The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-01-15
ABOUT PERFUMES.

Altar of roses is worth 500 an ounce.
The Empress Josephine was fond Of
orange water.
Schiller enjoyed the odor of decayed
apples.
Incense was almost invariably used in
all heather sacrifices.
The principal animal perfumes are
musk, civet and ambergris.
Shakespeare mentions perfumes as in
common use in his time.
The ''Perfumers street" was unearthed
some years ago in Pompeii.
Marie Antoinette preferred Hungary
water to any other kind of perfume.
Perfume have been held in the highest
esteem from the most ancient times.
Perfumes are extensively used in all
Chinese sacrifices and devotional offer
irgs.
Hipppocrates prescribed the oil of
roses as a medicine for several kinds Of
disease.
From the gas tar has been extracted
an Oil identical with that of bitter al
mOnds
Critic considered the oil Of cinnamon
to be a very efficient remedy in all dis
eases Of the head.
Perfumes were extensively used in an
Gent Egypt for the embalmment of dead
bodies
Solomon, in Proverbs 27-9, speaks of a
precious ointment with perfumes that
rejoice the heart.
Nice, for 200 years, has been famous
for its violet extracts and perfumes made
from mignonette.
There are several large factories in the
United States devoted to the manuffac-
ture of rose wafer
Many essential oils used in perfumery
are very valuable Neroli, for instance,
is valued at $50 a pound.
Cannes is famous for the various per-
fumes made there from different flowers
of the rose family.
DR.. johnson was extremely fond of or
ange peel and used to carr it in his
pocket for the sake of it's odor
AT a date, certainly not later than B.
G. 1000, Egyptians used perfumes in the
sacrifices of their gods.
POmades are made of the best and pur-
est fat of the OK. impregnated with any
perfume which may be desirable.
Perfumes were introduced into Spain
by the Arabs. who brought many receipts
for making them from the East.
Napoleon loved perfumes and always
had bottle of rose water or violet water
emptied into his bath tub.
From the offensive fusil oil the skill
of the chemist has been able to extract
the ordos Of several flowers and fruits.
The receipts Of over 300 different oils
and perfumes have been preserved in the
remains of Roman literature
In many OF the perfume factories of
South Europe only the purest olive oil
is used in fixing the perfumes of flowers.
Nearly every known perfume is now
successfully initiated by the sympathetic
process of the chemical laboratory.
Pastilles are waters made to be set on
fire and in the process of burning give
forth the odor of certain plants of flow
erS.
Every sacrifice offered on a Roman
altar was perfumed either with flowers
or with some odor extracted from them.
The United States manufactures ex-
tensively perfumes from wintergreen
sassafras and several other woods and
herbs
Incense is mentioned in A. D. 1876 as
used in Christian churches, the occasion
being the baptism of Clovis Of France.
The original word translated apothe-
cary in the Bible is believed by some
authorities to be better translated By
perfumer.
The 'ssweet incense used on the altar
was made of different substances. each
of which gave forth special perfume.
Perfumes and essences made from
lemon, orange and bergamot long ago
made Sicily famous in the annals Of the
peffumers
The principal European manufactures