Toe Cobra. Wo have in India," said a gentle pan, much of whose life was passed in Hiodostoo, "snakes more veno mous than are to be lound in the western' hemisphere, or even in Africa. Tbe most deadly sorpent in this country is. I suppose, the rattle enako, but hundrods of porsons havo been bitten by it and have resovcred. For the bite of the cobra in full Tiffor. however, there is no known cure. Immediately after tbe rainy season the cobra is in his worst form. lie lies dormant, while tor. rents of rain that seem like the re newal of the flood are deluging the earth, rarely coming out of the deep hole in which he finds shelter, and all that time poison is accumulating, until the bag at the root of the hol low fung is nllod to bursting. The cobra has but ono poisonous fung, and when he is undisturbed and not angry this lios flat on the jaw. But the moment an enemy appears the aspect of the cobra changes. lie as sumes an almost porpendicular posi tion, which is the only one from which he can strike. His tail is thrown into the form of a ring, and on this he stands erect. His head is bent forward, and ho makes a figure like that of an old-fasioned walking stick with a crook for a handle. A fleshy hood rises along the back of the neck and ezpans into a lan like shake behind the head, while around his flashing little eyes are bright yel low rings, looking like spectacles Seen thus, his tongue darting out and in, he is as repugnant a creature as exists. When in position for striking he can spring probably ten lect, but be is easily killed, lie never runs ff, and though he will not move toward an enemy to get within striking distance, if the intruder ap proaches him he does not retreat, and it is only necessary to stand about twenty feet off and hurl stick at him. A slight blow will break his back, and he is then pow erioss. Probably the greatest expert mentor upon snakes that ever lived was Dr. Fayrer, of Calcutta. He was particularly interested in the discovery of a euro for the bite of the cobra, for the number of lives lost by this cause every year in India is incredible. After years of careful study, and after he had ex hausted recipes sent to him from all parts of the world, he declared that thoro was no known remedy for the bite, and that a man impregnated with the poison of a vigorous cobra must die. In the course of his ex periments he made a singular dis covery, that the poison of one cobra could not kill another. A large cobra would destroy a smaller one, but only by lacerating it with his toeth, not by means of its venom. Once I stood with Dr. Fayrer in his studio when he was about to make an .experiment to determine the rapidity with which a cobra's poison would do its work. In the middle of the room was a wooden box containing a four-foot cobra, which had boon confiened thore with out food for three days, and was in a horrible state of rage and stocked with venom. Not far from the door of the box was a large dog of greater strength arid vitality than an aver age man. He was chainod, and nearly all the hair had been shaved off from one of his hind legs. At a signal from the doctor an assistant pulled a string, the door of the box rose, and tho cobra, with a cord tied around bis tail, glided out hko a streak of light. The unfortunate dog had been anxiously watching the box for some minutes, and giv ing vent to his unoasiness by a low, whining noise. The moment he saw tho snake coming out he was thrown into an agony of terror, as is nearly every animal when he sees a cobra, albeit he has never sot eyes on ono bo fore. Everybody in the room stood as fur awav from the snake as possible, the assistant holding the string that was attached to the reptile s tail. In a second the cobra hud fastened its rns noon the dog. which was tbe object nearest to it, and rising upon its tail it assumed its horrible posi tion of attack. Then, launching its body like lightning through tbe in tervening space, it fastened its fangs fairly in tho center of the bare, con- SpiCUOUS SpOl OU WO uvg o uauii. Instantly the assistant pulled the string and dragged the writhing reptile from its hold, and Dr. Fayrer soized tho injured part of the dog's leg between the thumb and first fin ger of his left hand, and with a clean ewift sweep of bis scapel cut it down to tbe bone. Remedies were at once applied to stop the bleeding and stimulants were given, but in a few miuutes the dog began to ex hibit those symptoms of drowsiness that always precedes death from the bito of a cobra. Every effort was made to arouse him, but within a little more than twenty minutes from tho time the snake bit him the dog lay dead on the floor. In this in stance I do not think more than two seconds elapsed after the bite was given before the injured flesh was wept out. Tbe