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ALL ABOUT Harriet Hubbard Ayer and the Récamier Toilet Preparations.

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Why you should use them?

Because no woman can be beautiful, or even cleanly in appearance, whose face is marred by pimples, blackheads, blotches, freckles, or other imperfections.

Because they are the only skin remedies indorsed by physicians and by the women who make the preservation of their beauty a life study.

40 BROADWAY, N.Y., January, 1887. MRS. H. H. AYER:

Dear Madam-Samples of your
Récamier Preparations have been
analyzed by me. I find that there
is nothing in them that will harm
the most delicate skin, and which
is not authorized by the French
Pharmacopoeia as safe and benefi-
cial in preparations of this char-
acter. Respectfully yours,
THOS. B. STILLMAN, M. Sc., Ph.D.
From Madame Adelina Patti-Nicolini,

Crag y Nos Castle, October 13, 1887.
My Dear Mrs. Ayer-There

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never has been anything equal in merit to the Récamier Preparations, my skin is so immensely improved by their use. I need not dread old age while these magic inventions of yours exist. I use cream, balm, and lotion every day of my life, and could not exist comfortably without them. Récamier Soap also is perfect. I shall never use any other. It far surpasses all toilet soaps. I hear that the Princess of Wales is delighted with the Récamier Preparations. I am convinced your Récamier Preparations are the greatest boon ever invented. I could not comfortably endure a day without them. ADELINA PATTI-NICOLINI.

Récamier Cream, for tan, sunburn, pimples, &c. Price, $1.50. Récamier Balm, a beautifier, pure and simple. Price, $1.50. Récamier Almond Lotion, for freckles, moth and discolorations. Price, $1.50. Récamier Powder, for toilet, nursery. Will stay on and does not make face shine. Price, $1.00 large boxes; 50 cents small boxes.

Récamier Soap. Best in the world. Price, 50 cts. scented; 25 cts. unscented. If your druggist cannot supply you, refuse all substitutes and order direct. If you will mention Lippincott's you will receive a free package of the Récamier Toilet Powder. In giving orders please make your remittance by post-office or express money order, postal note, stamps, or in registered letter.

Caution.- Beware of swindlers and discharged employés. I employ no agents. The secrets of my formulæ are unknown outside my laboratory.

Récamier Manufacturing Company, 52 and 54 Park Place, New York City. Harriet Hubbard Ayer, President.

ORIGIN OF THE TERM "CHESTNUT."-A correspondent writes to ask the origin of the term "chestnut" as applied to old jests. Various explanations have been given as to the origin of this word: the most plausible one is given by Mr. Joseph Jefferson, who, to quote his own words, says, "There is a melodrama but little known to the present generation, written by William Dillon, called 'The Broken Sword.' There were two characters in it, one a Captain Xavier, and the other the comedy part of Pablo. The captain is a sort of Baron Munchausen, and, in telling of his exploits, says, 'I entered the woods of Colloway, when suddenly from the boughs of a cork-tree'-Pablo interrupts him with the words, 'A chestnut, captain, a chestnut.' 'Bah!' replies the captain, 'Bobby, I say a cork-tree!' 'A chestnut!' reiterates Pablo. 'I should know as well as you, having heard you tell the tale these twenty-seven times.'

"William Warren, who had often played the part of Pablo, was at a stagdinner a few years ago, when one of the gentlemen present told, a story of doubtful age and originality. A chestnut,' murmured Mr. Warren, quoting from the play. 'I have heard you tell the tale these twenty-seven times.' The application of the lines pleased the rest of the table, and when the party broke up each helped to spread the story and Mr. Warren's commentary. And this,' Mr. Jefferson adds, 'I really believe to be the origin of the word 'chestnut.'"

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ST. ANDREW'S CROSS.-The cross of St. Andrew is always represented in the shape of the letter X; but that this is an error ecclesiastical historians prove by appealing to the cross itself on which he suffered, which St. Stephen of Burgundy gave to the convent of St. Victor, near Marseilles, and which, like the common cross, is rectangular. The cause of the error is thus explained: when the apostle suffered, the cross, instead of being fixed upright, rested on its foot and arm, and in this posture he was fastened to it, his hands to one arm and the head, his feet to the other arm and the foot, and his head in the air.

THE EARLIEST COINED MONEY.-Throughout the early parts of Scripture, as well as through the poems of Homer, not a single passage occurs from which can be inferred the existence of stamped money of any description. It is now agreed that the Egyptians had no coined money. Herodotus is authority for the statement that the Lydians were the first people who coined gold and silver. The Parian Chronicle, however, ascribes the first coinage of copper and silver money to Pheidon, King of Argos, 895 B.C., in Ægina, which Ælian corroborates; and the best numismatic antiquaries agree in considering the coins of Ægina, from their archaic form and appearance, the most ancient known. They are of silver, and bear on the upper side the figure of a turtle, and on the under an indented mark.

Pheidon also first established a scale of weights and measures, which are considered to have been borrowed immediately from the Phoenicians, and by them originally from the Babylonians, the common origin being the Chaldæan priesthood.

Coins are among the most certain evidences of history. In the later part of the Greek series they illustrate the chronology of reigns. In the Roman series they fix the dates and succession of events. Gibbon observes that, if all our historians were lost, medals, inscriptions, and other monuments would be sufficient to record the travels of Hadrian. The reign of Probus might be written from his coins.

