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the most valuable and pleasing of “memorials.” Many of 
these testimonials of friendship and regard were of gold and 
silver, and set with diamonds of the finest water. 
Among the anecdotes of celebrated snuff-takers, the fol- 
lowing from White’s “ Life of Swedenborg,” will be new to 
many : 
_, ‘‘Swedenborg took snuff profusely and carelessly; strewing 
it over his papers and the carpet. His manuscripts bear its 
traces to this day. His carpet set those sneezing who shook 
it. One Sunday he desired to have it taken up and beaten. 
Shearsmith objected, ‘Better wait till to-morrow,’ ‘Dat be 
good! dat be good !’ was his answer.” 
We copy the following article on the manufacture of snuff 
from a well-known English journal, “Cope’s Tobacco 
Plant :”— 
. ee snuff is still extensively consumed in this coun- 
try (Great Britain), the mode of its manufacture is very little 
known to those who use it; and there are very few persons 
of even the most inquisitive turn of mind who can say they 
have ever penetrated into the mysterious precincts of a snufi- 
mill. Even those who have been privileged, and have had 
the courage to inspect the interior of such an establishment, 
have come away with very vague notions of what they saw. 
The hollow whirr of the revolving pestles, the hazy atmos- 
phere closely resembling a London fog in November, a phe- 
nomenon which is produced by the innumerable particles of 
tobacco floating about, and cansing the gas to flicker and 
sparkle in a mysterious way, and producing a lively irritation 
-of the mucous membrane, all combine in placing the visitor 
in a state of amusing bewilderment, and he is compelled to 
make a speedy exit, having only had just a running peep at 
the interesting process of snufi-making. It is therefore our 
duty to give a description of a process which will be new to 
a large number of people, and will help to clear up some of 
the obscure theories that a great many more entertain of it. 
“Those persons who have travelled on the Continent, and 
who have noticed on tobacconists’ counters a small machine, 
somewhat like a coffee-mill, which a man works with one 
hand, while he holds a hard-pressed plug of tobacco about a 
pound weight against the revolving grater, and produces, 
snuff while the snuff-taker waits for it, may imagine that 
snuff in England is produced on a somewhat similar small 
