When Chewing was Illegal. The Stonlngton correspondent of Tlie Xvruicli HuUctin lias a German silver tobacco box that has pasted In the Inside of tlie bottom the "Code of the earliest laws and orders of the general court of ConncctlcutlulKSS 39 against the use of tobacco." On the inside of the Hd is the picture of aconstable arresting a man for chewing chew-ing tobacco. Said constable has on a sort of Continental liat, and, after placing tho hand or arrvt on the chewer's shoulder, ho remarked, "Chaw tobacco, will you?" Just a little way off Is to be seen tho constable's con-stable's family, the wife, four small children and a dog. Ono of the urchins thus remarked: "Ma, dad has catched a man chawing to-backo: to-backo: The mother replies: "He will have his deserts, my child." This was probably a couple of cent-uriesagp, cent-uriesagp, aud yet man hath "chawed "chaw-ed tobaefco" ever since.