The Tallahassee Madstone

The most fanious southern madstone belougs in the family of ex-Goveruor Walker of Tallahassee, Fla. The stone was presented tu the severa] years agi by the persou who took it frorn the stomach of a deer. The valuable little concretion is oblong in shupe, abont I ! . inehes in lengthandof a bluishgray color. Ouc end t.pers to a blaat poiut; the otlier is flattened aud has au aperture (hrough which the spougy, porous interior íni.v be pluinly seen. When in nse the opening is applied directly over the Vvoumi. aud the pithy snbstance which fcrms the interior of the stone is su;h!-u'ci to 'nek out" and absorb the poisonons venom. whether injected by a deadly serjieiit or a nibid dog: Persons who have secu the stone applied declare that it adhered (irnily to tho womid as long as therewas a partiële of venom íd the systc:; . -