The weekly Placer herald., 1854-08-19

A Curious INcIDENr.-Mr. Flauddn,
m his narrative of residence in Persia,
relates a curious incident which occurred
when he was at lspahan:
The Persian servant OF a European had
been stung ny a scorpion, and his master
wished to apply ammonia, the usual re-
medy in such cases, but the man refused
and ran off to the bazaar. When he re-
turned he said he was cured, and appear
ed to he so. The European, rather sur
prised at this almost instantaneous cure,
questioned him, and found that he had
been to il dervish, who, he said, after ex
amining the wound and uttering few
words, had several times touched it with
little iron blade. Sti more astOnished
at the remedy than the cure, the Europe
an desired to see the instrument by which
the latter was said to have been effected.
At the cost of small pickech he was
allowed to have it for a few minutes IN
his possession After a careful eXamna-
tion. finding nothing extraordinary in the
instrument, he made up his mind that the
cure was mere trick; that the dervl>h
was an inpostor; that the scorpion sting
had not penetrated, and that his servant
had been more frightened than hurt. He
threw the blade contemptunusly upon the
table, when, to his great snrnrlSe, ne be-
he Il it attach itself strongly to a knife.
The quack's instrument was simply Il
magnet But what power had the load
stones attraction over venom? This dis
covery was very odd; incredulty was at
IA nonpIus, and yet the man stung by the
scorpion was cured, and he who had cured
| n, I-t. h.n fnr
the treatment of that sort of wound.
! The SwEDENBoRGIAN IDEA OF MAR
RAGE. - Since the late SWedenborgian
wedding at RavenswOod, near New York,
took place, IA good deal of newspaper talk
about ''conugal" love has been entertain
ing the public there A follower of Enan-
uel Swedenborg comes out in the New
York Post, there, and says thar that wrl-
ter holds these doctrines on the state of
conSorts after death:
J. The laws of the sex remain with
every man after death such as it was in
his interior will and thought in the world.
2. The same is tue of conjugal love.
8 Two consorts most commonly meet
after death, know each other, again as>o-
ciate, and for some time live together.
This takes place in the first state, while
they are in externals, as in the world.
a. AS they sucressively put off their
externa and enter into their Intervals,
they perceive in what love and inclination
towards each other they had mutually
been, and consequently whether they can
live together or not,
5 If they can i've together, they remain
conSortS; but if they cannot, they sepa-
rate thernSe YES, sometimes the man from
the wife, and sometimes the wife from the
man, and sometimes each from the other.
6. Then there is given to the man
suitable wife, and to the wife a man in
like manner
7. That consorts enjoy similar inter-
course with each other as in the world,
but more pleasant and blessed; yet with
out prolticatIon, in the place of which
they have spiritual prollfication, which is
love and wisdom.
8. Such is the case with those who 60
into Heaven, but otherwise with those
who go into He'll
The New Orleans Picayune, from
which we take the above, says: "But sup
pose the case of person who has been
married to several husbands, or wives!
Swedenborg's theory seems to contradict
that of Christ, as given by him in reply
to "certain Of the Sadducees," in st
Luke's Gospel, chapter Xxx, verses 1886
LADIES' BooTs.-Boot max ing appears
to become more and more fashionable,
every day, and seems destined ere long
to drive fancy needle work from our par
Iors. The Detroit advertiser says that
in that city large proportion Of the ladies
make their own boots When visiting a
lady of the ton, is very common thing
to find her busy with last, awl, waxed