The Superstition cf the ted-)n.
The ancients ascribed eeuliar
virtues to the wwrty of stone called
ammoni cor hit-, "fctech was supposed
to possess the property of extracting
tfce 5r6s from bites inflicted by mad
U&8'6r venomous reptiles. Pliny
atlfides td it under the above name,
and it fcas since received the appel
lation of ammonite , both terms refer
ring to its resemblance in shape to
the "horns which surround the head
5f Jupiter Ammon. It has also in
mere modern times, been popularly
known as the mad stone and the
snake stone. Scientifically speaking,
it is the fossil petrification of an ex
tinct mollusk, closely resembling the
KAutilus, having a spiral, symmetric
tal, and chambered shell, varying in
size from a small bean to that of a
large cart-wheel. In the East Indies
and China it has for ages enjoyed
the reputation mentioned.
In the fourth volume of the Medi
cal Repository, an old journal pub-
lishen in New York in the begin
ning of the present century, may be
found a communication from a Vir
ginia gentleman, entitled. "The
Chinese Snake stone and its op
eration as an Antidote to Poison."
Ibis remarkable stone, it appears,
was brought from Bombay in 1740,
and a portion of it subsequently came
into the hands liev. Mr. Chaustem,
of Frederic County, who employed
it in caseslof snake and dog bites. The
writer describes now nis nine aaugn
ter having been bitten by a mad dog,
he was induced to carry 1 er to Mr.
Chaustsin in order f o obtain for her
the benefit of his remedy, having
been told that the stone, which was
in three pieces, would adhere to no
wound except one afflicted by a ser
pent 'or a mad dog. He tried the ex
periment by placing a piece on two
scratches on the child's body occas
ioned by a recent fall, but it imme
diately dropped off. On being ap
plied, however, to the dog bite, it at
once took hold like a leech, and con
tinued to stick for eight hours; and
the other twopeices adhered success
ively an equal length of time before
they fell off. They were then im
mersed in hot water, when in a short
time, a number of small bubbles be
gan to rise, and a scum like oil of a
greenish-yellow color, soon covered
the surface. The pieces were after
ward dried in warm ashes. Mr.
Chaustein exhibited a certificate!
which accompanied the stone from
Bombay, and which attested its effi
cacy in extracting venom from the
bites of all poisonous animals. Anoth
er piece was in the possession of
Mr. Joseph Fredd, of Louden
County Ya. These wonderful stones
, doubtless still exist with virtues still
'unimpaired a profitable inheritance
for those whose privelige it is to be
stow their inestimable boon upon
credulous humanity. Popular Sci
ence Monthly.
THE BEST WPER. TRY IT.
Postage Free.
BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED.
The SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, now in
its 30th year, enjoys the widest circulation
of any weekly newspaper of its kind in the
world. A new volume commences January
4. 1875.
Its contents embrace the latest and most
interesting information pertaining to the
Industrial, Mechanical and Scientific Prog
ress of the world. : Descriptions, with beau
tiful engravings of new inventions, new im
plements, new processes, and improved in
dustries of all kinds: useful notes, receipts,
suggestions, and advice, by practical writers,
for workmen and employers, in all the va
rious arts.
The Scxkctotc Axibican is the cheapest
and best illustrated weekly paper published.
Every number contains from 10 to 15 orig
inal engravings of new machinery snd nov
el inventions.
ENURAVIXiS, illustrating improve
ments, discoveries and important works,
pertaining to civil and mechanical engineer
ing, milling, mining and metallurgy; ree"
ords of the latest progress in the application
of atonm, steam engineering, railways, ship
building, navigation, telegraphy, telegrah
engineering, electricity, magnetism, light
and beat.
FARMERS, mechanic, engineers, in
ventors, manufacturers, chemists,, lovers of
science, teachers, clergymen, lawyers and
people of all professions, will find the Sci
xxtific American useful to them. It should
have a place in every family, library, study,
office, and counting room; in every reading
room, college, academy, or school.
A year's number contains 832 pages and
several hundred engravings. Thousands
of volumes are preserved for binding and
reference. The practical receipts are well
worth ten time9 the obseription price.
