Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-11-14
TOBACCO AND LIQUORS.
CURIOUS HABITS or FOREIGNERS IN
REGARD TO THEM.
No Splitting Abroad-Pretty Barmaids.
Babies and wine-Tho Drinking Places
of Faust, Luther, Mozart and Robert
Burns-The American Bar, Etc.
fsnccIaI Couespondence.l

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cncc ia the tobacco of the different countries
rs there is in their manners. France and
| Itaiy make their own tobacco and the smoker
finds Us poor cigars in these countries as any
wG-rc Else in the world. The French GOVERN
mcas gets = revenue Of S45, 0O0,O 900 a year out
OF is manufacture and sale Of tobacco, and
it hes here at Paris a big factory where are
made the most Of the cigars used in Paris.
Here are employed 2,2oO hands, and Of these
1900 are 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 French an on the
street with a pipe in his mouth, and cigars
arc 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 NAV see well dressed men with short
black pipes in their mouths putting vigor-
ously. The pipe used in England is the
short stcmmed briar wood pipe. There are
few pipes with bent stems, and nearly every
smoker uses a tobacco pouch. The tobacco
used in England is all long cut, and even
that imported from America is of this char
acter. A tobacconist seldom shows you a
case of tobacco of 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 i'll little round packages, like a
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 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 mucilage often takes the place of
wine 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 l 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 a 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 nave smoking rooms, and these
are generally connected with the office Of the
hotel. \ 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
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 i'll these smoking
rooms. 4 tap upon a bell calls a 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, Us YOU van it.
The English do not drink whisky as we do.
They sit a long time before their glass and sip
it. First q sip, then a smoke, then another
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empty. They do not drink whisky straight
or pure, but mix it with water, and a water
carafc always accompanies a glass of
whisky. Whisky is seldom given out i'll bot
ties. The most common drink among hard
drinkers in Great Britain seems to be gin.
I scotch and Irish whisky IS often drunk, and
the price of whisky is perhaps a 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
Us large as the regulation one. Whisky Is
sold in glasses and half glasses. The half
glass costs six cents, a whole glass about
twelve. A great deal Of money is made i'll
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 milliOnaires i'll Glasgow
who have become 50 by mOnopolies of the
saloon business, and it is Il queer thing III
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. Tho average man
thinks nothing Of q pint bottle of beer or wine,
and | have seen many drink rs much rs u
quart during a single meal. Coffee and tea
are used at breakfast, and there is a great
deal of tea drunk in England. At o 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 never thinks of taking q lunch
for u picnic or a railroad ride without includ-
ing 4 bottle of LIQUOR to wash it down. / saw
a little baby Of = years riding with her mother
on 4 Holland railroad train. The mother
had a wine bottle. and she offered this fire.
uucntly 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, l should judge, fully a pint of wine,
and when her mother at last corked the bottle
she cried for more.
The French are great win 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 10 see a family of PariSianS drink
ing wine together on a boulevard. The French
drink a great deal Of abSinthe, AMI 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 i'll
Paris For six or ten cents you can get a
very nice glass Of coffee with a thimbleful OF
brandy, and it is customary in Paris to drink
this after O big meal while sitting and gossip
ing avn the boulevardS Brandy and soda is
drunk largely i'll England, and soda and
whisky are sometimes mixed. There arc few
mixed drinks abroad, and treating is not so
common as with US You often see men
drinking alone, and when men wish to drink
in company with others they go rather to the
smoking room Of q hotel than to a bar. The
French drink very little champagne, and l
have seen it stated somewhere that there is
more champagne drunk in America than in
all France. ClarGt is the most common wine
in France, and many of the richest French
men drink cheap wine.
The beers OF England are much heavier
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