The kirk is disturbed wi' his hauchin and sneezin', The domime stoppit when leadin' the psalm; The minister, deav'd out o' logic and reason, Pours gall in the lugs that are gapin' for balm. The auld folks look surly, the young chaps jocose, While the bodie himsel' is bambazed wi' his nose. He scrimps the auld wife baith in garnal and caddy; He snuffs what wad keep her in comfort and ease; Rapee, Lundyfitt, Prince's Mixture, and Taddy, She looks upon them as the warst o' her faes. And we'll ne'er see an end o' her Rooshian war While the auld carle's nose is upheld like a Czar." Charles and Mary Lamb both enjoyed snuff, and doubtless felt its use assisted them in their literary labours. Here is a picture drawn by Mary of the pair as they were penning their "Tales from Shakespeare," sitting together at the same table. "Like a literary Darby and Joan," she says, "I taking snuff, and he groaning all the while, and saying he can make nothing of it, till he has finished, when he finds he has made something of it." Sterne was a snuff-taker, and when his wife was about to join him in Paris in 1762, he wrote a letter in which he said:--"You will find good tea upon the road from York to Dover; only bring a little to carry you from Calais to Paris. Give the custom-house officer what I told you. At Calais give more, if you have much Scotch snuff; but as tobacco is good here, you had best bring a Scotch mull and make it yourself; that is, order your valet to manufacture it, 'twill keep him out of mischief." In another letter he says:--"You must be cautious about Scotch snuff; take half a pound in your pocket, and make Lyd do the same." Sir Joshua Reynolds is described as taking snuff profusely. It is related that he powdered his waistcoat, let it fall in heaps upon the carpet, and even upon his palette, and it thus became mixed with his pigments and transferred to his pictures. Gibbon was a confirmed snuff-taker. In one of his letters he relates how he took snuff. "I drew my snuff-box," he said, "rapp'd it, took snuff twice, and continued my discourse, in my usual attitude of my body bent forwards, and my forefinger stretched out." Offering a pinch of snuff has always been regarded as a mark of civility, but there are some men who could not tolerate the practice. Frederick the Great, for example, disliked others to take snuff from his box. He was lying in the adjoining room to one where he had left his box, and his page helped himself to a pinch from it. He was detected, and Frederick said, "Put that box in your pocket; it is too small for both of us." George II. liked to have his box for his own exclusive use, and when a gentleman at a masquerade helped himself to a pinch, the King in great anger threw away the box. State Lotteries.