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BISMARCK diet of eggs, of which he partook in many styles—scrambled, fried, and in omelettes—consuming at breakfast a prodigious quantity, which measured in dozens might stagger belief. He talked of drinking, of cocktails, and of wines, and told me that his doctor had said that a man might drink, between the ages of twenty and seventy, fifty thousand bottles of champagne without offending the laws of health or the strict rules of temperance! "I may have exceeded that number perhaps, to say nothing of a few other liquors, such as beer and brandy," he confidentially informed me.

We discussed the social problems of England and America. He thought the negro question a very serious matter for America, and did not hesitate to say that the only solution to that would be the re-institution of slavery!