Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1893 — Cure for Warts. [ARTICLE]

Cure for Warts.

Moehan's Monthly: In almost all country gardens in Pennsylvania thero are patches of the milkweed, known to botany as euphorbia eyporissias. It has no particular beauty, and it has been a subject of some interest why it was so universally planted. One friend who inquired was made to beliovo thut it was generally used in the olden time, when people used the herbs of tho garden for modicino instead of calling in the family physician for every trilling thing. This plant was used to cure warts. It is said that the milk from the broken stem placed on the surface of the wart will cause it to disappear within a week or two, witjiopt pain or suffering. The plant is curious, although not showy, and in the olden times curious flowers were planted in gardens as well as those which had an interest solely from their gay color. It may be that the plant had «in interest in this line, although not particularly showy.

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The solar system is well illustrated by tho following statements: Let the Bun be represented by a globe two feot in diameter. A grain of mustard seed at the circumference of a circle 104 feet in diameter will adequately represent the size and distance of Mercury. The earth will be represented by a pea on the circumference of a circle 284 feet across, and Venus by another pea, on the outside of a 430-foot circle. Mars will be adequately represented by a pin-head at 054 feet, and the Asterlods by grains of sund 1,000 to 2,000 feet away. An orange at the distance of half a mile will stand for Jupiter, a very small apple at four-fifths of a mile will answer for Saturn, and a cherry on the circumference of a circle a mile and a half across will represent Uranus,