Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-08
REMARKABLE RECORD.
Made by Man Who Smoked 62S,713
Cigars in Forty-Five Years.
From Tit Bits

From ut BIS.
Berlin has recently lost one of her most
ardent and methodical devotees of the
fragrant weed by the death of Herr
Grunn whose daily allowance of tobacco
consisted of six cigars, six pipes and six
cigarettes This amount he never varied,
save on his birthday, when it was doubled
and on New Year day. which, on the prin-
cple of starting the year temporarily, was
kent as a day Of total abstinence.
Love of tobacco and wisdom often go
together Prince Bismarck was wont to
boast that he had in something like nifty
years consumed 100000 cigars, numper
which works out an average or hNe DAY
no great feat, perhaps, Tor one VINO mas
been at one period a Chain" smoker, light
ing each cigar from the glowing stump OF
the one just enjoyed
Edison, the great inventor. must hold a
superior record. Ten cigars a day are his
normal allowance, but when deeply an
sorbed in work he finds double that num-
Der necessary to stimulate his pra1h- Even
more in q day used that celebrated singer
Mario. to dispose of, but his day com
menced with dawn and concluded not un,
til. sleep overpowering him. tne SUN
burning Havana slipped from ms Ups -,
without a cigar was EDWIN Bootl, the
+ragadian scarcely seen. Even while en-
gagged on his professional duties nus pc
loved weed was present IN the "Ihss
roa6v to be snatched from his dresser $
hand for enjoyment during the sometimes
n ninaad iU, brief intervals between his
exits and entrances Iwen.y-nuT 1ie d .
q day were at one time ms usual any 49, -
sn allowance, however. not infrequentIs
exceeded. -, D. - .ta,dv
To revert to ordinary folk BY STEADY
average of fourteen cigars day Nllllam
Pattison of Michigan managed, II. ,w 'aaIs
years to account for 100000 excellent weeds
a number that drew upon him the expostu-
lation of his friends on the ground that
such excess was prejudiclal 10 long me, "
Zoo naf
inch he drank 10000 bottles of wine,
lived to be elghty-three. So he smoked on
unconcernedly, and died at the age OF
eighty-nlne. -, sto.z
Three years since, at Vienna, there dled
In his seventy-third year an old man be
side whose smoking record that or Wllllahl
Pattison appears quite fnsignlhcant' FROM
his twenty-seventh year he Kept an exact
account of his consumption of beer and to-
bacco In his fftyfourth year he became
a teetotaller, after having drunk %, $50
glasses of ale-a very moderate tally. work
ing out at but three day But II is OF ms
n,moderate smoking which he continued
till his DEATH that we have to speak.
In forty-five years he smoked no fewer
than ,713 cigars, or 1871 year, giving
an average of thirty-eight a day Out OF
this gigantic total 43, 500 were given him at
various times. leaving 5S5,2E3, which, al
though this Austrian devotee at the shrine
of my Lady Nicotine" never paid more
than a penny for each one, cost nearly
e.. 500.
But even this marvellous record is beaten
by that of Mynheer Van Klaes. known by
the nickname of the King of Smokers"
He was eighty-one at the time of his death.
and sometimes smoked as much as ten
pounds of tobacco in a week. How strong
with him was the ruling passion in death
was shown by his funeral.
At his express desire he was placed in a
coffin lined with the wood of old cigar
boxes. AT his feet were deposited packet
of "Caporal'' and bladder of fine Dutch
golden leaf while al his side We're laid his
favorite china bowled pipe. box of matches,
flint. steel and finder. Around his grave
was gathered a circle of Rotterdam smok-
ers, each with his pipe, from which at the
words Ashes to ashes. dust to dust he
shook the ashes onto the coffin lid. To each
of these mourners the deceased left ten
pounds of tobacco and two pipes bearing his
arms.