National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-03-01
Bird Tracks in Stone.

, A correspondent of the Providence
JOur.al, in an article on fossil bird tracks
in the Connecticut River Valley, says
We have only to go to the Connecticut
valley, in the northern part of Massachu-
setts, to find in the slabs Of sandstone
frequently quarried there, the imprints
some quadrupeds, which trod the shores
or waded the shadows of that ancient
estuary, the head of which was probably
near Turner's Falls, filling what is now
the Connecticut valley to that point and
opening into the ocean. These birds
long since extinct as living beings, did
indeed leave their
Footprints in the sands of time
and SO well does a part indicate the
whole that these may also be photo
! graphed from their tracks, as Agassiz
draws fish, which he has never seen,
| from a scale.
Some of these birds were small, their
steps being not more than three or four
inches long, while others were six feet
Think of the birds which took such
strides! The footprint of one is seven
teen inches long, and another makes n
track, if the impression made by what is
thought to have been kind of heel be
included, two feet in length and step
of six feet
These tracks were first brought to the
notice of the world in 1886, by the late
President Hitchcock although they had
been observed a year before. Although
his statements were at first received with
scepticism they are now as well verified
as anything in geology. Specimens of
tracks from the locality named are to be !
seen in the large geological cabinets of |
the world, and are found in many small
private collections.
CURE FOR HYDRoPHoBIA.- Franklin |
Dyre, highly respectable and inteli- |
gent farmer of Galena Maryland gives
the following as a sure cure for the bite |
of mad dog. AS will be seen, he has
tested it with the most gratifying results
Elecampane is a plant well known to
most persons, and is to be found in most
of our gardens Immediately after be
ing bitten, take one and half ounces
of the root of the PLAINTIFF green root
is perhaps preferable, but the dry will
answer and may be found in the drug
stores, and was used by me-slice or
bruise, put it into a pint OF milk, boil
down to half pint, strain, and when cool
drink it, fasting at least six hours after
ward The next morning repeat the
dose, prepared as the last, and this will
be sufficient. 1t is recommended that
after each dose nothing he eaten for at
least six hours. | have "A son that was
bitten by n mad dog eighteen years ago.
and four other children IN the neighbor-
hood were also bitten; they took the I
above dose, and are alive and well to I
this day. And ] have known a number
of Others who were bitten and applied {
the same remedy. 1t is supposed the {
root contains a principle which, being {
taken up by the blood in its circulation. '
counteracts or neutralizes the deadly eff |
fects of the virus of hydrophobia | feel {
SO much confidence in this simple l
remedy, that | am willing you should t
give my name in connection with this '
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ANNOYING WITNESSES. Lawyers who !;
badger witnesses upon the stand often i
get sharply cut, and among the hume q
'ous stories told at the expense of the &
members of the bar, there is none better :,
han one that occurred at the session of q
court recently held i'll a Western city. u
\ prominent lawyer had an old farmer h
Ipon the stand whom he undertook to ;,
lrowbeat, and for an hour labored hard q,
o confuse and frighten him by his mer- .,
'iless style of ss-questioning. The =,
awyer has large bald head that by a
tretcb of imagination might be thought
o resemble IA pumpkin. and wore Huge NJ
tanding shirt collar During his labo- II
ious badgering of the old farmer one a
ide of the collar wilted and lay down .,
m the lawyers coat As the witness :,
vas released, he stepped toward his tor n
mentor and said, loud enough for the =,
ourt and jury to Lear "See here, =,
squire, if you don't put up yom side. .,
oards you'll lose that pumpkin of the y,
op of your load" Smiles were audible
boni that time.
The Seneca (Kansas) Courier offers 10
he advocates of Texas cattle the fol al
'wng overwhelming argument "It W
as been ascertained that the beef OF al
le average Texiean, if the bones are tf
ken out, eau be salted away IN the ia
orps." III