Two Cases of Rattlesnake Bite.
A snake charmer named Reilly, while exhibiting a venomous rattlesnake at High Bridge, New York, on a recent Sunday, was bitten in the hand and died in great agony. "His death," says the New York Tribune, "will do much to dispel the popular notion that such a bite is comparatively harmless if only the proper antidote is at hand; and that the proper antidote is a great deal of whisky. This is precisely the cure that Reilly tried. He realized his danger, and quickly swallowed about a quart of whisky which was near by. As he was not a man who was accustomed to it, the liquor probably had its full effect, and if the cure was good for anything it should have worked in his case. But it did not, and nothing that the physicians were able to do proved any more effective than the whisky."