Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1875 — Where Your Perfume Comes From. [ARTICLE]

Where Your Perfume Comes From.

Our fair readers may be interested to learn where, for the most part, the flowers grow, the sweet perfumes of which are found in those pretty flacons on their dressing-tables. The chief places of their growth are the south of France and Piedmont, namely: Montpelier, Grasse, Nimes, Cannes and Nice; these two last especially are the paradise of violets, and furnish a yearly product of about 13,000 pounds of violet blossoms. Nice produces a harvest of 100,000 pounds of orange blossoms, and Cannes as much again and of a finer color; 500 pounds of orange blossoms yield about two pounds of pure Neroli oil. At Cannes the acacia thrives well, and produces yearly about 9,000 pounds of acacia blossoms. One great perfumery distillery at Cannes uses yearly 140,000 pounds es orange blossoms, 140,000 pounds of rose leaves, 32,000 pounds of jessamine blossoms, 20,000 pounds of violets and 8,000 pounds of tuberoses, together with a great many other sweet herbs. The extraction of the ethereal oils, the small quantities of which are mixed in the flowers with such large quantities of other vegetable juices that it requires about 600 pounds of rose leaves to win one ounce of otto of roses, demands a very careful treatment The French, favored by their climate, are the most active, although not • always the most careful, preparers of perfume; half of the world is furnished by this branch of their industry.— lnter-Ocean. The difference between the sexes may be stated thus: A man gives forty cents for a twenty-flve-cent thing he wants, and a woman gives forty cents for a twenty-flve-cent thing she does not want. The people in some parts of the country this winter pump water with an ax and bring it home in a basket.