Terms, $3 20 a year by mail, including post
age. Discount to clubs. Special circulars
and specimens sent free. May be had of
news dealers.
Hgjfy,! rJ "MTX In connection
with the Scientific America. Messrs.
Mesne & Co. are solicitors of American and
Foreign patents, and have the largest estab
Kahment ia the world. More than fifty
thousand applications have been made for
patents through their agency.
Patents axe obtained on the best terms,
models of new inventions and fetches ex-
amined and advice free;: A spiHal notice is
made in the SciXNnrtO Axnfcas of all in
ventions patented through thinajaney. with
; the nam and residence of the patentee.
Patents are often sold in part or who'e. to
persons attracted to the invention by lsuch
none. Send for pamphlet, 119 pages con
taining laws and full 'direction for obtain
ing natents.
Address for paper, or concerning patents, t
MUXN& CO.. 37 Park Row, N. Y. Branch f
onu-c,
cor. F aud 7th tit.
Wasbingt-n, f
Ilstesclaolders.
Send in your names, and if you are
unable to pay in advance we xcill send
you the Ikdefzsdcst and wait on you
a year, lb clnbs of five we will send
the InDKTEJfDEjrr for one year for $10;
and for clubs of ten or more we will
send the Independent one year for
$20 00 with an extra number to the
getter vp of the club.
VJnr Claim Agency
Ho 34 nouTaonEES'
BAN FRANCISCO. CAL.
:o:
W. H. AIKEN, Attorney-at-law and Com
mander of the Grand Armj of the Republic
in California and Nevada, will give prompt
attention to the collection of Additional
Travel Pay, now due California and Nevada
Yolnnteera discharged more than three hun
dred milea from home. Soldiers can depend
on fair dealing. Information given free of
charge. When writing enclose stamp for
reply and state company and regiment an
whether yon have a discharge. Congress
has extended the time for filing claim for
additional Bounty nnderAct of July 28.18GG
to January 1875, so all such claims must be
made before that time. Original Bounty of
$100 has been allowed all volunteers who
enlisted before July 22d,1861 for three years
if not paid the same, when discharged. Land
Warrants can be obtained for services ren
dered before 1855 but not for services in
the late war. Pensions for late war and
war of 1812 obtained and increased when al
lowed for less than disability warrants, but
no pensions are allowed to Mexican and
Florida war soldiers. State of Texas has
frranted Pensions to surviving veterans of
Texas Revolution, New Orleans and Mobile
Prize Money is now due and being paid. Vf
H. Aik n also attends to General law and
and Collection Business.
i n20.-Cm
B OFFER FOR BALK II T PROPERTY
in Forest Grove, consisting of a house
.nrl 75148 feet of laud in Lot No. 1 of
Rloek No. 3. in Forest Grove, fc'aid pror
erty I will sell subject to a mortgage of $250
with interest whjch expires Nov. 4, 1875, and
$250 cash in hand. This property is situa
4mA in tti heart of the town and is a valua
ble site for a fine dwelling.
For further particulars inquire of STEPH
EN BLANK! Forest Grove, or
11. B. L.UCE.
Hillsboie Or.
Important Nsrtic.
The INDEPENDENT hm Bee e
right of publishing litigant pricing
for Washington county and cwfttt'ts
alt the news of our County Courts and
all the home news, which no other pa
per publishes, therefore every man in
the county need the INDEPEND
ENT and should immediately sub
scribe for it.
Free of Postage
Under the new postal law subscri
bers in the county will not have to pay
postage on their county paper, so send
n your names for the ixuiui
ENT.
Notice r Administrator.
THE UNDERSIGNED HAVING BEEN
appointed by the County Court of the
State of Oregon for Washington county Ad
ministrator of the estate of G. M. Raymond
deceased, all . persons having claims
against said estate are hereby notified to
present them to the undersized at the of
fice of Thos. H. Tongue m HiIIsloro, ah-
lngton county, Oregon, with the proper
vouchers within six months from the date
hereof.
