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OBITUARY. 
294,444,444—two hundred and ninety-four million cubic 
feet! If piled up 20 feet high, they would cover a farm of 
338 acres; and if laid side by side, the boxes would cover 
very nearly 20,000 acres. Let some boy who reads this, 
estimate how large a village or city would be required to 
furnish store-houses for all these boxes. If a person smoke a 
cigar every 20 minutes, and continue this night and day, it 
would require an army of 2,300 such smokers 6,000 years to 
consume the above; and if each person smoked only 4 cigars 
a day—a pretty fair allowance we should say—it would take 
43,000 smokers 6,000 years—a larger term than the human 
race has existed—to smoke up all the tobacco now produced 
in a single year. Allowing this tobacco unmanufactured to 
cost on the average ten cents a pound, and we have 
400,000,000 of dollars expended every year in producing a 
noxious, deleterious weed. At least one and a half times as 
much more is required to manufacture it into marketable 
form, and dispose of it to the consumer. At the very lowest 
estimate then, the human family expend every year one 
thousand million of dollars in the gratification of an acquired 
habit, or one dollar for every man, woman, and child upon 
the earth ! This sum would build two railroads around the 
earth at a cost of twenty thousand dollars per mile ; or six¬ 
teen railroads from the Atlantic to the Pacific. It would 
build one hundred thousand churches, costing 10,000 dollars 
each; or half a million of school-houses, costing 2,000 dol¬ 
lars each ; or one million of dwellings, costing 1,000 dollars 
each. It would employ one million of preachers and one 
million of teachers, giving each a salary of 300 dollars. It 
would support three and one third millions of young men at 
college, giving each 300 dollars per annum for expenses. We 
leave others to fill out the picture. Is this annual outlay to 
increase or decrease in future? Reader, how much do you 
contribute to this fund? 
OBITUARY. 
Died, on the 17th ult., from erysipelas supervening on 
a wound, Mr. William Adamson, M.R.C.V.S., Aycliffe, 
Durham. His diploma bears date April 16 th, 1851. 
ERRATUM IN NO. 393. 
In the list of subscribers to the Morton testimonial, for YT. G. Taylor 
read W. B. Taylor. 
