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Show BEETLE AS A SCENT SACHET. Insect of Borneo That Exhales Most Powerful Perfume. The beaux and belles of Romeo do not have to distil perfume for their hair or handkerchiefs. They have only to take a walk until they find a mimosa in blossom. Clinging to the flower-balls Is found a magnificent beetle of brilliant emerald green shading sha-ding to a bright bronze on the wing-cases, wing-cases, and touched with gold on the head. This living Jewel emlt3 a powerful pow-erful scent of attar of roses, perfuming the air for many vards arounrl tt A number of them placed In a house will fill It from top to bottom with delightful delight-ful fragrance.- Youg glrl3 roll tho insect in a bit of cotton cloth and braid It In their black locks, and j young men suspend It around their I necks like an amulet or an Egyptian I scarab. The fragrance gradually grows fainter as the beetlo loses its vitality, nnd dies with it. The beetle lives In captivity only a few hours, and as the scent expires with It, no way has so far been found to extract or preserve the exquisite odor. The sceutvd beetle appears only when the mimosa Is in flower. Neither birds nor lizards will destroy. It, and It Is protected even from the vora- clous woodpecker by its powerful perfume, per-fume, j |