Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-04-23
CONGRESSIONAL SMOKERS.
Members of the Lower House who
Are Slaves to the vVeed-aoW Gen.
Sherman Lost Box of Fine Cigars.

Sherman Lost a Box of Fine Cigars.
Mr.. Jennings, the young man who
has kept the cigar stand of the house
of representatives for years, writes
Carp to The Cleveland Leader, tells
me the following about the queer
habits of the mem bers of the lower
house. Says he: Most of the rep
resentatives smoke and they generally
use costly cigars. Cassidy, of Nevada,
always has a cigar Ia his mouth, and
nc smokes st least a dozen q day,
which cost him about 15 cents apiece.
BUdd, of California, smokes about ten
expensive cigars daily. O'Harra, the
cOlOred member from NOrta Carolina,
smokes twelve 10-cent cigars a day,
many of a little better quality.
Haynes, OF New York, has a beautiS
fully colored meerschaum cigar
holder of which he is very proud. Sena-
tor Blackburn always has a cigar
in his mouth, and smokes the
strongest grade. He buys three for
quarter, and will not take a cigar that
is of a ginger bread yellow. Then
there is Belford does not smoke, but
he chews vigorously, and his fayorite
brand is the Gravely plug. He buys
two of these plugs at q time, on the
same principle, [ suppose, that he
uses in drinking. Judge BelfOrd says
he never takes less than two drinks at
a time on account of his innate polite
ness. One drink, he says, makes
him feel like another fellow, and then
he has to take a second to treat that
other fellow" !"
'Deuster, Of Michigan" the young
man went on, rs always after a
change He will come to this counter
and say, i must have a change. Have
you any new brands OF cigarettesy
And then he Will buy three packages
and 60 off and smoke them. Deuster
never smokes anything but cigarettes.
Each package costs him from 10 to Is
cents.
"Gov. Curtin, of Pennsylvania,
always smokes two for quarter, and
he must always have an imported
cigar. He smokes about six day.
He never cuts the end Of cigar off,
He merely bites into 1t with his teeth,
and says he learned the habit IN Cuba,
and that it makes the cigar 3 better
smoker. Houck, of Tennessee, is
cigars by the box, anu they cost him
25 cents for three. Flascock, of Calls
fOrnia, Is the greatest cigarette smoker
Of the house He gets away with
three packs at every days session.
Adams, of New York, is always smok-
ing, and he uses Is cent cigars. Tora
Bayne's cigare cost him 25 cents
apiece, but he is a millionaire and can
N Ton Of
smokes light 10 cent cigars. Phil
Thompson, of Kentucky, is not fond
OF tobacco, and seldom uses 1t. His
favorite is Henry Clay. Leopold
Morse, the millionaire Jew, smokes
imported cigars, and lots of them. His
favorite attitude is with his hards In
his pockets and one of these cigars in
his mouth.
''TOm Ochiltree never uses tobacco,
William Walter Phelps does not
smoke, and Perry Belmont neither
smokes nor chews Ben LIE Fevre
cheNs constantly Regan, of Texas,
likes good fne-cut, and Speaker Car
Isle is fond of the chewing tobacco
known as peach blossom.
''ROsecrans used to smoke q great
deal, but he has practically sworn eff.
He only smokes now and then, and
when he does it is mild cigar. He
is changable IN his taste, and about a
year ago he was very fond of Wheel
ing stogies. Oscar Turner is very
particular as to what he smokes. He
wants imported cigars with q Con
necticut wrapping. Col. Frank Wal
ford, of KentHcky, cares more for
oranges than tobacco, but he some-
times chews. Old Judge Poland &C
casionally smokes a mild cigar
but Judge Kelly neither ehews nor
smokes.
Dave Paige, OF Ohio is a great
smoker, and he uses the best brand of
cigars. He has an especial good way
of keeping his cigars, which he gener-
ally buys by the box. He has tin
box about the size of a cigar-box. He
gets a box of cigar, puts them into
this and then lays a piece OF soft pa
per over the top of them. He next
vets a piece of blotting- paper lets. the
water drip off of it, and lays this on
the top of the other. He then closes
the lid and puts the box in the cellar.
When he wants to use them he takes
off the top layer and gets at those be-
meath. This keeps the cigars moist
and fresh, and Paige never has yet
offered friend dry or a poor cigar.
He learned the scheme, he says, from
one of the most noted cigar makers
of New York, man who made q mil
lion out of tobacco, and who is thor
/ oughly posted on it.
'Arnott, of New York, is another
great smoker. He buys his cigars by
the thousand, and always has the
finest. He is worth about SO, 600, 600
and he,coulo smoke bank notes ana not
make himself bankrupt
Gen. Sherman was Rot much of a
smoker during the war He liked to
chew cigar up but did not smoke it
down to the stub. Col. 4. H Mark
land tells me the following story how
he once smoked up a box Of fine cigars
which were intended as a present for
Sherman. He says Sherman never
heard of II. and that he will be sur