Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1897 — Suuff Worth a Million a Pound. [ARTICLE]

Suuff Worth a Million a Pound.

Snuff-takers will be interested to know that some of the richest Chinamen use a snuff that is worth as much as a million dollars a pound. They buy the snuff originally from Portugal, where some of the manufacturers have old-time recipes, and charge from S2OO to SBOO a pound for it on this account. The Chinese value this snuff very highly, preserving }t for years and years in beautiful bottles or jars of pqreelain, jade and agate, some of which are worth as much as SI,OOO. As the legal rate of interest lq China Is 32 per cent., it is not impossible to believe that some of the old snuff in the flowery kingdom is worth (theoretically at least) as much as sl,ooo,ooo.—Pittsburg Dispatch.