The National tribune., 1889-06-06

in tea-chest characters, and then demand fee
of so cents. Some of these prescriptions have
been translated and the result has not been to
enhance the respect Of the patients for the the
rapeutic wisdom of the preseriber. One which
was to cure bad case of jim-jams resulting
from opium-smoking read:
Picked lizards, two pairs, two male and two
female; Korea ginseng root half an ounce; willow
cricket skins. half dozen. three males and three
females; sweet potato vines, one ounce; white
nuts, one ounce; lotus leaves, half ounce; rat
tlesnake tail, quarter of an ounce; black dates,
two ounees elm bark, half ounce; deyilfish
toes, half an ounce; reindeers horn, half ounce
birds claws quarter of an ounce; dried ginger,
quarter of an ounce coffin nails Told ones half an
ounce. Boil the whole with two quarts of water
until only half of the water is left, aud then drink
ii as preliminary dose"
Another, to cure cancer, read:
Raw earth, 3 ounces; Winter wheat ounces;
ginseng pills, 3 sprig of cinnamon, IL ounces;
Southern apricot seeds, ounce; willow leaves, =
ounce; anniseed oil, l ounce red dogs tail
ounce; peach skin, ounce; clam she'll 2 ounces;
sandal wood 5 ounces; dandelion dried l ounce.
Mix and boil with water; take it seven times
day. DR.. CHo PKG.
SCIENTISTS say that if it were not for its
enemies fish would live indefinitely, and con-
tinue to grow all the time. But its capabilities
are limited in one direction. If it lived a
thousand years it could not get as tough as a
boarding house chicken can in two.
THE latest catch is to ask your friend to name
in succession the numerals on a watch. lie viii
say, when he understands the question, Il, :"
gil, ILL.," "IY," and then you have him.
1t will be hard to convince him until he looks
at his watch that is never represented on a
watch dial, and rarely on that of a clock, by
Nv, but always by iii. The reason Of this is
said to be the danger of confusing " with VI.
THE old superstition-which we got from the
Indians-that consumption can be cured by
swallowing rattlesnake's heart, has been re-
vived at Ellenville, N. Y. An old man lives
there who says that he was so cured of a hope
less illness. The old Indian way was to stake
a rattlesnake to the ground, cut his heart out,
and compel the eonsumptiye to swallow it the
instant it was taken from the reptiles body.
OF course, the whole thing was a delusion. 1t
belongs to the same class of consumption cures
as swallowing toads and snails.
JOHN BoGARD, of Van Lue, o., was engaged
10 MISS Lola BECK, anu was 70 nave marrleQ
her in two weeks, but discovered another young
man calling on her, took arsenic, and passed to
that land where there is neither marrying nor
giving in marriage. After all, John probably
did the best thing possible under the circum-
stances for a man of his misft intellect. The
longer he tarried in this common-scnse world
the more he would seem out Of place in it, and
the greater affiiction he would be to himself
and those around him. Miss Beck owes him a
debt of gratitude for the relief he has given
her.
In recent speech Ex-President Cleveland
said oraeularly: Let us forget sordid things
Certainly, let's. The people are trying to for
get him as rapidly as possible.
THE Coroner's jury has decided that the
doctors dissected mind-reader Bishop " in good
faith, and are consequently not blameable. If
as his mother alleges, Bishop was only in a
trance at the time, he probably read the doc
tors minds perfectly and knew more of their
motives than the jury has been able to find out
since. AT all events, Mr.. Bishop is pretty
surely dead. whatever the motives Of the gen.
tlemen with the nimbIe scalpel