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Show to be used oftener, where people have w real (!i-rT. The whole tradition of the r.u'.dstone comes from the ab-;-T:' P-v.-rr of any anhydrous mineral. min-eral. , ... -h a Mono i:; filled with pores and by .1 prow,, akin to that of capillary capil-lary :::!: ."i-.n IN- v.-.f-r that it has lost-in the coarse of centuries, per-haps-it will soak up ai-..hi when in t 1 If t know the action of a ma tone let him put a pi.vc of tabasheercr dry elav or shale to his tomnie. It will slick. That is all there is to it. There are millions of tons of inadstonc in every slate in the union, and every family can afford to be without it. These stories of mysterious mys-terious stones that have cor.10 from the far eat or that were bought at enormous enor-mous price:-, from voodoos and hoodoos and wi.-ar.i:. are all iii:inli:r. ir.-i person per-son is bitten by :. s:ia;.e or a th," it will do him no harm to clap a chip of anhydrous anhy-drous stone to the cut surface. It will stick-, just as it will to his tongue or his eye or a ilar.ip saucer or a Urooklvn street or the surface of a bar. but let him likewise consult a physician. HUMEUG ABOUT MADSTONES. Merely i'i'.rcs of Aiiiiy.ln.u.i Material V.tiich liitv.' tlie I'owev or Absorption. The maiViono story is going its round;; n;rain. It is the property of this wonderful rgent to stick to a raw surface i fie: h and suck the poison out of it. That is, the owners say so. As a matter of fact, says the Brooklyn Eagle, no inorganic subsfan.ee can suck except by the ai.l of machinery. Again, in ninety-nine caes out of a hnnib'ed the dog bites are harmless and there is no poison to be sucked out, Thirdly, credulity is one of the most effective cures in the materia medica and ought |