CATARRH, CATARRHAL DEAFNESS, AND HAY-FEVER. A new home treatment. Sufferers are not generally aware that these diseases are contagious, or that they are due to the presence of living parasites in the lining membrane of the nose and Eustachian tubes. Microscopic research, however, has proved this to be a fact, and the result of this discovery is that a simple remedy has been formulated whereby catarrh, catarrhal deafness, and hay-fever are permanently cured in from one to three simple applications made at home by the patient once in two weeks.

"N.B.-This treatment is not a snuff or an ointment; both have been discarded by reputable physicians as injurious. A pamphlet explaining this new treatment is sent on receipt of ten cents by A. H. Dixon & Son, 303 West King Street, Toronto, Canada."-Toronto Globe.

Sufferers from catarrhal troubles should carefully read the above.

SUPERSTITIONS OF THE HINDOos.—A contributor to Science gives the following account of superstitions in every-day use among the Hindoos: "The Hindoos are early risers. In the warm season-extending from April to Octoberthey sleep either upon the house-top or in the court-yard, or in the veranda, if rain should be threatening, and are usually up at five o'clock or earlier in the morning. In the cold weather, when they sleep within-doors, they rise later, but they are out before seven. Rising in the morning while but half awake, the Hindoo repeats the name of Rama several times. Happening to yawn, he immediately fillips his thumb and middle finger, though he does not know why. He prepares for his morning toilet. He plucks a twig from the bitter Neem-tree, breaks off a span length of it, crushes one end between his teeth, and extemporizes a tooth-brush. He next draws up water from the well in the yard with an iron bucket, and prepares to wash his hands and face. This is quickly done. He then throws on an extra garment, the thickness and texture depending on the season and weather, lights his hooka, takes a few pulls with his euphonious hubble-bubble, and is ready to go out. With a passing 'Rama, Rama,' to friend or acquaintance, and a neighborly gossip by the way, he repairs to his place of business. While going he will sedulously avoid those signs and sounds which may augur ill for the day. Should one sneeze, or should he hear the cawing of a crow or the cry of a kite, or should he meet an oil-man, or one blind or lame, or see a cat cross his path, he would be greatly distressed as to the day before him. On the other hand, if a fox crosses his path, if he hears a gong or shell summoning him to worship, or if he meets a Brahman with his head uncovered, he would rejoice, hailing it as auspicious. Some are so superstitious that if any evil portent occurs on the way they would return home, have a smoke, or chew a betel-leaf, and proceed afresh."

ADORATION OF FLOWERS.-In ancient times plant-worship was universal in the East, and it seems that even in our own times a system of flower-worship is kept up in various parts of Persia and India. A recent traveller in India gives the following description of flower-worship as practised by the Persians in Bombay: "A true Persian in flowing robe of blue, and on his head a sheepskin hat,—black, glossy, curly, the fleece of Kar-Kal,—would saunter in, and stand and meditate over every flower he saw, and always as if half in vision. And when the vision was fulfilled, and the ideal flower he was seeking found, he would spread his mat and sit before it until the setting of the sun, and then pray before it, and then fold up his mat again and go home. And the next night,

and night after night, until that particular flower faded away, he would return to it, and bring his friends in ever-increasing troops to it, and sit and play the guitar or lute before it, and they would all together pray there, and after prayer still sit before it sipping sherbet and talking the most hilarious and shocking scandal late into the moonlight, and so again and again every evening, until the flower died. Sometimes, by way of a grand finale, the whole company would suddenly arise before the flower and serenade it together with an ode from Hafiz, and depart."

MODES OF EXECUTION.-A contributor to American Notes and Queries summarizes the modes of execution in different countries as follows:

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Austria, gallows, public.
Bavaria, guillotine, private.
Belgium, guillotine, public.
Brunswick, axe, private.
China, sword or cord, public.
Denmark, guillotine, public.
Ecuador, musket, public.
France, guillotine, public.
Great Britain, gallows, private.

Hanover, guillotine, private.

Italy, capital punishment abolished.

Netherlands, gallows, public.

Oldenburg, musket, public.

Portugal, gallows, public.

Prussia, sword, private.

Russia, musket, gallows, or sword, public.

Saxony, guillotine, private.

Spain, garrote, public.

Switzerland:

Fifteen cantons, sword, public.

Two cantons, guillotine, public.

Two cantons, guillotine, private.

United States, other than New York, gallows, mostly private.

NAPOLEON'S BEES.-Napoleon I., wishing to have some regal emblem more ancient than the fleur-de-lys, is said to have adopted the bee under the following circumstances. When the tomb of Childeric (the father of Clovis) was opened in 1653, there were found, besides the skeletons of his horse and page, his arms, etc., a great number of models of what the French heralds mistook for bees. These were of the purest gold, their wings being inlaid with a red stone, like cornelian." These "bees" were accordingly sprinkled over the imperial robe as emblematical of enterprise and activity. But these small ornaments resembling bees were only what in French are called fleurons, supposed to have been attached to the harness of the war-horse. Handfuls of them were found when the tomb was opened at Tournay, and sent to Louis XIV. They were deposited upon a green ground at Versailles, which was adopted by Napoleon as the original Merovingian color.

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