THOMAS "W. SAINE.
Hillsboro, Dec, 3d, 1874. n37;w4
APPLETOnS'
New Kevised.Editlon.
!ntir1v rewritten bv the ablest writers on
every subject. Printed from new type, and
illustrated with Several Thousand Engrav
ings and Map.
The work oris inally pubis bed under the
title of Thx New Amebicax Ctciopidu
was completed in 18G3. since which time
the wide circulation whith it has attained
in all parts of the United State, and the
signal developments which have taken place
in every branch of science, literature, and
art, have induced the editors and publikherH
to submit it to an exact and thorough revis
ion, and to issue a new edition entitled
Tns American Cwxofxdia.
Within the last ten years the progress of
discovery in eveiy department of knowl
edge has mack new work of reference an
imperative want.
The movement of political affairshas kept
paee with the Aiscowries of science, and
their fruitful application to the industrial
and useful arts and the convenience .and re
finement of oeiallife. Great wars and con
sequent revolutions have ocenred, involv
ing national changes of peculiar moment.
The civil war of our own country, which
was at its height when the last volume of
the old work appeared, has happily been
ended, and a new course of commercial
and industrial attivity has been com
menced. Large accessions to our geographical
knowledge have been made by the indefati
gable explorers of Africa.
The great political revolutions f the last
decade, with the natural result of the lapse
of time, have nought into publie view a
multitude of new men, whose names are in
every one's month, and of whose lives every
one is curious to know the particulars.
Great battles have Wen fought and import
ant sieges maintained, of which the details
are a yet preserved only in the newspa
pers or in the transient publications of the
day, but whith ought now to take their
place in permanent and anthentic hstory.
In preparing the present edition for the
press, it has accordingly been the aim of
the editors to bring down the information
to the latest possible dates, and to furnish
dn accurate account of the most recent dis
verit. in science, of every fresh produc
tion in liteiature. and of the latest inven
tions in the practical arts, as well as to give
succinct and original record of the prog
ress of political and historical events.
The work has been begun after long and
careful preliminary labor, and with the
mo Kt ample resources for carrying on to a
successful termination.
None of the original stereotype plates
have beeen trsed, hut every page has been
printed on new type, forming in fact a new
Cyclopaedia, with the same plan and com
pass as its predecessor, but with a far great
er pecuniary expenditure, and with such
improvements in its composition as have
been suggested by longer experience and en
larged lnrawledge.
The illustrations which are introduced
for the first time hi the present edition have
been added not for the sake of pictorial ef
fect, but to Rive greater lucidity and force to
the explanations in the text. Ibey embrace
all branches of science and of natural histo
ry, and depict the most famous and remark
able features of scenery, architecture, and
art, as well as the various processes of me
chanics and manufactures. Although in
tended forinstruction rather than embellish
ment, no pains have been spared to insure
their artistic excellence; the cost of their
execution is enormous, and it is believed
they will find a welcome reception as an ad
mirable feature of the Cyclopaedia, and
worthy of its high character.
This work is sold to Subscribers only,
payable on delivery of each volume. It will
be completed in sixteen targe octavo vol
umes, each containing about 800 pages,
fully illustrated with several thousand Wood
Engravings, and with numerous colored
Lithographic- Maps.
Price and Style of Binding.
Jn extra Cldtk, per vol $5.00
In Library htatktr, per cwl-, 5.00
In Half Tu r Avw . Jfcrroeo, per vol., .-. . 7.00
Jn Half Ttwrin, etira gilt, per voL,.. R.00
In Full Monaco, antique, giM eeTges, . .
per vol.,"" 10,00
In Full Russia, per vol., . v . 10.00
Four volumes now ready. Succeeding
volumes, until completion, will be issued
once in two months. '
" Specimen pages of the AmnueAX
CYGborzmA, showing type, illustrations,
etc., will be sent gratis, on application.
FiKST-CiAss Cawvasstho Aoewts wasted
Address the Publishers,
D. A PPL ET0N& CO.,
549 Broadway. N. T.
n 2
MgjMBjjlMMMMEMSMSilWSSyaBfrBSniWSeSMSSMSMSMSS
SHERMAN & HYDE'S COLUMN
FlAtJQC!
