Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-12-03
TOBACCO AND LIQUORS.
CURIOUS HABITS OF FOREIGNERS IN
REGARD TO THEM.
No Splitting Alphabetically Barmaids
Babies and Wine-The Drinking Places
of Faust Luther, Mozart and Robert
Burns-The American bar, Etc,
Especial Correspondence


Italy make their own tobacco and the smoker
finds as poor cigars in these countries as any.
where else in the world. The French govern
ment gets revenue of S4j 900. 600 a year ont
of its manufacture and sale of tobacco, and
1t has here at Paris a big factory where are
made the most of the cigars used i'm Paris
Here are employed 300 hands, and of these
1900 are females. The best cigar, in France
are those which are imported. The AVERAGE
Frenchman smokes poor cigar and the most
of those sold range from one to three cent.
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 Frenchman on the
street with pipe in his mouth, and cigars
are used here in preference to pines.
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
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 viror-
ously The pipe used in England is the
short s.emmed briar wood pipe. There are
few pipes with bent STEMS and nearly every
smoker uses tobacco pouch. The tobacco
used in England is all long cut and even
that imported from America is of this char
acter. \ tobacconist seldom shows you a
case of tobacco of one grade. He hands out
two or three different grades, and mixes
/ them together in the selling Many of the
tobacco stores of Ireland put up their tobacco
for customers in little round packages like a
cigarette package. They do this by means
OF funnel into which they pound the
tobacco, and then slide it out into a round
paper wrapper, the ends 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 a piece of
wax or murilage often takes the place of
Irvine. There is economy in smoking also,
and 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 i'll the shop windows of both London
and Paris
There is little chewing of tobacco in Europe
and l 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 n 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 II call for it before.
The foreign smokers do not spit as we do.
and there is almost an entire absence of spit
toons in the public buildings The hotels of
England all have smoking rooms and these
are generally connected with the office of the
hotel y waiter in 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
bells to call walters, and it is in the smoking
room OF such hotels and not at the bar that the
drinking is done \ great part of the drink
ing of England is done in these smoking
rooms a tap upon bell calls waiter and
the man thus orders his drink. If it be beer
or porter it is brought in a pint cup of plated
silver; if it be wine it is brought in the bot
tie, and whisky comes either in the bottle or
the glass, rs you want it,
The English do not drink whisky as we do
They sit long time before their glass and sip
1t. First 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 it with water, and a water
carafe always accompanies a glass of
whisky, Whisky is seldom given ont in bot
ties The most common drink among hard
drinkers in Great Britain seems to be Yin.
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the price of whisky is perhaps little cheaper
than in America. The English are, however,
rigid as TO measurement of glasses, and the
man who had the dealing out of the liquors
at the Edinburgh exhibition almost lost his
privilege because his whisky measure was not
as large rs the regulation one Whisky is
sold in glasses and half glasses The half
glass costs six cents, Il whole glass about
twelve. y great deal of money is made in
selling liquor abroad, and the milliOnaires of
Dublin have 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 mllionaires in Glasgow
who have become so by monopoies of tie
saloon business, and it is Il 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 pint bottle of beer or wine,
and have seen many drink rs much as a
quart during single meal Coffee and tea
are used at breakfast, and there is "A great
deal of tea drunk in England At u table
dhOte dinner ON the continent there is no tea
drunk, and the water used is always mixed
with wine. Mon, women and children drink
at the table.
The foreigner never thinks Of taking lunch
for picnic or a railroad ride without mclud-
ing bottle of liquor to wash it down. | saw
little baby of years riding with her mother
on Holland railroad train. The mother
had wine bottle, and she offered this fire.
quently to the little one, who put her lips TO
its mouth and drank thus out of the bottle.
During the ride of "A couple of hours this baby
drank, should judge, fully pint of wine
and when her mother at last corked 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
ing wine together on boulevard. The French
drink great deal of absnthe, and they are
also fond of black coffee, which they drink
out of goblets They often mix with this
coffee about a thimbleful of cognac brandy,
and very poor article of brandy is sold in
Paris. For six or ten cents you can get a