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How TO CURE The BITE OF RATTLE
sEAKE.-As this is the season OF the year whea
accidents frequently happen from the bite of Rat.
tlesnakes and other yenomous serpenIs. ii may not
be arliss ts offer 2 few remarks in rd 10 the
cure eff them.


In the first place-when person i. bitten, a
crucial incision should be made with some sharp
instrument the vound, and the POISON shonId
be Withdrawn by applying the mouth to the wound
This may be done with safety, for the poison onl4
acts By absorption. In the next place an alkali
should be applied. Ammonia or Hartshorn is
the best, and if this is not AZ hand strong solu-
ton of Potash or Saleratus shonld be applied,
keeping the wound constantly wet with it.


The virus or poison appears 10 be acid, and is
decomposed by alkali. This should be applied
as soon as possible; in order that the poison NAV
be decomposed before being absorbed


Ammonia should also be taken internally. IN
dsses Of Ten drops Of the Aqua Ammonia or spir-
IT'S OF Hartshorn, IN water, or from ten 10 twenty
grains of the Carbonate, Salts of Hartshern dis
solved in water.


If this mode of treatment should be irnmedi.
ately put in practice, in every instance, very few
deaths would ensue, and in NEST cases but little
inconvenience wond result from snake bites


Medical aid should be procured Us soon as pos
u,
should the cure be delayed if medical aid is nos
al ihana for time in su ha case IS ever. thing.


Any person can perio1m the clre by merely suck
ing the princips! part of the poison froa, the
wound, and neutralix;ns shat may remain by means
of alkalis.


Sweet oil has been recommended as an efec,ual
remedy, to be applied To TIE wound and ,aken in
terneily but It's effects are doubtful. 1t MAJ be
used when the other remedies c5nnet he readily
procured. TJonesvill (Michl Exnositor.


The CEsTsRr PL4sr-We learn that our en-
terprising townsman, Bernard Duke has one of
the One Hundred Year Towering ,.lue, Agaye
Americana, n0w IN the finest str,e of iogescence
The flower stem alone is over twenlg feet in.
hight, covered with lateral branches, at the es.
,remity of and along which are thick clusters of
flowers. The plant is said TO be most imposing
in appearance, end will, no doubt, attract thou.
sands Of yisiters. FhiIa. Am. Sentinel.