Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-05-16
AN ARMY OF PUFFERS.
Billy Florence on Smokers OF the
Present Day.

Present Day.
Now, your Turk smokes and drinks
.offee, the one an antidote for the other, |
aid captain Cutie" as he entered the
dressing room to don the every day
hab,liments of William J. Florence.
Several gentlemen had been discussing
the public idea that General Grants
illness was due to excessive m
diligence in tobacco. Mr.. Florence was
asked what he knew about the habits OF
actors in this respect.
Edwin Booth" said he sis an invet-
crate pipe smoker. saw him during
the war with pipe which was his con-
slant companion. He often smokes in
the morning while dressing, and prefer
Fruits and Flowers John Mccullough
smokes cigars-mild ones-and> perhaps
too many. He smokes cigar the hrst
thing in the morning, and always good
one. Poor Ned Sothern would get rid
of 100 cigars a week He always showed
one On a visitor, with brandy and water
sometimes, and filled his own overcoat
pockets when he went out. He was
fearful smoker, always had one in his
mouth, burning it half way, and then
lighting fresh weed. He and | i'm
ported our own cigars from the Raphael
Dlaz plantation, in Cha, at a cost OF
1920 a thousand. The plantation seems
To have given out now. For my part l
like a Colorado or Colorado Claro.
LARRY BARRETT
smokes a mild cigar. Sheridan smokes
too he's been soldier-captain in the
Sixth Ohio. Nat Goodwin smokes, and
so does Crane, but l don't know about
Robson. John E. Owens likes a gooc
cigar, and SO does Frank Mayo. 'Shec
Shook is a great smoker. McAuley is
smoker, and Harry Edwards uses stronI
cigars necessarily. Salvini smokes long
black cigars with straw through 'em =
the kind you get in Italy. They Ugh
their weed in that country on a small
iron frame over lamp. The end of th'
weed rests in the fame and burns thirC
of the way down. the lea. drawing ou
The nicotine. King Humbert smoke IL
this way. John Mackay smokes cigar
costing from 80 to 90 cents apiece. anc
gets away with C great many Boucl
cault is a great smoker. I've smoked
cigar of his that was
FOURTEEN YEARS OLD,
An Englishman always likes a dl!
cigar. They import them in large zinc
lined chests. There's the Duke OF Beau
fort for instance, ne gets just the sam'
number of cigars each year. He neve
begins till eiter dinner. however, wher
he starts with cigarette or mild cigar
aud then four or five cigars topping Of
with the strongest. Boucicault hes al
air tight closet, built expressly for hi
cigars.
TIE Prince of Wales smokes cigar
beginning generally with a cigarette
The Dake o. Manchester comes in tn,
same category. Lord Vaudeville Use
two or three packages Of cigarettes day
They say Gladstone smokes pipe, but
Didn't see him do it when 1 was a
Hawarden. Tennyson smokes a pipe
and may be seen lounging about hi
grounds any time with Guilty between
his teeth. The Marquis of Harrington
holds up his end of the liberal ministr
by smoking good cigars. Henry Irwin
smokes cigars, and a good many. Coul
dock smokes pipe.
"ALL FISHERMEN SMOKE,
generally pipes. think a pipes tn
incest thug in the woods or in a cano
"a good, clean briarwood, with Lon
Jack mixed with Cne-third its quantit
of Perique. It's an indication of goo
stomach to be able to smoke before breal
fast. Sothern used to smoke while b
was dressing and riding across the c0ur
try to hounds. Gentlemen often do tn
in England, some using cigars and othel
the short vest pocket pipe. Sothern W;
very fond of hunting, and at one tin
kept eight hunters himself.
Good sailors all smoke as a rule.
man who smokes at sea generally keel
quiet stomach.
THEATRICAL MANAGES
smoke generally, think, though l belle,
Lester Wallack does not. John I. Ra
mond doesn't use tobacco at all. Bar
ley Campbell never smokes. Acto
don't chew generally. It's nasty pra
tice. don't think many of them smol
cigarettes, eithpr-that is, not GOO
actors, although John Sleeper Clarke
among the exceptions"
what about other public men?"
"Tom Murphy, General Grants frien
always has cigar in his mouth, gene
ally unlighted. President Arthur smok
cigars, but never during Office or busine
hours. His favorite ia the Persecto.
have known every president since Pier
except Garfield. They I'll, l belize
moked cigars. / made
clEvELANp's ACQUAINTANCE
the night before his election, when NJ
Florence and were PLAYING in Buffa
President Lincoln would often slip in
the corner of box when Mrs. Floren
and were playing in Washington, re
with laughter for while, and then
quietly out without peoples knowing
had been in the house.
TON Ochiitree smokes like. hou
afre, and smokes good cigars, too Is
Tom nearly drowned once. Uncle Rui
uotnh nd Il h,o onht The Do.
lutte, off the Battery, waiting Tor Och
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