Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-09-10

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will inherit his warts.
If an lnnishowen woman is troubled
in the same way, she procures ten
straws, ties knot upon each, throws
the tenth away, and carefully rubbing
her warts with the nine knotted straws,
makes an attractlve-lookine white par
eel of them, and throws it upon the
high road. sure that the first person
who takes up ard opens the parcel Will
become possessor OF her warts.
The cures differ slightly III different
parts of the country. In some dis
tricts a wart. charmar gives folded pa
per, directing the patient to bury 1t,
and assuming him that as the paper de-
Gays his warts VIII vanish. IN othef
townlands he will be advised to touch
the warts with nine pins, AMI throw
them away in the gave yard. Another
cure is TO dip a cloth III pigs blood.
rub the warts with it, aid bury 1t, and
as the cloth rois away, the warts Will
disappear.
TO return, however, to more serious
and universal ills. For toothache our
old people recommend many cures.
The commonest of these is a particl-
larry grewsome one. Some months
ago an English tourist lingering in H
country cburchyard, was present at u
funeral, and observed among the group
OF mourners young man who particu
larly attracted attention by his swollen
face, and the utter detection of his APP
pearance. "Here at least is one true
mourner,' thought the Englishman.
While this thought was passing through
his MUD, the Supposed INQUIRER took
up u skull which lay on the top of "a
heap of dry mold and crumbled bones.
He raised it to his lips, and, with his
own teeth, extracted u tooth from 1t.
Horror filled the stranger as he watched
this proceeding, and saw him throw
the skull carelessly away, while he
wrapped the tooth IN paper, and put 1t
in his pocket.
"Can you tell ms why he did that p
asked our tourist of an old man who
had stood beside him during the fun
eral ceremony.
"Ay, surely, your honor the poor
boy was very bad wi the toothache,
an it's allowed to be cure if you
draw tooth frae skull wi your ain
teeth. He'll sew the tooth in his
clothes, an wear it as long as he lives.
"You don't tell me SO! Do You
think the remedy will be effectual?'
Its like enough, SIR" replied the
old man, showing where tooth was
sewed in the lining OF his own vast
coat. Its five years since l pulled
that ane the same way, an never had
touch o the toothache SINCE"
There are wise men-generally
country MISUNDERSTANDING profess
to give q cure to- tUothache. Some
words are written on slip of paper,
which is folded up and given to the
sufferer, with the Injunction not to read
it, but to sew it unopened in his
clothes. If the paper were to be read,
the charm would be broken.
THAT is pretty ring" we remark
to some tidy house. maid or nursery
maid AS she waits upon US.
ut was bestowed on me, ma'am,"
she replies; bat no blush accompanies
the confession, and we know instinct
lively that it was not the gift of an ad-
mirer. IT wear it for the toothache, :"
she proceeded to explain.
Probably some neighbcr, seeing her
suffer, had kindly presented it, know
ing the superstition that to wear ring
which had been given as present is a
charm against tootha che. 1t certainly
must be an easier and pleaeauter remedy
than to swallow nine hairs pulled out
OF black oats tail. which is che cute
most strongly recommended in some
parts OF Donegal.
A great many extraordinary reme-
dies for whooping-cough are recon.
mended in Donegal. One of the
qaaintest and most resorted to is to
procure aud wear lock of hair from q
posthumous child.
| Two years ago every second child in
the town-land of Bally lafferty was
coughing terribly. 70 the question,
How is Sandy or Lizzie to-day? }" the
answer was, :" Bad enough still, but
they'll be better tomorrow, for we hs
got wee lock of hair from Jamie
Teagus!'
"A look of hair from jamie league
What will you do with it?"
"The weans ill wear it, miss, an
they'll soon De better"
"But why Jamie leagues hair?"
Because Jamie's boy that never
seen his father; an it's allowed that tn
hair Of ane that never saw his father i
good for the chin-cough," was the re
ply, with smile of indulgent pity TO
our ignorance.
In other districts the child is passe,
nine times under a donkey. In SOM
parishes the mother of the sick child
goes out in the evening.
"Where the beetle wheels his dronipg flight,
but she does not listen to the pleasan
sound with any of the feelings that in
spired the poet. She hopes the beetl
will fly against her, and be caught
She must not look for him; the charm
is useless if the poor insect does no
J become her prey by accident. He
carried home, and cooked up in bot
, tie. and as he slowly dies, the child
cough wears away.
In the neighborhood of Letterkenn,
and Ramelton the sick child is sent on
to meet pie-bald horse. If he chanc
to encounter this rare animal, he stop
the rider. and says, "You man, ridin,
on piebald horse, give me cure TO
; the chincough." To which the ride
replies, " A kiss from my lips, a keppe
! fninnn nf hraal