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...longer sell its products as cheaply as before the War, and its turnover and profits remained stationary or else declined. In recent months, pipe-smoking has been coming in again, and consequently manufactured tobacco is on the gain. One feature of the tobacco industry sometimes overlooked is the snuff business, which is also gaining in popularity. Little snuff is now inhaled through the nostrils in the old-fashioned way; instead its users, especially male and female mill-hands, rub it on their gums...
...Grandjean took a pinch of snuff-and sneezed. She said her husband remarked: "It is ridiculous to use snuff at your age. Why not leave that for old people?" Retorted she: "So that's what you think?" And, picking up a revolver, she shot her ban man dead. "He made me so mad that I killed him unconsciously," she concluded to the police...
...more than half of the total Federal taxes, $1,315,769,011. ¶Taxes on medicinal liquor and manufacturing alcohol fell from $79,000,000 to $40,000,000 from the previous year. ¶The increased consumption of cigars was 8%; of cigarettes, 33%; of smoking tobacco, 4%; of snuff, 3%; of playing cards...
...Connor (T. P. O'Connor), Father of the House of Commons, was entertained to luncheon by party leaders on the occasion of his 75th birthday. The Speaker, on behalf of the members of Parliament, presented him with an old French gold snuff box filled with snuff and the original of the caricature of himself...
...members?the last surviving Irish Nationalist?who wear their hats in the House and use the snuff provided by the sergeant-at-arms...