The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1891-12-26

- ~ lean il it is S ans milk,
-. IN default OF at, In hat or a COW; and
u ,t,ar having been stepped for 10 or IL
sn,,s the milk, which has absorbed all
~ vanom, assumes he color OF matter
III d,v when dined with the archbishop
af Gna he took me into his museum.
-. he had many curlosities. Among
- things re showed me one of the mad
% Otnras and ia telling me Of its properties
ossnrad me that it was three days since he
IA made a trial of ii, after which he pre-
nar,ta3 il TO me. As ne trayersed marsh
ON the Island OF Salsette, upon which Goa
"a s;tpsted. on his way to a house in the
country. one of his pllaquin bearers, who
was almost naked, was bitten by Il serpent
and was at once cured 10y this stone.
have bought many Of them and it is that
which makes me think that they make
them. You employ two methods TO ascer
| tain if the snake-stone is good and that
there is no fraud The first Is by placing
thr sfoue IN the mouth, for then, if it Is
GOOD -. lap.and attaches itself immedi-
eetolv to'thr palate. Inc other is to
place il in glass full of water, and i'm
medlAtely, il il is genuine, the water be-
gins to boil
Thcyeno. says in his Voyages, page
Of tbaf srlke.stones were made o. the
Ashes Of Ii root Of Ia certain plant, mixed
with r-tiyulr kind OF clay. Some
make stness APPEAR to have baen made of
, crorrad he. See, for an exhaustive ac-
c,nnt of is suoject, Ylle BarneIl, Anglo
inJi,n G5ssaryl. The belief IN their
att;n,rv . still very general IN India; by
s,r,n ih. are ,upposed to be tuund in the
ne,d of ne adjutant bird ) e Jungle
, Life in ..di4, page %
Francco RsdI descrloes In his "Exper-
:. menta amsterdam, 1867, pages 70 s.,
+ the extraordinary healing powers attrib.
r ntal r. .,rna obtained from the heads of
car,a;n serents called toy the French
d .r,rh1. de capeilo.' found throughout
uSnlno.,ar and Farther Ip9ia. These
! atonaO l,n srs lined TO be an infalibe rem
> oJY I for 4. 1ites and stings Of all kinds of
!; mem M ). rsptiles or animals, and like
T. r;aa 6. lada made b. pois med arrows,
4: a," ,0 p rpeats the usual tales of their
r aJha,te Jh p4werfully when applied to the
:! S;.a - . vi end, and clinging TO ii like a
E, 80, ,," lass until they had absorbed all
ny .bap T. ~, when they would fall off spon-
T. ta,rr ,nn 1eG4ing the man or animal
ID iJ y freQx& Then follows the account
IS II th& stones in milk to remove
", = q, milk assuming color be-
.ne ralloW md green These wonder
4; s'I and the variations concerning
r ,ha, ~, i beep brought to Italy by Catho-
y 1her onariol, who seen, to put entire
4 ~, > theif powers; so that Redi says
| Z ~xzA 4<S& hn -, lr
!" 'he of experiments, such as would
nv the most increduous, and
sa to medical men that Galen
pi orrect Fhen he wrote (chapter
y. ok II THAT certain medicines attract
IA tht magnet does iron. For this
o . search ior vipefs, etc, was rec.
1.ndcd, buJ, the season baing later
'tbcolder then usual, none could at that
lhbe obtained, "a they bad not emerged
rohheir vinter quarters. An expert
zen was therefore substituted, after
ulponsultation among the learned men
the cademy of Pisa, whereby oil of
'acc vas introduced into the leg OF a
's.S This was regarded as one of the
81 =: fat of such substances, and was ad-
~: tertN by lmpregnating thread with
4 XtiNit vi IDuE LHEtIc
~ 'nngtkhe punctured wound One of
.Ie ks torthwith applied the stone,
mnioua n we'd in the regular manner de
Se,ioel L lie bird did not recover, but il
a'i .ai Nise .,ht hours, to the admiration of
.ns non a1d other spectators of the ex-
+ Up tot. r,asa,t Tim. M one has ANNA,
!entiy iunl fed what Tavernicd referred
- III sPeaA Of snake-stone, it. however,
occutIeu writer, after receiving a
tfuahsi.y OF ',asheer from Or. +. II NAL
lie., " .ne se3gcal survey of India, who
9o'd.hou 10 ate bazaar of the Calcutta
iair III NoveM OF 1888, tha; the Indian
h sn"he s'ohe u violently tabasheer. Ia
oas,leei = va ty of opal that is found
A me Join.s OF .tain species of bamboo
Ca; it is originally ;,;ca wh;rh hv go
aa.on ,sa. .L onanses lns mucilaginous state.
ranges f,om t.anslu NJ 70 on'nna - oo -
found it either VIII, or bI,,;sn III - Io'9i H
reflected light, and l,e yaIlnw =, .Io a,;ay ~
cherry red by transItted I;,ht mish. ms
fracture it breaks il, ;rraea,i, ni. Gpoh
like starch. As in Ta,-n;sr,s at aoaaan. p.eces