result conveys some idea of the rapidity with which the poison acts. The dog exhibited no indication of suffering. And in this respect tho poison of the cobra is different from that of all other ven omous reptile, and especially that of the rattlesnake. The bite of the latter serpent convulses the victim with pain, bat the wound inflicted by the cobra causes a perfectly pain less death. Tbe doomed person sinks gradually into a calm, doe sleep, against which no resistance can be mado, and from which there ib no awakening. The chief food of tho cobra is th frog. After the rainy season these creatures fill the air with loud, steady croaking all night. Occasionally, however, a shn shroak is hoard above the ordinary noise, and tho practised ear discerns tbe cry of tbe untortu nate frog when a snake has seized it Early one morning, by the roadside. I found a cobra in the act of making his meal. He was slowly sucking the irog down his throat, tail first. I killed tbe snake and released the frog, but for a long lime the latter lay unablo to move. Its eyes were bright, and its head was lively enough, but the rear part of its body seemed to be paralysed. The hind legs, which had been down tbe snako's throat, were helpless. Finally it contrived to drag ltselt away in tbe long grass. Formerly tho government gavo rupee for every doad cobra delivered to its agonts, but I think this custom ban been abandoned, for it was dis covered that breeding yurds had bcon established in various parts of the country, and numerous natives were making a comfortable living by rear ing young snakes. Tbe snake charmers bave a won dorful influence over snakes. They tame them to an amazing oxtont, and very often come to a European's bungalow and offer to clear all tho serpents out of tho compound or en closed ground for a small considera tion. If the proposition is accepted they squat down upon tho ground and play a quick, horrible, jangling tune on a reed or flute. Very soon the owner of the compound is as tounded to see snakes of all kinds and sizes coming out of holes which he londly hoped wero tonanted only by toads or rats. They move with a soft, measured motion toward tho musician, who quickly grasps them and places them in his bag until 20 or more' are thore, then, having, uj he says, cleared tho compound of snakes, heireceives his money and carries off his prey, to lot them loose on another man's property and whis tie tbem up again lor a new reward. for they are all his own lame snakes and come to him when ho blows his flute. New York Sun. Clock Making In the Black Fosest. The peasantry of the southern part of the Black Forest, of Alemannic race, have, from time immemorial, been known clever and ingenious hand-workers, both in wood and metal ; but during the past two hundred years they have origin ated and developed an industry which has become world-lamous. lo them oe longs the honor, both of inventing and to a great extent, of supplying the world with clocks. Who the first clock-maker of the Forrest was we de not know, nor whether he has ever reaped the reward of his ingenuity. His name has not come down in story, but we can well imagine him ; the square-built, dark-skinned peasant, with long DiacK nair Hanging over Ins shouiuers, ana aeep, solemn, meditative eyes; seated in his little wooden cabin beside the great earthen ware stove, all through the long winter davs, when the snow is piled many feet high around his cottage-world: puzzling out the great problem which through such long hours of patient toil and ever deferred hope he has almost but not quite solved the problems of the weights aud wheels. We cau well fancy that earliest clock-maker to have had as ro- mantic and thrilling a story as had Palissy the enameler ; in truth the results of the Black Forest genius have been fur greater and of infinitely more importance tollie worm in an mose ui me rreucu notter have been. But the biography of the clock maker is unwritten. One of the verv earliest if not the first Black Forest clock is exhibited in tbe British Museum at Furtwangen. It is 211 years old. It only shows the hours and has to be wound twice in twenty-lour, it con sists of three wheels, regulated by balance, to which a string with a great stone -a weight is attached. An improve ment was very quickly made upon this simple mechanism. The pendulum was introduced about the year 17-10, the ap- nlication of the pendulum to tbe move raentofthe clock having, it is believed, been first suggested by Galileo. Striking clocks were invented also about the middle of the eighteenth centnry. These at first had to be wound every 24 hours. Eight-day clocks were not manufactured until some forty years later. In the year 1850 a great spur was given to the indus try, which it was iounu naa ueguu mj