VIRTUE OF MADSTONES. SAID TO CURE BITES FROM MAD | DOGS AND SNAKES. | 4 is Nothing Else Than Tabasheer, a | Variety of Opal Found in the Joints | ef Ceriain Species ¢f Bamboo—Tha | Snakestone Does Its Work by Ab- sorptioi., Som ed by alleged venomuos insects, dogs, which have eomplished both in Chicago by means stones which are power of absorbing wounds—that it may 1 aiteation to the fact that for centuries | past have been current regard ing th or imaginary, of While, of course, for skepticism con- r the cures at- amount subject ha been of and even recen this nas cur Aarouss i of uch discussion the 3 Wi bite of 8 mad | been ac y and in madstones— to have the | from | ya timely to call | ly of asserted poisons rion rtues, real kind. room this still cerning the ] trib 1 thereto,the of literature deaiing should sufficient the ridicule *h of immense with the to tect it from has heen excited ther: with amon : tif be pri whi connection xlement The the the tiste of the scier madstone, makestone, Travels in Tavernier, traveler “of who describe shape, ck thin toward follows: “The grows on the heads But I should rather the of tae ido them think so, and 2 composition whicl tain has an all the “en by Dart 0a es tae #1 a it as the 3 in the ed Indiar thi priests drugs. excellent poison a pol bitten is SAry blood has neres and axtracted drawn to 43 steeped in Whatever when S0Rn0°1 not I to make may flow been does all it iL. sione the en of a cow, steeped for milk all the venom, assumes matter (pus) Ons { dined with the Archbishop o fook me into his had man curl alas adie iy . showed day when 7 Go * he and, in assured three days of after which present me. As he traversed a marsh island of Salsetto, upon which Goa is situated, on his way to a house in the ountry, one of his palanquin bearers, who was almost naked, was bitten a and was at once cured £his stone I have bought many of them You employ two methods 0 ascertain {f the snakestone good and there no fraud first is by placing the stone tae mouth. For good, it attaches itself immediately to the palate. The other is place in a glassful of water, and !mmed}- ately, if it is genuine, the water begins to boil n The me telling things, stones, perties, ) made a trial ed it to on the since he had is hy ae by b 10 $ wv serpent, Y is in then, If it is to it “yr ‘Voyage snakestones India idred years to thesa that the very g only 80 among als of the Ro contain authenticated sffected by the snakestones as an “Infallibl and stin repti enoral Matra. the dlons likewise sounts, duaiy mention remedy for all sorts of animals, and by poisoned ar- ing them i e the bites gs of venomous les and lik»wise wounds made There is the is According Kunz, who has maie a special study el subject, the so-called mad- stone is nothing else than tahasheer, well known to mineralogists Taba- sheer is a veriety of opal that is to! be found in the joints of certain spe- | ¢ies of bamboo in Hindustan, Burmah and Soutan America. It is originally | 2 jt ice, which, by evaporation, changes | into a mucilaginous state, and then Decomes a solid substance. [It ranges | from translucent to opaque in color, and upon fracture it breaks into reg. siar pieces, like starch. Dr. Kunz de- tlares that, with regard to Tavernier's | account of the madstone clinging to! the palate and causing water to boil | when immersed, tabasheer has the property of strongly adaereing to the ongue, and when ut into water tmitis rapid streams of minute bub Slea of air. It almost identical with | in organic product found Arnold Hague In the gevers of Yellow stone Park, and which has received the name of Colorado hydrophane, The later, like tabasheer, has an ex. | traordinary capacity for the absorp | tion of fluid, and this undoubtedly | renders it efficacious for the purpose | of absorbing poinson from a wound, | providing the latter is open enough. It may be added that tabashesr, form- | srly known as tabixir, was known and used in Persia by the principal De] i that | or madstone every reason to bel so-called snakestone i ‘lusively an Indian product. to Dr. George Frederick ve ox the by the clans of the rulers of that empire far back as in the tenth century Jur era. as of al very important part in the medicine | of the Middle Ages. i In conclusion. {t mav he mentionad Indeed, tabashesr plays that tabasheer, {ts various properties | and its history, constitutes the sub. | ject of a remarkable work published by Dr. Ernest Huth in Berlin, in 1886, and that much concerning the iubject, as well as about the Colorade wydroph and its ralation to the tones and nes of Indin South America, in annals of the Ne aldemy dally contributed by Dr New York Tribune "w ane Snes 1 k¢ 5 wii found Yorg A among Georges and ba ' W th espe erick Kunz.- CARNEGIE STUDENTS. ha cts Upon Character of the Dona tion to Glasgow University. Effe Prin hig addr gow Univers recently, as yi ipal Story, \ to the ity oes know vy, the great through the nu the Unis to produc feared, Was, have on tending it was was, he av ts untarnished ar unsapped and hardll ircumstances » the depen that the not braci Univ if its al know lenial. The 3 tie purpose imni that its funct knowledge derstand fon ta ‘ulcate nly, i e stalwart not to easiest principle to mold to train merely a degree ir t itaelf, them for the learning for its own sake, to God and Bird Charmer of the Tuileries. A crowd of Americans } may be se daily at the entertainin g performance ri Tuilerie esanx ¥ garden of the char ur des mie and fascinated mu arrows than one we can Ar *3 and name is oi hem all by name beging to harmer knov As soon audience a few each n takes and in one or the pocket ns ng to TOWS, Or cs shook that a o “Now such thing has hut the not happened for ide of the scene was days voars: pathetic