of necklaces and bracelets for women. Notwith-standing they are manufactured from the red coral, fished up in various parts of Asia, these beads are very costly, especially when they run to any size. They are generally sold by the sicca-weight, or tolah; that is, by their weight in silver, two and a half rupees weighing about one ounce ; or eighty to the seer of nearly two pounds avoirdupoise. A tolah of high colored, sound beads, as large as a marrow-fat pea, may commonly be had for about three, or four, rupees; sometimes cheaper: consequently, an ounce of coral beads, called moongahs, will cost near a guinea. This, which is four times the value of silver, appears to be a high price, considering the low wages of laborers, and proves that coral cannot be advantageously imported from India to England. The ladies of Asia are very parti-cular in often steeping their moongahs in pigeon's blood; under the firm belief of their color being heightened by such immersions ! This recipe may, however, be matched by many, of equal efficacy, highly valued among ourselves. . "The lowest, and most poverty-struck woman in Bengal, would consider herself truly wretch- , ed if she could not, now and then, anoint her , head with oil, of some kind. The ladies of affluence invariably use scented oils, of which those impregnated with the bale, the jasmine,