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Remedy for Hydrophobia.-Some negroes
about Norfolk, (Virg.) have charm it is said, in
their possession, to cure Hydrophobia. They are
series of pebbles called snake stones, which have
received the impress of this enchantment from
early tradition, and been handed down as all heir
loom.


The Norfolk Beacon speaks Of child bitten by
a mad dog, as is alleged, the wound caused by
which has been so far successfully treated by the
application of the stone, which is covered with
SKIN, and seems to extract the poison from the in
IJured part. Although the statement is said to he
well authenticated, it must be cassed, we think,
among the thousand other superstitions that the
mind, grasping for some refuge from deplora-
bic nalady over which the medical art possesses
no CONTROL clings to, as it were, in despair, how
ever preposterous it may seem, rather than aban-
don all hope that providence has not furnished us
withsome antidote, however mysterious, against an
evil at which, of all others, the world shudder
with horror.