Life of Johnson.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20331, 14 June 1934, Page 8

Life of Johnson.

* ‘ VVE then went to Sans-terre, a brewer. He brews with about as much malt as Mr Thrale, and sells his beer at the same price, though he pays no duty for malt, and little more than half as much for beer. Beer is sold retail at 6d a bottle. He brews *IOOO barrels a year. There are seventeen brewers in Paris, of whom none is supposed to brew more than he:—reckoning them at 3000 each, they make 51,000 a year. —They make their malt, fer malting is here no trade.”

" October 10. Tuesday. We saw the ‘ Ecole Militaire,’ in which one hundred and fifty voung boys are educated for the armv. They have arms of different sizes, according to the age;—flints of wood. The building is very large, but nothing fine, except the council-room. The French have large *-squares in the windows;—they make good iron palisades. Their meals are gross.”

Johnson's laugh was as remarkable as any circumstance in his manner. It was a kind of good humoured growl. Tom Davies described it drolly enough: “lie laughs like a rhinoceros.”