Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1893 — The Chicken Remedy For Suake Bite [ARTICLE]

The Chicken Remedy For Suake Bite

A cure of rattlesnake bite by the chicken remedy is reported from Madison county, Ga., and the incident has recalled other like cures in that region in time past. The remedy is to kill a chicken and apply the flesh as quickly as possible to the wound; the poison, it is assumed, is absorbed by the chicken flesh. The patient in this instance was badly bitten, but suffered little inconvenience and was soon quite well. There is a belief in Geor gia that if the snake infiieting the wound is caught and killed and its flesh similarly applied a cure will surely result.

Professor Brander Matthews, of Columbia College, will write in St. Nicholas during the coming year a series of carefully prepared articles upon the men who have given America a literature. Though brief, simple in style, and easy for young readers to understand, these papers will not only contain an account of the authors’ lives, but will point out the distinguishing literary qualities that have made them famous. The studies will include Irving, Cooper, Bryant, Poe, Hawthorne, Emerson, Longfellow, Lowell and Whittier.

Mr. Agnew, the London art dealer, has given to the print room at the British Museum some two score etchings and engravings after pictures by Burne-Jones, Rosetti, Landseer, Lawrence, Gainsborough and other British artists, living and dead. Although the museum receives copies of all illustrated books in England, it depends for etchings and engravings on the gifts of the generous. “ New York health officers have been busy vaccinating all public employes, workers in large stores, factories and mills, and among the poor during the past two weeks.

Gen. Ballington Booth, commander of the Salvation Army, has had his authority to celebrate marriages questioned by the register of vital statistics in New York. The General declares that he is a regularly Ordained minister.