Smoking In America And England

Chicago Journal. "One of the features of America street lite that strikes an Englishman on first arrivina here most forcibly," said a young Londoner, whose acquaintance I made at the Palmer House au evening or to ago, "is the abundance of cigars. I was öimply astounded to observe, on uiy arrival here, teamsters, porters, cabmen, aye, even peddlers with hand-carts, smokina cigars. In Englaud, you know, where cigars cost just as much as they do here, a man who never smokes anything on the street but a cigar Í3 looked upon as Rn epicure, and, ïf lie is not a gentleman of landed property, is reparded as a very extravagant fellovv. What do we smoke? Wliy, Eipes, of course. I know fellows - ondon fellows, too - who are worth all the way from L100 to L1,000 a year, who are invetérate smokere, and who yefc reeard cigars with about as much reverence as you do diainonda, no doubt. The most extravagant of them smoke two ciuars at 3d, or 6c, apieceper day. No; I must say that the princely extravagance of the American smoker, who, though he may be too poor to buy himself a warm overcoat when the cold winds come.will stilt scorn to smoke a pipe on the street, floors me. In London, if a costermonger or a cabman appeared araong his comrads with a Ilghted cigar in his mouth, he would be hooted from one end of the street to the other for endeavoring to assume the luxury his circumstancea in life did not entitle him to."