Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-11-14
TOBACCO AND LIQUORS.
CURIOUS HABITS OF FOREIGNERS IN
REGARD TO THEM.
No splitting Abroad-Prstty Barmaids.
Babies and wine-The Drinking Places
OF Faust, Luther, Mozart and Robert
Burns-The American Bar, Etc.



finds as poor cigars in these countries as any
where else in the world The French govern
ment gets a revenue Of 81 100. .OUO a year Out
OF its manufacture and sale OF tobacco, and
it has here at Paris big factory where arr
made tie most Of the cigars used in Paris
Here are employed :, ,2o0 hands, and Of these
1900 are females. The hest cigars in France
are those which are imported. The average
Frenchman smokes 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 q
package. You never see French IN On the
street with a pipe in his mouth, and cigar.
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 EnSlishman
Of the better class is not ashamed to smoke
apipo upon the street, and in tho smoking
cars, in the hotels, and, in fact, every whars,
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 a tobacco pouch. The tobacco
used in England Is ali long cut, and even
that imported from America is of this char
acter. A tObacconlst 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
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 mucilage often takes the place of
twine There l. economy In smoking also
and a half used pipe Is IN .ked 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 ia Europe,
and | have vet tn stsa the first man splitting
tobacco juice. Many of the largest tobacco
stores keep no chewing tobacco at all, and
party of American friends Of mine hunted all
over Antwerp in search for some They
finally got piece Of old plug twist, which
was 50 dry that it seemSi to have been IN the
store for years. The tohacconist who sold it
said he had never had 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 A waiter III 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 10 call walters, and it is in the smoking
room of such hotels and not at the lar that the
drinking Is done. A great part Of the drink
ing Of England is done in IheSe 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; as YOU want it.
The English do not drink whisky as we do.
They sit long time before their glass and sip
it. First a sip, then 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 water
carafe always accompanies a glass of |
whisky. Whisky is seldom given out in bot !
ties The most common drink among hard |
drinkers In Great Britain seems to be gin !
Scotch and Irish whisky is often drunk, and |
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 /
al the Edinburgh exhibition almost lost his |
privilege because his whisky measure was not
ss 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 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 baron some time /
ago. There are also miIlionaires in Glasgow |
who have become 50 by monopoIies of tho
saloon business, and it is a 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
abrosd TO drink at meals. The average man
think nothing Of pint hottie Of beer or wine,
and have seen many drink as much as a
quart Turing a single meal. Coffee and tea
are u d at breakfast, and there is a great
1eals tea drunk in England. At a table
dhOt Inner on the continent there is no tea
drunk, and the water used is always mixed
with wine. Men, women and children drink
II the table
The foreigner never thinks of taking lunch
for picnic or a railroad ride without includ-
ng bottle of liquor to wash 1t down saw I
4 little baby Of . years riding with her mother
On a Holland railroad train The mother
had a wine bottle, and she offered this fire.
Iuently 10 the little one, who put her lips to
Is mouth and drank thus out Of the bottle.
During the ride of q couple of hours this baby
frank, should judge, fully pint of wine,
md when her mother at last corked the bottle
ihe cried for more
The French are great wine drinkers and
he poorest man has his bottle Of wine with /
lis dinner Many Of the prices for dinners
n Paris include wine, and il is not an uncum-
non sight % see family Of Parisians drink
ng wine together on a boulevard. The French I
rink great deal Of abslnthe, and they are !
Ilso fond Of black coffee, which they drink I
,ut Of gObletS They often mix with this
'offee about thimhleful of cognac brandy, I
md very poor article Of brandy is sold in
Paris. For six or ten cents you can get a .
Tery nice glass Of coffee with thimbleful Of ;
'randy, and 1t is customary in Paris TO drink
his after big meal while sitting and gossip
ng on the boulevards Brandy and soda 3
trunk largely in England, and soda and
whisky are sometimes mixed There are few
mixed drinks abroad, and treating is not so
ommon as with us. You often see men
rinl1ing alone, and when men wish to drink
4 company with others they go rather TO the
moking room Of hotel than to a bar The
rench drink very little chs-apagne. and 1
ave seen 1t stated somewhere that there Is