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Bread  made  with  Sea-  Water. — M.  Rabuteau,  after  considering  the  effects  of 
sea- water  in  large  or  small  doses  on  the  economy,  thinks  that  bread  made  with  it 
might  be  taken  with  advantage  in  dyspepsia,  phthisis,  and. scrofula.  The  bread 
is  extremely  pleasant  to  the  taste. — Detroit  Rev.  of  Med.  and  Pharm.,  May, 
1872. 
A  Fact  for  Non- Smoker  a. — A  Dutch  merchant,  named  Klaes,  who  was 
known  among  his  acquaintances  by  the  name  of  the  King  of  Smokers,  has  just 
died  near  Rotterdam.  According  to  the  Belgian  papers  he  had  amassed  a 
large  fortune,  and  had  erected  near  Rotterdam  a  mansion,  one  portion  of  which 
was  devoted  to  the  arrangement  of  a  collection  of  pipes  according  to  their 
nationality  and  chronological  order.  A  few  days  before  his  death  he  sum- 
moned his  lawyer,  and  made  his  will,  in  which  he  directed  that  all  the  smokers 
of  the  country  should  be  invited  to  his  funerel,  that  each  should  be  presented 
with  101b.  of  tobacco  and  two  Dutch  pipes  of  the  newest  fashion,  on  which 
should  be  engraved  the  name,  arms,  and  date  of  the  decease  of  the  testator. 
He  requested  all  his  relatives,  friends  and  funeral  guests  to  be  careful  to  keep 
their  pipes  alight  during  the  funeral  ceremonies,  after  which  they  should  empty 
the  ashes  from  their  pipes  on  the  coffin.  The  poor  of  the  neighborhood  who 
attended  to  his  last  wishes  were  to  receive  annually,  on  the  anniversary  of  his 
death,  10lb.  of  tobacco  and  a  small  cask  of  good  beer.  He  desired  that  his 
oak  coffin  should  be  lined  with  the  cedar  of  his  old  Havanna  cigar  boxes,  and 
that  a  box  of  French  caporal  and  a  packet  of  old  Dutch  tobacco  should  be 
placed  at  the  foot  of  his  coffin.  His  favorite  pipe  was  to  be  placed  by  his  side, 
along  with  a  box  of  matches,  a  flint  and  steel,  and  some  tinder,  as  he  said  there 
was  no  knowing  what  might  happen.  A  clever  calculator  has  made  out  that 
Mr.  Klaes  had,  during  his  eighty  years  of  life,  smoked  more  than  four  tons  of 
tobacco,  and  had  drunk  about  500,000  quarts  of  beer. 
It  is  said,  "  exceptions  prove  the  rule."  This  is  decidedly  a  very  strong  ex- 
ception, and  will  doubtless  be  often  adduced  as  forcible  evidence  against  "  the 
poisonous  effects  of  tobacco  upon  the  system." — Med.  Press  and  dr.,  May 
8,  1872. 
Arabian  Mode  of  Perfuming. — How  the  Arab  ladies  perfume  themselves  is 
thus  described  by  Sir  Samuel  Baker  in  his  work  on  the  Nile  :  "  In  the  floor  of 
the  hut  or  tent,  as  it  may  chance  to  be,  a  small  hole  is  excavated  sufficiently 
large  to  contain  a  champagne  bottle.  A  fire  of  charcoal  or  simply  glowing 
embers  is  made  within  the  hole,  into  which  the  woman  about  to  be  scented 
throws  a  handful  of  drugs.  She  then  takes  off  the  clothes,  or  robe  which  forms 
her  dress,  and  crouches  over  the  fumes,  while  she  arranges  her  robe  to  fall  as 
a  mantle  from  her  neck  to  the  ground  like  a  tent.  She  now  begins  to  perspire 
freely  in  the  hot  air  bath,  and  the  pores  of  the  skin  being  open  and  moist,  the 
volatile  oil  from  the  smoke  of  the  burning  perfumes  is  immediately  absorbed. 
By  the  time  the  fire  has  expired,  the  scenting  process  is  completed,  and  both 
her  person  and  her  robe  are  redolent  with  incense,  with  which  they  are  so  thor- 
oughly impregnated  that  I  have  frequently  smelt  a  party  of  women  strongly  at 
