The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-10-11
THE BISMARCK DIET.
Liberties Which the Chancellor Has Taken
With His Constitution.

Liberties Which the Chancellor Has Taken
With His Constitution.
The local delicacies of Pomerania are
indigest;ble and deleterious enough,
but Bismarck appears to have prided
himself in taking exceptional liberties
with his constitution. In talk during
the French war he fondly recalled the
days when he could swallow dozen
of hard-boiled eggs incidentally at a
sitting. During tour of several days
in a .fsch-reich hill country, he lived
entirely on trout and beer, although on
that occasion nature protested and sue
cumbed. Yet it would have been well
had he always stuck to beer; but he had
catholic and cosmopolitan taste in
wines. Once in wine cellar in the
Gironde he tried dozen different vint-
ages, and he used to mix his liquors in
the most outrageous manner. When
Motley was received as a friend OF
the family at Frankfort, in 1856, he
gave graphic account of his en-.
tertainer's housekeeping. cit is one
of those establishments where every
earthly thing that can be eaten
or drank is offered you porter,
saltwater, small beer, champagne,
burgundy or claret are about all the
time. and every body is smoking the
best cigars every minute" During the
invasion of France. although black
Care sat behind his saddle, he at least
had left his doctors behind, and he was
inclined to abuse his liberty. He pro-
fessed to live by rule, but was constant
ly yielding to temptation. The number
OF his cigars had been strictly limited,
but we remember hearing from his
host at Mayence. where he had spent
several days on his way to Metz, how
he would sit of an evening in summer
house looking down upon the Rhine,
lighting cigar after cigar, slipping
the sparkling Rhine wine and specu-
lating with all his habitual frank
ness on the consequences of the
victories he confidently anticipated.
AS the army advanced beyond the
frontier of Lorraine he laid champagne
under contribution for its choicest
vintages, and when billeted in Baron
Rothschild's chateau of Ferrieres, when
the steward, who kept the key of the
cellars, protested there was nothing in
them better than Gin 0rdinaire, Bis
marck brought him to reason with the
threat of straw halter. The effect was
like that of Moses striking the rock,
except that there came a gush of wine
in place of water. His grateful country
men, in their short-sighted enthusiasm,
did their best to cripple the man at the
wheel. He was like St. Anthony
among the tempting presents that
poured in upon him, save that his in
voluntary ascetism not unfrequently
gave way.-Murray's Magazine.
1t is said that d prominent mer-
chant in Atlanta. Ca, has adopted the
following plan of determining the
price of his chickens. He has four
coOps. In them he has a half inch,
one-inch. an inch and half and
two-inch auger hole. All the chickens
he can squeeze through the first he
sells for ten cents; through the second.
fifteen cents; the third twenty cents
and the fourth twenty-five cents. He
is making money.
"A Canton, O., druggist made his
own fly paper, spread it proudly in his
window and found about 800 flies stuck
on it the first morning. Later in the
day, as he opened the glass door to
take another census of his catch. 800
dies buzzed past his ears in the di-
rection of the white marble female on
the soda fountain. and not fly was
on the paper. A globular-shaped bot
tie in the window had SO focused the
suns rays as to melt all the fias of.