UOIG.
Sherman & Hyde
COR-tKEARNY JSUITER STREETS,
San Franeiseo.
WHOLKSALK AXD BIT AIL D SAL CHS IX
DEBT MUSIC. MUSICAL INSTBU-
HEUTS and nUSICAL"
XlXRClIAnDISS.
SHERMAN fc HYDE.
raeie Coast Agents.
THE UNRIVALED
WEBER PIANO.
By the Superiority of its Tone, combining
TtirnnrKH.Sweetness and Fine
Singing Quality, as well as Great Purity of
Intonation and' Harmoniousness throughout
the entire scale, it is fast driving almost all
other Tianos from the Concert Room, and
fully explains how WKllEK shows an in
crease of 20S per cent., and yet cannot sup
ply the demand.
-:o:
AGENTS WANTED, in every eoanty la
the State, for the Clbratd
. . . .wHicn oa. . . .
Volumt & Purity of Tone,
Beauty of C&m,
Superiority f T7orkmanjhp.
Elegance of Finish,
and Durability
e
ARB UN Rl VALID.
Sherman & Hyde's
PIANO,
Is tha only FIRST CLASS IN
STRUMENT sold for
C400
The Square Pianos are 7J oetave.and em
braces allfModern Improvements, sneh ss
Elegant Rosewood Case, Beautiful Mould
ings, Full iron Frame. Carved Leg and
Lyre, Over-strung Bass. Agraffe Treble etc.
Length, 6 feet 10 inches; Width 3 fee. t
inches, and
ARB FULLY WIHHMED
FOR TEH YEARS.
Ve keep eenstantly on hand a good assert
ment of
7i OctaveAgraffe Treble
MADE FROM TIIE BEST SEASOKEp
MATERIAL, AND
FULLY WARRANTED.
KttCES AS LOW AS WORTHLESS mOS CAlt
BE OBTAX2CED SLSETTHZBI
PIANOS AND ORGANS
SOLO OK KAST WSTAIAMETS.IT K ESI RED.
CALL ASD SEE TJS BEFORE PUB-
chaim;.
n3X:ly
To the Unfortunate
Ke vr RemedlcTxcw Remedies
DR. GUIDON'S
053 Kearney M.
Corner Commercial Ct
SAN FRANCISCO.
Established in 1854. for the treatment t
Sexual and Seminal Diseases, such as Oo
norrhea. Gleet, Stricture, Srphillis in all its
forms. Seminal Weakness, tup'toucy. etc.
Skin diseases (of years standing) ud Ul
cerated Legs, successfully treated.
Dll. GlliRON has the pie sa of sn
nouring that he has returned from visiting
the principal Hospitals of Europe, snd has
resumed practice. at hisDispeusary,623Kear
ney street, corner of Commercial, San Fran
cisco, where his old patients and those re
quiring his service may find him.
The Doctor haspare4 twither time nor
money in seeking out xrew rrmedies.and has
returned with increased facilities for the al
leviation of human suffering.
Seminal Wtafcnesft.
Seminal emission, the conseqneee of self
abuse. This solitary vice, or depraved set
ual indulgence, is practiced hy the youth of
both sexes to almost unlimited e-xtrnt, pro
ducing, with unerringcertaliQr the following
train of morbid symptoms tntcss combated
by scientific medical measures, vis: Sallow
counttnance.dark spots under the eyes, pain
in the head, ringing In the ears, noise like
rustling of leaves and rattling of chariots, un
easiness about the loins, weakness of
i.- i;,u Mafntoil viiAn blunted intellect.
,,taiw , - - .
loss of confidence, diffidence in approaching
cr.ki...ru m. i;'iL to form cew acouaiotan-
ivii a lisrMKitinn to shun soeietv. loss of
niemory.bectic flushes, pimples snd various
eruptions about the face.furred tongue.fottid
KraHi jvuinrlia mnniiuiT)tion. nicrht sweats.
monomania and frequently inaamty.If relief
be not obtained the sufferer should apply im
mediately either by person or by letter, and
have a cure effected by his now and scientific
troatiniT thim 1iliftMA- which MXT
fails of effecting a quick and radical eure.Dr
... . i r a. .
