn't chew it, but rolls hia tongue
round the tobacco as if he enjoyed
be TASTE. When he dictates letters,
peeches, or briefs to his stenographer
10 keeps his cigar in his mouth, tips
Iis chair back, puts his feet on the
able and shuts his eyes. When he
fnishss the dictstion, if be wants
be notes written out at once, he goes
sleep until the stenographsr has
.nished writing, when he wakes up,
igns his name, and goes about other
nslness. he has the happy facility
aat is also attributed 10 De Lssseps.
he famous French engineer, of 60
~ to sleep whenever he desires to.
egardless OF time, place, or circuu.
.anoes. Sleep with him ia a. nauch
matter Of will power as writing, or
or talking, and it is said that
10 can wake himself up whenever he
Iants to. He looks at his watch,
nds that be has fifteen minutes an
coupled, SHUTS his eyes, takes a
Dooze, and wakes up ct the end o.
be time as promptly as il he had sn
larm clock beside him.
Logan smokes by spells. For weeks
e will not light a cigar, and then he
7ill smoke constantly. During the
eriod OF abstinence he usually car
les cigar in his pocket and gnaws
q = chunk to chew, when he feels
re EmOkinp He likSs q r;n. ba,t