Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-12-03

indeed say that on an examination OF
several thousand flowers he found that
there was q connection between color
and perfume. He finds that of white
flowers IA per cent. gave out agreeable
doors; OF gray ones, IL per cent OF
red, little over per cent. of yell
low, little over per cent; of blue,
4 per cent, and Of green, only per
cent But, further, yellow flowers
contain the largest number with n
disagreeable odor, and the white the
next largest But this analysis is Vi
tiated by the fact thata perfume agree
able to one person may be sickening
10 another. There is no aesthetic
standard Of smells, and there are but
few which all declare to be delightful.
An English manufacturer of perfumes
asserts that he is able to combine
odors 30 as to produce certain effect
and talks Of perfume scale, but this
seems rather commercial than scien-
tifc. II he could really produce an
odor which everybody would recog-
nize, by the combination of different
smell elements, the foundation of
science of smell would he laid.
One remarkable thing about odor is
that the emission of il does not appre-
Gladly diminish the mass of the body
from which il is given of. A grain of
musk may fill a room with odor for
years and weigh as much at the end OF
the time as ii did at the beginning.
It's weight must have been diminished,
for it is impossible to believe that an
effect on our organs Of sense can be
produced without an impact of materi-
al particles from source Of energy,
but the amount of matter dissipated
,-is-iaaaiiAsissl- N ihs. af- m odor$
GUS body.
The sense Of smell is apparently
universal, but stronger in animals
than in man. The lowest orders smell
with their mouths, insects smell with
their hairs, fishes smell in water, and
the acutenes of the power Of smell in
dogs and in savages is we'll known.
Humboldt says that the Peruvian In
dams could tell in the darkest night
whether person approaching was a
European, a negro, or an American
Indian. In those deprived Of the 9th
or senses the power Of Analysing odors
is sometimes abnormally developed.
The Scotch boy, James Mitchell, a
blind deaf mute, could distinguish the
individuals in room into which he
was led. John Mossman, deaf mute
of Parkersburg, W. Va, was able to
locate oil wells with the certainty that
q setter finds cartridges. His nose
brought him fortune of $500, 600 rs
fees for professional smelling lit is
strange that no one has trained a dog
70 point petroleum.. Possibly a dog
might be taught to "stand" a nugget
OF gold in the frozen soil OF Alaska, as
pigs find trufiies in Perigord, for met
ais have q characteristic smell. 1t is
probable that everything gives of a
characteristic effluvium, though our
sense is not delicate enough to detect
the most subtle ones. Some gases,
like hydrogen, have no odor, others,
like chlorine and the product Of the
Hartford Gas company, have very
perceptible one. There is general
idea that body must possess mo-
lecular weight fifteen times as great as
that of hydrogen before IL can affect
the olfactory nerves Of human beings,
but even that needs confirmation. We
frequently confound taste and smell,
and il is said that no one can distin-
guish an onion from an apple by taste
alone.
Some odors cling TO the surface Of
things, as the odor OF game, which
rarely rises much above the ground |;
others are rapidly diffused through the
air. Why is this? No one knows.
One Of the most singular things about
the sense Of smell Is that IL is not sub
jsct 10 illusions. Sight may be de-
oeivsd. One may imagine he sees
things which are not before him; he
may hear roaring in his ears when
there 10 no sound, but II is said that
oven the insane are not subject TO OIL
factory delusions. There are NO ghost
smslls. II this is true, what is the
reason, what il the explanation OF the
| phenomenon2 Again, why are the
earth and fields 30 much more fragrant
n the morning than 81 noon, when,
a he other hand, the strength Of
moo1 odors u inoreased By heat?
The scienti6o men ought ~ least 70
seuako bIulfs' & some AZ these proh-