The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-01-16
ALTAR OF ROSES.
1t Takes q Thousand Trees to Furnish Two
Ounces of Essence.

l6KeS q Thousand Trees to Furnish TWO
Ounces of Essence.
Rose-water is extensively made in
India. At Ghazipore, in Bengal, there
are hundreds of acres laid out for the
purpose. The harvest is in March and
April, and the result of the distillation
Is to supply about one quart of rose
water from each thousand of the blooms;
but adulteration is very much resorted
to, oil of sandal-wood being the medium,
and the people of India do not seem to
mind much whether they get tho odor
of the rose or the sandal for their money
1t Is comparatively cheap where it is
made, costing two or three shillings a
quart, even when unadulterated.
Otto or altar of roses is much more
important and expensive. The origin of
this condensed perfume is told in one of
the romantic stories of the East. 1t is
said that Noorjehan Begun, the favorite
wife of Jehan-Geer, was walking in her
garden, through which ran stream Of
rosc-water, when she noticed some oily
PARTICLES floating on the surface. She
had them skinned off; and their aroma
was found to be SO delicious, that means
were devised to produce the precious cs-
sence in more regular way.
The method is an extension of that
which is used to produce rose water, but
it takes thousand trees to supply about
two ounces of altar, and it's value is sell
dom less than twenty pounds sterling
At that price, and unauthorized, it is
sold mainly to Europeans, while in a
less pure form it is vended in the native
bazaars. 1t is bought by the Westerns,
however, for manufacturing purposes,
and not to be used in it's pure condition.
London Times.
HARD TO BELIEVE.
A Famous Alchemist Wine Claimed to BE
1,O25 Years Old.
The normal duration of lifo has been
a problem sought for from the most re-
mote ages. Hesiod, Scion, Esculapius,
and Pliny all had their theories, mostly
however, associated with astral influ-
ence. Roger Bacon believed that man
could live one thousand years if he only
knew how to economic his provision of
vital force. Artophius, a famous al
chemist of the twelfth century, who
wrote treatise on the preservation of
life on the credit of his own experience,
claimed to be, at the time of writing his
treatise, in tho 1,o25th year of his age,
and used quietly to settle every disputed
question of ancient history by the ire
fragible plea of personal testimony.
Gualdo, brother of the Red Cross,
and the hermit Trautmansdorf declared
that they had attained, the one 400 years
and the other 40, by imbibing solution
of the philosophic stone. Paracelsus,
whose real name was Bombast Won HO-
henheim, boldly asserted that he had
discovered the incorporation of the vital
spirit and that he could create men in
an alembic, yet nevertheless died in a
hospital at the age of 48. Louis XI. is
said to have drank the blood of children
as a means OF renovation, thus realizing
the tabled vampire.
Descartes, who had had relations with
the Red Cross Knights, considered a
vegetable diet most conducive to long
life. His idea was to eat little and often
of substances eaeily digested. But an
Australian, who will stuff himself like a
Demonstration and sleep q week upon
it, lives as long as those who take only
two or three meals a day.-Medical
Classics.