The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-08
From TOit-Bits.

N ERLIN has recently lost one of her B0 most ardent and methodical de- h voices of the fragrant weed by the death of Herr Grunn. whose daily allowance of tobacco consisted of six pipes, six cigars and six cigarettes. This amount he never varied, save on his birthday, when 1t was doubled, and on New Years Day, which. on the principle of starting the year temperately. was kept as day of total abstinence.
 Love of tobacco and wisdom often go together. Prince Bismarck was wont to boast that he had in something like fifty years consumed more than one hundred thousand cigars, number that works out at an average of five a day-no great feat perhaps. for one who was at one period a "chain" smoker, lighting each cigar from the glowing stump of the just enjoyed.
 Edison, the great inventor, must hold superior record. Ten cigars day are his normal allowance, but when deeply ab- sorbed in work he finds double that num- ber necessary to stimulate his brain Even more in day used that celebrated singer. Maiio, to dispose of; but his day ccnlm reed with dawn and concll iicd not '.r til. sleep overpowering him, the still burning Havana slipped from his lips
 Without cigar was Edwin Booth, the tragedian, scarcely ever seen. Even While engaged on his professional duties his beloved weed was present In the wings ready to be snatched from his dresser's 8 hand for enjoyment during the sometimes exceedingly brief intervals between his exits and entrances. Twenty-Five cigars a day were at one time his usual allow ance-an allowance, however. not infre- quently exceeded.
 To revert to ordinary folk. By steady average of fourteen cigars day Will Ham Pattison of Michigan managed in twenty years to account for 100000 excel lent weeds, number that drew upon him the expostulation of his friends, on the ground that such excess was prejudical to long life; to which he opposed the fact that Goethe. though he drank 10000 bot ties of wine, lived to be eighty-three So he smoked on unconcernedly. and died a. the age of eighty-nine.
 Three years ago, at Vienna, there died in his seventy-third year a man beside whose smoking record that of William Pattison appears quite insignificant. From his twenty-seventh year he kept an exact account of his consumption of beer and tobacco In his fifty-fourth year he became teetotaller, after having drunk 2s,7Ss glasses of ale-a very moderate tally, working out at but three day. But 1t is of his immoderate smoking, which he continued till his death, that we have to speak,
 In forty-fve years he smoked no fewer than 62S, 7l3 cigars, or 13.971 a year, giving an average of thirty-eight day. out or this gigantic total 4s5Oo were given to him at various times. leaving 5S6.21a, which, although this Austrian devotee to the shrine of My Lady Nicotine" never paid more than penny for each one' coss nearly R2500
 But even this marvellous record IS beat en by that of Mynheer Van Klaes. known bv the nickname of the "King of the Smokers" He was s1 at the time of his decease 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