Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-11-15
TOBACCO AND LIQUORS.
CURIOUS HABITS OF FOREIGNERS IN
REGARD TO THEM.

REGARD TO THEM.
No Splitting Asroaa--Pretty Bartnaids
Babies and Wine-The Drinking Place.
of Faust, Luther, Mozart and Robert
Burns-rhe American Bar, Etc.
Especial correspondence
PARIS, Oct. 21.-There is as much differ
cnce in the tobacco of the different counties
as there is in their manners. France anG
| Italy make their M tobacco and the smoker
finds as poor cigars in these countries as any
where else in the world. The French govern
ment gets a Revenue OF S45, 00o, 900 a year out
of its manufacture and sale of tobacco, and
it has here ut Paris a big factory where are
made the most of the cigars used in Paris.
Here are employed 1900 hands, and of these
1,90Qare females. The best cigars in France
are those which are imported. The average
Frenchman smokes a poor cigar and the most
of those sold range from one to three cents
| each. The French are great smokers of cigar
| cites, and packages of good cigarettes may
be gotten for from sixteen to thirty cents a
package. You never see a Frenchman on the
street with a pipe in his mouth, and cigars
are used here in preference to pipes.
This is different in England, Scotland and
Ireland, where all smoke pipes, and where
| the cigar is the exception. The Englishman
of the better class is not ashamed to smoke
a pipe upon the street, and in the smoking
cars, in the hotels, and, in fact, everywhere,
you may see well dressed men with short
black pipes in their mouths putting vigor-
ously. The pipe used in England is the
short stemmed briar wood pipe. There are
few pipes with bent stems, and nearly every
smoker uses q tobacco pouch. The. tobacco
used in England is oil long cut, and even
that imported from America is of this char
acter. A tobaccenist seldom shows you a
case of tcbaccoof one grade. He hands out
two or three different grades, and mikes
them together in the selling. Many of the
tobacco stores Of Ireland put up their tobacco
for customers in little round packages, like q
cigarette package. They do this by means
of a funnel, into which they pound the
tobacco, and then slide it out into a round
paper wrapper, the end Of which they tuck
In, and thus save the expense of string. Less
string seems to be used in tying up small
packages abroad than with us, and n piece of
wax or mucilage often takes the place of
Irvine. There is economy In smoking also,
and a half used pipe is tucked carefully away
and lighted again. There are many Amer
lean cigarettes sold over Europe, and / saw
the lewd photographs of the factory at Rich
mond in the shop windows of both London
and Paris.
There is little chewing Of Tobacco in Europe,
and / have yet to see the first man splitting
tobacco juice. Many of the largest tobacco
stores keep no chewing tobacco at all, and a
party. Of American friends of mine hunted all
over Antwerp In search for some. They
finally got a piece Of old plug twist, which
WAS so dry that it seemed to have been in the
store for years. The tobacconist who sold it
said he had never had O call for it before.
The foreign smokers do not spit as we do,
and there is almost an entire absence of spit
toons III the public buildings. The hotels of
England all have smoking rooms and these
are generally connected with the office of the
hotel. A waiter in a. swallow tail coat pre-
sides over the smoking room, and it is his
duty to attend to the wants OF the loafers
there. In the larger hotels there are electric
bella to cal walters; and il IL IN the smoking
room OF such hotels and not at the bar that the
drinking Is done. A great part of the drink
ing OF England. is done in these smoking
rooms. A tap upon q bell calls a waiter, and
the man thus orders his drink. If it. be beer
or porter 1t is brought in a pint cup of plated
silver; I!jhbe wine it is brought in the bot
tie, and whisky comes either In the bottle or
the glass, as you want it. w "a
The English do not drink whisky rs we do.
They sit a long time before their glass and sip
1T First n sip, then a smoke, then another
sip and another smoke, until the glass is
empty. They do not drink whisky straight
or pure, but mix 1t with water, and a water
carafe always accompanies a glass of
whisky. Whisky is seldom given out in bot
ties. The most common drink among hard
thinkers in Great Britain seems to be gin,
Scotch and Irish whisky is often drunk. and
the price of whisky is perhaps a little cheaper
thai i'll America. The English are, however.
rigid as to measurement of glasses, and the
man who had the dealing out of the LIQUORS
ut the Edinburgh exhibition almost lost his
privilege because his whisky measure was not
as large as the regulation one. Whisky. is
sold in glasses and half glasses. The half
glass costs six cents, q whole glass about
twelve, a great deal of money is made in
selling liquor abroad, and the millionaires Of
Dublin hive founded their fortunes upon
liquor. The Guinness family, who make the
Stout or porter" are immensely wealthy.
and one of them was made a baron some time
ago. There are also millionaires in Glasgow
who have become so by monopolies of the
saloon business, and 1t Is a queer thing In
Dublin that the two greatest cathedrals there
have been rebuilt out of the profits OF whisky
and porter.
The English drink great quantities Of ale,
stout and beer, and it is the universal custom
abroad to drink at meals. The average man
thinks nothing of a pint bottle of beer or vine.
and i have seen many drink as much as q
quart during a single meal. Coffee and tea
are used Mt breakfast, and there is a great
deal OF tea drunk In England. AT a table
d'hote dinner on the continent there Is no tea
drunk, and the water used is always mixed
with wine. Men, women and children drink
at the table.
The foreigner rever thinks of taking a lunch
for a picnic or q railroad ride without includ-
ing a bottle of liquor to wash it down. I saw
q little baby of Q years riding withhe mother
on a Holland railroad train. The mother
had a wine bottle, and she offered this FIRE.
guently to the little one, who put her lips to
Its mouth II drank thus out OF the bottle.
During the ride OF q couple of hours this baby
drank, should judge, fully a pint of wine,
and when her mother at last corkedt the bottle
she cried for more.
The French are great wine drinkers, and
the poorest man has his bottle of wine with
his dinner. Many of the prices for dinners
in Paris include Wine, and it Is not an uncom-
mon sight to see a family Of Parisians drink
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