Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-04-10

Vice-President Wilson, who never
used tobacco, was stricken almost
| precisely as Mr.. Colfax was. The
late Senator Carpenter frequently
smoked two boxes Of cigars week,
and his sudden collapse was attribut-
ed, by those who did not know how
for twenty-five years he had burned
the candle at both ends, TO that habit.
That Mr.. Carpenter should have
lived to the aye of So after living a
life of almost constant defiance of all
the laws of health is regarded by
those who knew him as remarkable
Siro Delmonico aud Mr.. Ives, a we'll
known manufacturer of New Haven,
died Of perfectly well-defintd symp-
t1ms Of narcotic poisoning, but both
were well along in years, and both
were never without the stimulant.
EX-Presidcnt Arthur smokes less
than formerly, lighting his cigar now
seldom before dinner, but when in
the late night hours he was busted
with work his companion was a
cigar, sometimes three or four. DR..
Hammond is reported to have once
said that generally three or four eli
gars after dinner harmed few men of
average constitution, and Mr.. Arthur
thought they did him good. At all
events, all of his messages to Congress
were written under the gentle stimu-
lus of fragrant Havana. Most of Mr..
Arhurs Cabinet officers were good
smokers. MIR. Frelinghuysen did
not use tobacco. through the Assis-
tant Secretary of State, Mr.. Davis,
liked good cigars, and plenty of than.
Tobacco was the only thing that ever
made Secretary Chandler turn pale.
1t was a rank poison to him, and
though he tried many years ago 10
overcome the evil effects, yet he never
could. Alcohol, except in almost
homeopathic doses of The very best
wine affects the eX-Secretary of the
Navy i'll the same way. But Gen.
Gresham was a great smoker. lie
smoked on the public streets, at his
work, and wherever lie could. Sec-
retary Teller liked cigar that would
last long time and was not very
strong. Secretary Lincoln smokes a
good many pretty stiff cigars every
nay, and Attorney General Brewster
liked one with body to it.
Gen. Sherman is pretty constant
smoker, and he smokes. as he does
everything else with nervous haste,
SO that the cigar is more than half
chewed up. Gen. Sheridan likes a
good black Reina after each meal,
with one or two thrown in between
whilcs.
Nearly all the Senators use tobacco,
some of them constantly. Vice-Pres :
ident Hendricks likes a cigar, bit
he dearly loves the sweet Detroit fine
cut, which he buys in bulk. Perhaps
Senator Fry is the most persistent
smoker of the Senators. 1t there be
a long session If the Senate, h. viii
leave his seat several times in the
course Of il, and retire to the cloak
room for a smoke. In his committee
room and other places of unrestraint
he frequently lights one cigar at the
stub of another. Poker Jack Bowen,
from Colorado, smokes constantly,
aud when he can't smoke lie has a
paper of iine-cut at hand. The two
New Hampshire Senators, Blair and
Pike, do not use tobacco, nor do Sell
ators Dawes and Hoar. The new
Senator, Chace, of Rhode Island, does
not smoke, but Mr.. Edmunds smokes
a few choice cigars a day, and now
and then rolls little pill of navy
plug under his tongue. Both Sena-
tors Hawley and Plat, of Connecticut,
are constant smokers, Gen. Hawley
not disdaining a good old-fashioned
chew. 1t is hardly possible for any
one 10 smoke more, bigger or strong
er cigars than the living skeleton
called Malone does, and his col ieague,
Riddleberger, is an almost constant
smoker. All of the Southern Sena-
tors, except German and Joe Brown,
use tobacco, and most of them use il
in two ways. Jones, Of Florida, is
not particular about the fla, or of his
cigars, and it is standing joke
among the Senators VIII II they get Q
poor cigar TO send it 10 him. lie
smokes it as happily aa though it cost
a dollar. Jones, of Nevada, on Il {
other hand, will smoke none but the
best, and he smokes away with tel
or eleven every day. Beck, aside
from few strong cigars day, likes
to titillate his nostrils with a pinch
of snuff now and then, but lie does
not do it so publicly as Senator Thur
man did. Young Senator Kenna il
a great smoker, and John Logan puff
fiercely at big, black cigars. JohI
Sherman smokes little cigars, ligh
colored, and has them made specially
for him. Ben Harrison likes a pipt
in his Office, but is more often seen oI
the street with cigar than withou
one. Senator Conger likes to smok,
three cigars day. Senator Allison
would rather smoke good cigar ant
bluff out a king fulhthan TO dine a
the most epicurean table. Davit
Davis was a great smoker. Senato
Conkling practically gave up th
habit some years ago, but he occasion
J ally cuts cigar in two and chew
/, the cut ends. Dorsey has been 70
years constant smoker from til
time he arose till he retired. II
. always lights a cigar as soon as h
gets out of bed, sometimes smoking
two or three before breakfast. Blail
Chace, German ANA Camden not onl
use no tobacco, but are total abstain
ers from alcohol in all forms.
Mr.. Randall does not use tobacc
at all, but Speaker Carlisle would b
frantic if he had TO go long withou
quid. lie does not smoke. Hol
+ man chews constantly, but does nc
smoke. Sunset Cox does not use tC
! bacco, nor does A. s. Hewitt, nc
! Gov. Dlngley, but there are very fey
I members of the House who do NJ
smoke or chew, very many practicin
/, both habits. A member of the lowe
+ house, as a general thing, buys
; much cheaper cigar than Senate
two for quarter being considere
q rather expensive, and twenty-fv,
, cent cigar an extravaganza. Three
' for.a-quarter cigars are general
I bought, but there are many shrew