Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1906-03-08
SOME MARVELLOUS
SMOKING RECORDS
Thomas Edison Holds a High
Record as Consumer
Of Cigars.
A VERSUS S D
Prince Bismarck Was Wont to Beast
That He Had Consumed
Upward Of 100000
Cigars.
From London TIL Fits.

Berlin has recently lost one OF he.
most ardent and m~ethodical devotees
OF the fragrant weed by the death OF
Horn Grunn. whose daily allowance ot
tobacco consisted of six pipes. six CT
gars and six cigarets. This amoun
he never varied. ave on his birthday,
when it was doubled. and on New Year
day, which, on the principle Of start
Ing the year tetnperately. was kept as
a day CT 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 over 100. 600 ci-
sars. a number hat works out at an
average OF five a day-no great feat,
perhaps, for one who was at one per
Tod a chain smoker. lighting Zach ci-
gar from the glowing stump Of the one
lust enjoyed.
Edison. the great inventor. must hold
a superior record. Ten cigars Il day
are his normal allowance, but when
deeply absorbed in work he finds dou-
bile that number necessary to stimulate
hts brain. Even more in a day used
that celebrated singer. Mario, to dis
pose Of: but his day commenced witt
dawn and concluded not until sl:s.E
nverpowering him. the still burning iIa-
vana slipped from his lips.
Without a cigar was Edwin Booth
the ~tragedian, scarcely ever SEEN. Ever
while engaged OF his professional du-
ties his beloved weed was present II
the wings, ready to be snatched from
his dresser's hand for enjoyment dur
Ing the sometimes exc ~edingly brief in
tervals between his exits and en-.
ance Twenty-Five cigars a day were
Ut one time his usual a~llowance-an
allowance, how ever, not tnrreQuentl
exceeded.
To revert to ordinary folk. BY 9
steady average OF fourteen cigars q
hay William Pattison. of Michigan,
managed In twenty years to account
for 10000 excellent weeds. a number
iha. drew upon him the eXpostulatiol
- his friends on the ground that sucl
excess was ~prejudicial to long life, t.
which he opposed the fact that Goethe
though he drank 10000 bottles of wine
svcd to be SO. So he smoked on UNI
toieerne9ly and died at the age OF SO
Three years since. at Vienna. there
died in his s~eVenty-third year an ole
Clan beside whose smoking record that
Of William Pattison appears quite IN;
Iignificant. From his twenty-seventb
gear he kept an exact account OF nv
consumption OF beer and tobacco 1p
i:s ffty-1ourth year he became q tee,
~totaler. after having drunk S,lSi
iiasses of ale--a Very moderate tally,
.orsing out at cat three Il day. Bu1
y Is OF ms ~ilttlOuefate SmOklnS. WHICH
lie continued till his death, that We
Lave to speak.
III forty-tive years he smoked no few,
or han 6GS, .l3 cigars. or 1891 a year
living An average of thirty-eight a day.
out OF this gigantic total 43, 500 Vert
EiNen hin at various times. leavina
\@.alS. which, although this Austrian
.leHotec at the shrine of My Lady
Nicotine never paid more than .
pehny for each one. cost nearly SO, 500,
But ever this marvellous record Is
beaten by that of Mynheer Van Klaes
t:nown by the nickname of the King
nf the Smokers" He was eighty-ons
vt the time of his decease, and some.
times smoked as much as ten pounds OF
tobacco III a week. How strong with
t,in, was the ruling passion in death
nHs shown by his funeral.
AT his express desire he was placed
In > coffin lined with the wood of old
.iSat boxes AT his feet were deposited
~ packet of "Caporal" and a bladder OF
ne Dutch golden leaf, while by his sids
M"ie laid his %favorite china bowled
pipe. a o of matches. flint, steel and
Under. Arou his grave wa gathered
:, circle of Rotterdam smokers, each
with his pipe. from which at the words.
'ashes to ashes. dust to dust" he shooH
~" ashes onto the coffin lid TO each
these m%ournsrs the deceased left ter
sounds of tobacco and two pipes bear,
sl.' his arms