TOBACCO LEAVES 



LEARN to smoke slow. The other grace 

 is to keep your smoke from other people's 

 faces. Punch. 



tj u rr 



AT the battle of Minden, where the 

 French were signally defeated, the grena- 

 diers of France were exposed to the fire of 

 a battery, which made terrible havoc in 

 their ranks. M. de Saint-Pern, who com- 

 manded them, tried to make them as pa- 

 tient as he knew them to be brave. He 

 therefore made his horse go up and down 

 in front of them at the very slowest pace, 

 as if he were coolly training it. His 

 snuff-box he held in his hand, and from 

 time to time he took a pinch with the 

 greatest deliberation. Seeing the grena- 

 diers startled and alarmed by murderous 

 crash on crash, he said to them : " What 

 is the matter, my children? Do the can- 

 non-balls disturb you? Doubtless they 

 kill; but that is all." 



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