ue nilnp bv the establishment of a clock making school at Furtwaogen. Formerly, and until the last 15 years, every portion of the works of these Black Forest clocks were made by hand, ana eacn workman began and finished his own clock in his own cottage, being assisted In his labor by the different members of the family. Now, this hand and individual labor is, to a great extent done away with, being supplemented by large establishments, where 100 or more men are engaged, in which machinery is employed, and the labor is subdivided into at least a dozen processes. The men work twelve hours, are paid Irora a shilling to a half a crown a day, and women are employed as polishers of the enses. The old hand labor system U maintained only in a few remote villages, and in tbe inferior kinds of clocks. Since the introduction of machinery tbe Black Forest clocks bave been.it ia said, not only cheaper but more accurate, although it is certain that gome of the old wooden clocks made 100 years ago, are still in use, having with stood the various changes of temperature and tbe wear and tear of a century with scarcely any diminution of their powers, in the ninetv-two parishes which form what is called the clock country, are oyer 1400 master clock-makers, who employ some 0000 workmen. Altogether, aoout 14 000 people, including men, women and children, are occupied by this one indus try Th number of clocks manufactured y ea'rlv in this district is calculated at two millions, valued roughly at on million- French Weddlnf Bells. The grand marriage of the week has oeen that of M. Gaston Menier and Mile. Julie Kodier. It was the Menier family which bore the expense of the wedding, which they could better afford to pay than the bride's. M. Emile Menior, the bridegroom's father, pays in ostroi duties alone on the raw materials which he works into the chocolate bearing bis mark $1,800,000 annually, on an average, On the bridal day the Church of SU Augustine, in which the nuptial benedic tion was given, was redolent with flowers. r lowers were wreatnea along me span drills of tbe roof. Ihe altar was em bosomed in blooming plants from the Noisiel gardens and green houses. What with the rich and elegant toilets, the dia monds and the floral decorations, the sa- cred edifice bore a very mundane aspect. The general aspect was similar to that which might be presented bv a fushiona- ble morning reception in a pseudo-Gothic hall. Mile. Kodier's toilet was original, and to her becoming, for she is exquisite ly pretty, and looks well in anything. But, were she plainer, it would not have uorne me criticism u seemeu io eouru The new daughter-in-law of M. Einile Menier is mignonne, a French term equiva lent to "pocket Venus." bhe is or tne Princess of Wales type, but more healthy, spirited and happily organized. Her skin is of alabastersmoothness, her brown are penciled, and the eyelids, nostrels, lips and chin are exquisitely finished. The eyes are brown and well opened, and express a soft, womanly nature, fraukness and intelligence. Madame Gaston Me nier is not a grande dame, nor never will be one, but she is better. Dickens or Hawthorne would have found in her the realization of some of their roost winsome feminine characters. The naturel of her manners is almost Irish. But to tbe bridal robe which I have so long delayed to describe, and which the ladies who read this letter will be impa tient to hear about. Tbe skirt was short and plain, and covered with short flounces of old pointe a Faiguille. It was detached from the train, which might have been furnished by a London dressmaker to a voting lady going to be presented to Her Majesty Queen Victoria. The effect, ow ing to the shortness of her skirt, was not, when the train was allowed to fall, grace ful : and in profile it would have looked very bad were it not for the perfection of the bride's feet and ankles. They were so "thoroughbred" that one almost thank ed the dressmaker for the imperfection of her work. The corsage in white damask and demi-montant, was garnished with pointe cCAlencon, and formed at the hips paniers ; and 1 may note the buttons were of splendid Oriental pearls. A demi-long sleeve displayed an arm of ivory smooth ness, ui tne van i cannot speak, because there was none. A cloud of tulle softens the sharp light of a satin dress, and gives to it the freshness of a dewy morning. Concerning tbe coiffure, it was formed of a lace kerchief, or fanchon, fulling on the right side of the head, and helped upon the other with a bunch of orange blossoms, in which there was, 1 thought, too much green foliage. However, in looking at tbe blooming, smiling and thoroughly happy little brunette who was thus arrayed, one overlooked what was open to criticism in the toilet. The bridesmaids, of whom there