G. will giveune jiuuaretouan uj vr-
son who will prove satisfactorialy' to Lin
that he was cured of this complaint by el
ther of the San Francisco qnacks.
m ar
vumi us -,
Tersons at a distance may be CUBED AT
. ... i .
HUME by atklrCKKing A leuer o ur. uiuron,
stating cane, symptoms, length of time the
disease has continued, and have medicines
promply forwarded, free from damage and
curiosity, to any part of the country, with
full and plaiu directions for use.
Persons writing to the Doctor will please
state the name of the paper they saw this
advertisement in.
By inclosing $10 coin. In a registered let
ter tli rnu rh the PoKtOffice.or throushWells,
Fartm A Co.. a rmckace of medicine will be
forwarded to any part of tbe Union.
All r.nrrmintii1i.ii( ktriftW c nnfidential.
AcMess Dlt. J. F. GIlUHN.Karnv St.,
San JrrantiHco. rcfctoHiee nox 1,107.
se;24:l
!
THE HEW IMPB0VED
Cid9 Feed and Bck Feed.
THE LIGHTEST RUNNING, MOST till
TIE, AND MOST EASILY OPERATED
SEWING MACHINE IN THE MARKET.
Ah::; ia Qricr uifieiijforWKk.
If .- i a FLORENCE MACHIHE
w a 039 tbontiad milas ef 8a Fraa.
c'kcj to! working wtll, I will fix it with
cut caj aipense to thoovMr
SAXUSL 2XXLL, Agent,
Ho. 13 Now Montgomery Street,
GruXD HOTEL BUlLEIJtO,
r
Alt TOARCUCO.
n33i
r P. FISHER.
Advertising Agent.
Booms 5o. t0 m4 t, Dsrcfcttit's Bs-
change. California 8trcet,sn rrancisco,
SOLICITS ADVERTISEMENTS AND
Subscriptions for theForest Grove Inde
pendent and for pupers published in Oali
fornia, Oregon and Nevada; Washington,
Utah, Idaho, Montana, Colorado and adja
cent Territories ;Sandwich Islands, the Brit
ih ToHHeRsions, Mextean rotts, Nicaragua.
Panama, Valparaiso, Japan and China; New
Zealand and the Aortralian Colonies, the
Atlantit States and Europe.
Has created many ft new nnslness;
Ha enlarged many an old business;
Has revived many a dull business!
Has rescued many a lost business;
Has saved many a failing business ?
Has preserved many a large busine ss ;
And insures success in any business.
Gikasd's Secbkt. Stephen Otrard used
to ssy.in his old age: "I have always con
sidered advertising liberally and long to bo
the great medium of succeas in busineas,and
the prelude to wealth. And I have made.il
an invariable rule tj advertise in the dullest
times ss well as the busiest; long experience-
having taught me that money thus spest t
well laid out, as by continually keeping at
business before the publio it hss seeured'
many sales thatl otherwise would haveloat.'
K37The man who didn't believe in adves
sine hns gone into partnership with the
eriff.aud tttat official does the advertiew
1
z v3 i,
jUttSCMMM 1 suoscRinn
WASUINCITOtt IXDEriXDWXT
4 journml i4t$Ui Y ft inlermt mf
Wmshingf County d sf W
SUUs.
The JNDEPJCNDKjrr ee
fisnew is n party hui the
f PROG RCSM ITS TDK AM
REFORM; it ntflled hy
Clique, Tmeiiom mr ieeeiy; 14
it the fearle mnA eiimbm
AD TQCAtBifiePtaPlJL
XOTTCB The JJfDBPSNDBirf
hmtth 90U right efdeinj Iks
LITIGANT PRINTIXa
fer Washington Ctvntymnd 4e
therefore invlubJtf U sfsvr
jon PtilNTIIf O DONK TfV
onoun
-
D. 1