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Snuff Taking

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Parent Issue
Day
5
Month
June
Year
1843
Copyright
Public Domain
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Kvoiy profcssed. invetera.e, and incurnb'e snuff tak er, at a nioJerate computación, tnkes one pinch in len :ninutes. Every pinch wiïh the agreeable ceremony of blowing and wiping ihc nose, and other incidental circumstances. con. sunes a minute and a half. One minute and a halfout of every ten, nllowing sixteen hours to ] a snuff taking day, amounts to two hours and twenty four minutes ou; ot every natural day. or one day out of ten. Ono day out of every len amounts to thirty six days and a half in a year. Henee if we suppoee the prnctice to be persistod in forty years, two eniire yeara of the snuff-iaker's üfe will be dedicated to tickling his nose, and two more to blowing it. The expense of snuff, sn ift'-boxes.. and handkercliiefs, will be the subject of a second essay, in which it will appenr that this luxury encronches as muih onthe income of the snutf-taker as it does on his time: and that by proper applicntion of the time nnd money thus lost to the public, a fund tnigh.l I be constituted for the discharHe of the national

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Subjects
Signal of Liberty
Old News