The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1891-05-02
MYSTERIOUS POISONs.
ruE DEADLY oROwTHs AND
DRUGS ABOuNDINo.
The True stories About Them Are More
wonderful Than are Any OF the
False ones-Negetabie and
Mineral PoIsons.

Eained "A paragraph nhuco NC" i<o"u"h.
',onn.. which told how farmer and
his wife were overpowered by the
nox,ous fumes Of stick OF poison
alder which had been thrown into the
ti,chen stove, and how physician
had n hard struggle 20 save their lives.
reporter showed IL 10 we'll
Known scientist who has made tho
study OF toxicology. n speciality. and I
asked him whether there could possibly 4
he amy truth In II. Here is what the 4
professor said;
Young man take out your note /
AUok. ST down and listen and | VIII I
teSl YOU something about subject thsf (
she public knows less about than any
rfbtt. subject In the world. That story
isn't aruc. and nothing like il ever was
1rue or ever will bc true. IL Is OF
sexacfly the same character as the
following myths which am going Ia
relate Ia you
ION the island OF Java grows the
snhUH upds tree. which owes us
nssoriety 10 foersch. a surgeon In the
employ OF The Dutch East India com
pary. who. nearly hundred years
400 fold some wonderful stories about
II. he related how the emanation oil
this tree killed all animals that APP
n-onehed II; how the birds that flew
TOO near IL fell dead; how criminals
Hhat we've condemned 10 death were
allowed 10 collect leaves from the tree,
and that only two out OF twenty ever
rrturncd: how II grew IN valley,
With no trco or plant within ten miles
.. IL. AN beirg barren waste, strewh
,vi Nm hunnn and other bones. 1t was
! eantiful story sud the world believed
u scientists discovered IN 1910 that
The ssas was "a very poisonous tree,
whos, : effects were similar 10 those OF
poison ivy.
..Ne n il the manchineel, poison
ons ave ,u,reen tree which grows In the
West In llq Islands. This tree y s'liu
10 be mo v deadly th.uf The ,pas' ahu
il was gel e.rally supposed that urol
OF It's Juice falling upon the skin mac
the same effect ~ the a"piiea'loi
81 a red hot, is'on. The IN 'lky juice o
this tree is undoubtedly hig Ma poison
ous. but such. stories as the Dove nr'
highly exa gserated. This poison
like our poi, va sumach, affects so'u'
persons more seriously than others
IL il said that the smoke f.Non
burning name hineel wood produ, e.
/ temporary bin iness- This is true ~
/ a measure. tho Ugh IL does not aneci
every one i'm the same Say. Berthold
Seemann. the bGinist was blind for q
few DAYS after he had gathered some
| OF the leaves OF the tree 0n the coas'
| of Florida. and some OF the crew wer'
| blind for nearsy week from having
made a fire OF some OF the wood
.Dramatists MS rule don't know tn
first thing about poisons. Nathnnie
Lee. IN his tragedy Of Alexander,
makes one OF mis- characters adim1nls
ter a poison so the conqperor OF an
world which.
Mixed with his wine, single drop gave
death
And sends him bowling TO the shade
below
after swallowing this terrible mix
ture. AleraRdtv' goes through the la'
ter part OF the fourth and most OF IN
fifth act. kills man. makes nm
speech, raves wildly, RECEIVERS NJ
senses, and. after "A fine dying address
goes OF. Now there isn't poison In IN
?. world which can produce such an efiec
J There Is poison. little known To play
IL wrights. which has much more woi
dcrful effect than this. but very ie'
people know anything about II. ATT
J IL Is swallowed the person walks aDo'
for time varying from half an bO'
, Ia two hours; then his skin. and ere
the whites OF his eyes become al
:. strange purplish. livid color. lie ma
feel perfectly well. when suddenly acu
pnin will set In, and I'm a few moinen
, he dies. This effect Il produced D
nitro benzine.
Then there IL Philip Massinge
who in his play. The Duke OF Milan
4 shows that he doesn't know the mr.
thing about toxioology. One OF u
characters scattcrs poisonous powd
over n flower. which Is afterward give
IN A female. Some OF the powder IA
Z an her hand. and when her lover 81
u,es the tips OF her fingers he die
4 Pure nconitine itself, the most powe
an ful OF nh known vegetable poisor
a would hardly produce that effect.
y The most powerful and deadly r.
q ,on In the world and NJ the sal
fine The Oldest one known 20 manki
: prussic acid. To illustrate It's ant
i ity: An Egyptologist has read ON
TO y ryptian papyrus preserved at
pt !. mvre. Pronounce not the name
n Il A. o. under the penalty OF
70 neach.' The only poison which can
y d,snilled from the peach Is prussic nc
v ~o that Il must have been known
the Egyptian. A knight In the re
20 Tiherius accused OF high treas