The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1885-03-23
sLAvRs OLE THE WEED.
WeII-KDOwn Men. VINO, Like a.
ernI Grant. Enjoy n Good Cigar

WefI-KDOwn Men, VINO, Like Gen.
eral Grant, Enjoy n Good cigar.
Edwin Booth" said Captain Cutie,
he entered his dressing-room to don tho
every day habiliments of William J.. Flor
cnce, "is an invctersto pipe smoker. saw
him during the war with pipe, which he
still uses, heavy meerscbaum, which was
bis constant companion He often smokes
in the morning while dressing, aud prefers
Fruits and Flowers. John Mccullough
smokes cigars, mild ones aud perhaps too
many He smokes cigar tho first thing In
the morning and always good one. Poor
Ned Sothern would get rid Of hundred
cigars week. He always showed one on o
visitor, with brandy and water sometimes,
and hllod his own overcoat pockets when
he went ont. He was fearful smoker and
always had one ia his mouth burning it
half way and then lighting a fresh weed.
Ho and imported our own cigars from the
Raphael Diaa plantation, in Cuba, at cost
of 800 q thousand. The plantation seems to
have given out now. For my part, l like
Colorado or a Colorado Claro.
Larry Barrett smokes u mild cigar.
Sheridan smokes, too nos been a soldier
captain in tho 60 Ohio Nat Good win
smokes aud so does Crane, but don't know
about Robson. John Il. Owens likes good
cigar, aud so does Frank Mayo. Shed
Shook is great smoker. Barney McAuley
Is smoker, and Harry Edwards uses
strong cigars incessantly. Salvni smokes
long black cigars, with straw through en-
the kind you get In Italy. They light
their weeds in that country on small
iron frame over lamp. The end of the
weed rests in the flame aud burns third
Of the way down, the heat drawing out the
nicotine. King Humbert smokes in this
way John Mackay smokes cigars costing
from 30 to so cents apiece, and gets away
with great many. Boucicault is great
smoker. I've smoked a cigar of his that
was fourteen years old.
IAN Englishman always likes a dry cigar;
they import them in large zinc-lined chests.
There's the Duke of Beaufort, for instance,
he gets just tho same number Of cigars each
year. He never begins until after dinner,
however, when he starts with cigarette or
mild cigar, and then smokes four or five
cigars, topping off with tho strongest.
Boucicault has an air-tight closet, built ex-
pressly for his cigars.
"The Prince of Wales smokes cigars be-
ginning generally with a cigarette. Tho
Duke of Manchester comes in the same
category. Lord Aylesford was great
smoker. Lord Vaudeville uses two or
three packages of cigarettes day. They
say Gladstone smokes pipe, but | didn't
see him do 1t when l was at Hawarden.
Tennyson smokes pipe, and may DO seen
louDging around his grounds any time with
Guilty between his teeth The Marquis
of Harrington holds up his end of the
Liberal Ministry by smoking good cigars.
Henry Irving smokes cigars, and good
many. COuldook smokes pipe.
Theatrical managers smoke generally, /
think, though / believe Lester Walaek
does not. John L. Raymond doesn't use to-
bacco at all. BARLEY Campbell never
smokes. Actors don't chew generally
don't think many of them smoke cigarettes,
either, that is, not good actors, although
John Sleeper Clark is among tho exceptions.
Tom Murphy, General Grants friend
always has q cigar in his mouth, generally
unlighted. / have known every Prosdent
since Pierce except Garfield. They all,
believe smoked cigars. | mado Clevelaud's
acquaintance tho night before the election,
when Mrs. Florence and were playing in
| Buffalo. President Lincoln would often
| slip into tho corner of box when Mrs.
| Florence and i were playing in Washing
| ton, roar with laughter for awhile and then
| go quietly out without people knowing he
| had been in the house.
Tom Ochiltree smokes like house afro,
and smokes good cigars, too. | saw Tom
| nearly drowned once. Uncle Rufus Hatch
and / were on his yacht, the Resolute, OFF
| the Battery, waiting for Ochitree and
| Major Jack Wharton to come abroad. Tom
fell overheard as they were coming out to
| us in small boat, and in tho confusion
| he and Wharton were nearly drowned.
When they got aboard Wharton asked me
| if didn't hear tho water sizz when Toms
head struck it. Poor Wharton, he was on
A Mol fellow.
General Singleton smokes pipe. Harry
Watterson smokes his cigars so short they
burn his mustache, Sam Ward was great
| smoker.
81 think most newspaper men smoke
| pipes in their own offices. Stilson Hutchins
doesn't smoke ut all, however. Ramsdell
smokes a pipe. Neither Joe Howard nor vii.
lie Winter smokes. Inever saw either Joe OF
Albert Pulitzer smoke. james Gordon Ben.
nett smokes cigars and cigarettes both, and
great deal. Mr.. Dana looks like man who
INDUCES in quiet pipe. He likes good
dinner, for I've sat at the table next to him
Mr.. Hurlburt, formerly of the World, aud
Mr.. Dana are typical bon uirdats. - Cincin'
natl Commercial. Gazette.