[13] Lord Stanhope makes the following curious estimate:——“Every professed, inveterate, and incurable snuff-taker, at a moderate computation, takes one pinch in ten minutes. Every pinch, with the agreeable ceremony of blowing and wiping the nose, and other incidental circumstances, consumes a minute and a half. One minute and a half out of every ten, allowing sixteen hours to a snuff-taking day, amounts to two hours and twenty minutes out of every natural day, or one day out of every ten. One day out of every ten amounts to thirty-six days and a half in the year; hence, if we suppose the practice to be persisted in for forty years, two entire years of the snuff-taker’s life will be dedicated to tickling his nose, and two more to blowing it.” The expense of snuff, snuff-boxes, and handkerchiefs, is also alluded to; and it is calculated that “by a proper application of the time and money thus lost to the public, a fund might be constituted for the discharge of the national debt.” [14] Curiosities of Food, by P. L. Simmonds. Bentley, 1859. [15] Tobacco entered for home consumption— 1856 1857 1858 32,579,166 lbs. 32,851,365 lbs. 34,110,850 lbs. Total 99,541,381 lbs.—or 44,438 tons. [16] Tea entered for home consumption in— 1856 1857 1858 63,295,643 lbs. 69,159,640 lbs. 73,217,483 lbs. [17] _Mesembryanthemum tortuosum_, Linn. [18] _Rhus typhina._ [19] “The tree Tooba that stands in Paradise, in the palace of Mahomet.”——_Sale._ “Tooba signifies beatitude or eternal happiness.”——_D’Herbelot._ [20] See Table XV. in the Appendix. [21] Dr. Hobson states, in an official communication to the Government, “I do not know of any mortal disease from opium corresponding to _delirium tremens_ from alcohol. I have never been called to attend to any accidents resulting from opium similar to those occurring so frequently from habits of intoxication from liquor. The opium-smoker, when under the full influence of his delicious drug, brawls and swaggers not in the public streets, like a drunkard, to the annoyance of bystanders, but reposes quietly on his couch, without molesting those around him.” Also Dr. Traill, of Singapore, from his own experience, has not found opium-smoking in any way so powerful a promoter of disease as the habitual use of intoxicating liquors. [22] Dr. Doran says that a salad was so scarce an article during the early part of the last century, that George I. was obliged also to send to Holland to procure a lettuce for his queen. These vegetables must, therefore, have become unpopular before that time, or the cultivation had been for some cause discontinued, otherwise we cannot reconcile this with the fact that lettuces were common enough a century before a George sate upon the English throne. [23] Von Hammer’s History of the Assassins. [24] “Dublin Quarterly Journal of Medical Science.”