A Warning to Snuff Takers

Lately a gentleman traveling through England entered a first class carriage, where he found a person comfortably scaled, who soon entered into conversation, and civilly offered his new acquaintance a pinch of snuff, which was accepted, but had no sooner entered his nostrils that it produced the effect of a powerful narcotic, of which the weary traveler soon took advantage by relieving his companion of three thousand francs in bank notes, three thousand francs in other money, besides his watch, chain and ring, with which valuables, it is needless to say, he escaped undetected

- Published in The Union Sentinel, Osceola, Iowa, May 14, 1864