THE YOUNG SCIENTIST. 
137 
an account of the poisoning of a number 
of small girls employed in a French arti- 
ficial flower manufactory in Greene street. 
I at once guessed the cause. I visited the 
factory mentioned, introduced myself to 
the proprietor, told him what I knew 
about the poison berries— and was rudely 
requested to make myself scarce. After 
these two adventures I made up my mind 
to keep my botanical knowledge (poison- 
ous though it might be) to myself. When 
in the army I came across a very curiouRj 
case of poisoning with swamp sumac apid 
poison ivy. A creature having the 5^orm 
of a human being, and wearing th/ie uni- 
form of a soldier, was found in a f solitary 
tent, which was pitched in an ab^andoned 
and desolated plantation. Thi.^j creature's 
body had the appearance o^- having been 
scalded, and his eyesi^-|.tit was nearly 
gone ; in fact, we were y afraid to touch 
him, fearing that he had sor^j^e terribly in- 
fectious disease. But why Wi.v3<$ he there, 
alone and deserted ? Not even a fac^,nitary 
guard over him to prevent all commu^ini- 
cation except by the doctors. He did not 
seem to care to talk much about himself 
or his situation, or state why his com- 
rades had left him there to die. Being on 
the march, all we could do was to leave 
him extra rations, water and tobacco. 
But we afterwards learned from members 
of his regiment that to avoid duty and an 
engagement, he had poisoned himself by 
building a fire of green poison ivy and 
swamp sumac, and had actually sub- 
mitted himself to a vapor bath of these 
two poisonous materials. He w^as a pro- 
fessional bounty-jumper, and had taken 
this means to get out of the arm^^ He 
was never heard of afterwards, as he fell 
into the hands of the enemy. With far- 
mers and farm-hands, in the spring of the 
year, many severe cases of poisoning have 
occurred from standing in the smoke 
when burning brush which was composed 
of poison ivy and sumac. 
Indian Clubs, and 
Them.- 
the Way to Use 
-IV. 
i BY JAMES A. SQUIRES. 
XEECISE 13 (Fig. 15).— Another 
difflcult one. The clubs are 
swung downwards, parallel to 
each other, and then raised up 
be'nind the back (as shown by the dotted 
ar-ms), then swung to the front again, and 
— Look not mournfully into the past — 
it comes not back again ; wisely improve 
the present, it is thine ; go forth to meet 
the shadowy future without fear, and 
with a manly hesLvt-^Long fellow. 
in a circle coiimpletely round at arms' 
length. The left Xv^Uib executes exactly 
the same movement as^^-tlie right in the 
last exercise (12), but with the >right club 
in this the movement is differentr^^t The 
wrist should be twisted sharply down-' 
wards, and the club tucked under the 
right arm ; its own weight will then carry 
it down behind the back, and up to a 
level and in a line with the right shoul- 
der, reaching that position exactly at the 
same time as the other club, and both 
will thus again be parallel, but on the 
opposite side of the body to that from 
which they started. 
Exercise 14 (Fig. 16).— This is purely 
wristwork. The arms are extended 
straight out on each side, and the clubs 
passed alternately from the wrists in the 
front and rear of each arm, describing 
circles on either side. At the same time 
that one club is swinging round behind 
the right arm, the other is swinging in 
front of the left, and vice versa. This ex- 
ercise causes the wrists to become very 
pliable. 
We have now completed our instruc- 