considerably on hear later locked up spoiled a few ng that he had heen using language to a lady | whose contributions failed to satisfy him —Philadelphia Telegraph f i abusive or Worship of the Hand-Made. The ancestral mahogany bedstead that now an honored ornament in every family had but its age and as fates recommend it, but of the bequeathed bedstead or the future it will be sald not only that “it belonged | grandmother,” but that “it was The making of one's own furniture is now a recog: nized domestic industry, and in these days when one wants a new hall seat, | instead of going to the furniture deal er's to get one, it {a customary to re. tire to the workshop avd create one It ail but a part of the modern democratic oraving for aelf expres. sion. and, whereas, but a limited num. ber of people can pour forth their souls in sonnets, thers are many who is 8O¢ to to ia course this new worship of the hand- | made is regarded by many as but a | passing fad, while these high-class | workshops are looked upon as safe | ployment for idle hands. But in | reality there is a deeper significance behind this new Interest, and those who have given themselves up to it confess to an enthusiasm in their work and a new zest to life in + ral that argues well for the future & Ha of arts and crafts socleties and the | future banishment of that dreaded foe nf sociaty annul « wxrsiml as Hew Wasi coliars wh pale and green pale Oth- in fine : 1 ana grees or pale 100 + style are An Expensive Dress Pad, Parasol, hat 10 mal of the expensive fads, It effective wit! at 14 Ty CORT UINCS, 1 amd girdle clyare t 1 dress is one very fashion white or linen colored The Modish White Plame. ve milliners are just now ex. JACKET. t ite plumes on Lig amd modish way, scoming ina . > TT : t . 3 tint over so much more | Bhige white Woman's Shirt Walst, are among the woman ever has stylish May Man becoming to the The tucks, which give it a pleat effect to yoke depth at the Iweoming folds over waists aood 3 of which no is ¥ ery and of figures, ole is new generality arranged to are stitched only front, so forming i» ali | lines the figure. The original made of dotted chambray, but waist materials are equally suitable, The walst consists of the smoothly fitted lining, which can be used or | omitted as preferred, the fronts and the back, and is shaped by means of shoulder and underarm seams. The | back is drawn down smoothly and snugly at the waist line while the front blouses slightly the belt The | sleeves are cut in one plece, and are | full below the elbows and gathered | into straight cuffs at the wrists : The quantity of material required | for the medium gize Is four yards | twenty-one inches wide, four yards | to over BHIAT WAIST, twenty-seven luches wide, three and three-quarter yards thirtytwo inches wide or two and one-quarter yards, forty-four inclies wide www f MUST BYAND ° TO SLEEP. in Ohio Jail Wide Awake When He Lies Down. There is a prisoner in the all at Cleveland who can’t lle down He has to do all his up. This prisoner is Joe Butche, a man He iz in jall on a char larceny. The jall guards never find Bt When bed time comes he stands in a corner and takes comfortable snooze. If he is real dleepy and wishes to wake up he doesn’t take a cold bath. He goes to his cot and lies down, and in a few minutes he is wide awake. “I suppose if you are sleepier than usual you stand up in the middle of floor instead of leaning against something,” sald one of the guards, “Oh, it's all the game me,” plied Butche., “I'm all rig! I don't lle down.” The jail officials how to treat Butche, him a chair because they're too tried to git and like to have gland they're talking him. for fear bh EO to sleep, “A born policeman! deputy sheriffs.—New rm AA Odd Doings in South Africa. A Dutch traveler, just from South Africa, tells stories, He stayed for some time a valley called Baboon's Kra There he saw immense armies baboons which dally te the wells to drink, making hideous noises and paying no attention the human beings camped near by. Thess baboons were harmful enemies to the settiers in valley, for they ha¢ the habit of eatching the goats wher they were put to pasture and riding them untH the poor beasts could rur bo farther. Ome day while in camp ir Hottentot land ke heard a rushing sound, as if rails were falling in tor renta, Not far away it seemed te Lim as if a cloud bad actually begus to fall to the earth. The cloud turned out to be loensts. The planters and cattle raisers soon appeared with their men and gathered them in bage They smoked the Imsects to kill them and then dried them In the sun, after which they fed them to the dogs chickens, pige, goats and cattle. The traveler found that oxen and borset are especially fond of the locusts, agf got fat and strong during the locus season, a& do the natives, gorge themselves. Bride Was Cautious. riage of Mrs. Annle Mary years oid, and Thomas Stein, 42 years old, by Jus Murphy recently in Jersey C night not have occu: if Stein had ot, just before the ceremony, made 2 bequeathing his several of unimproved real estate ip county ap. ne itche to re it as long as don't know just They never offer afrald he's they up don’t while e'll down, him to say York some queer iv o descended to the n ity rred to wife Mrs. Zahm ove Mr. Ste im uniess he g8 too Stein sald to in, but 1 makes uncertain remarked that a “willful aust have her 3t sald make the Zahm $e ou an way,” b will declared she was not t cantious.” ——————— A Son to Be Proud of. Douglas MacArthur of Milwaukee son of Gen. Arthur MacArthur, whe won distinction as commander in the Philippines, has just graduated at the bead of his class at West Point. 50 YEARS’ EXPERIENCE Traot Marks Desians CorvmiauTs &cC. 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