were two, were in pearly-grav and blue. Madame Menier, the amiable and accom plished mother of the bridegroom, was in moss-green faille and satin, looped up iu tbe skirt with pearl ornaments and trim med with rich old lace. Her bonnet a First Empire one was trimmed with wreath of yellowish green leaves, ending in a bow of antique point lace, the ends ot winch were long enough to be tied un der the chin. The knot they formed was held in one place, on the chest, with large brooch formed of a single diamond. Happy was the newly married queen of tne lesuvai io get Deneaui me wing oi a mother-in-law so kind, right hearted and maternal. Madame Kodier, the bride mother, was in an ample pelisse robe and petticoat of otter-brown - satin. The pelisse formed a long train behind. The front breadths were lined with pink satin and turned hack on the hips in graceful folds. Madame Kodier's bonnet, in brown satin spangled with bronze d'art beads, was in the iorm worn by yueen Victoria in the early years or her reign and trimmed with three flowing, pink ostrich feathers. Madame Kodier is a fine looking woman, and her coiffure and robe, which wete rich, stately and dis Untrue, suited her exactly. The corbtule ae marnane was displayed in one of the ground floor drawing-rooms of M. Menier s palatial residence. It con tains amongst other things a set of din- mond ornaments of real splendor; laces scarcely less valuable, artistic fans and parasols with handles carved by Chinese fingers, and another inlaid by Japanese; a Dile of whole skins of silver fox: ditto New Shetland seal, and another heap of Siberian sable; toilet knick-knacks de signed and executed by Fromet Meurice and Tiffunv's most skilled silversmiths, and Irish lawn enough to dress a whole bench of Anglican bishops. I should have liked to have seen more pearls. There was a poor show of those gems which are the most becoming of all to the fresh young lady. The diamond is tho jewel for a dusky Indian girl. Its bril liancy is too strong not to be out oi Har mony with the delicate skin and suave loveliness of the handsome woman of the Caucasian race. Soft lies tbe pearl on the femenine neck. The diamond casts a fierce light upon it and depoetizes the wearer whom it was meant to adorn. M. Menier asked to the wedding the adult and juvenile members of his gutta percha works at (crenelle, wnicn are man aged by bis son, M. Gaston Menier. They were placed on a footing of equality with the greatest people, and their offerings, a quantity of tbe most delicately-pink roses, arranged in tne snape oi a wen- stuffed pillow, was riven the place of honor among the presents made to the bride and bridegroom. Among tbe notable guests who ottered their congratulations at the nuptial recep tion, there were M. and Mme. Wadding ton, tbe Prefect of the Police, and Mme. Andrieux, General oye, the United States Minister, and General Billot and into Seruo, the Portuguese rival of Stan ley and Cameron, in the wide field of African exploration. I am told that that most refined type of American womanhood, Mrs. Andrew White, was also at tbe Menier wedding with her daughter, the winsome Miss Clara, but I did not see her. Mrs. and Miss White have made a very favorable impression in Europe. The former re minds me of Mrs. G. P. Marsh, to whom grace and lady-like benignity and delicate tact come naturally. Parti Letter H. Y. Tribune. It is said that Mississippi farmers are thinking of going into tbe corn and cattie trade and leaving the cotton severely alone. A Murdered Nation. in 181, when the Empress Catherine stopped at Azov on a visit to the southern part of her domains, she was struck by tbe majestic aspect of the Daghostan mountains which interpose thoir snow capped ramparU between tbe Russian steppes and the garden lands of Tiflis and Georgia ; and on that day the conquest no uiom-soiveu upon wnicu nas since been accomplished at the cost of three million human lives. As early as 1783. General Lazareff made raid into the valley of the Terek, but was driven back with the loss of 6000 men, and hsd to recruit his forces in the Ukraine till the spring oi me louowing year, when he landed at Anapa, and attempted the same region from the south side. Ha was aciin re pulsed, hut fortified the village oi Kedout Kaleh on the sea-coast ; and thus estab lished a base of operations, for all future expeuuioiis. wnicn year alter year were sent forth, and as often vanquished though with greater and greater difficulty oy mat Heroic resistence which more butcher's arithmetic could foresee must cease at last. Lazareff and his successor. Goneral Godolitsch, gratified the Czarina by a monthly bulletin of raids and mas sacres; and thereia something hich seems inexpressibly revolting in their cynic admission of the superior strategy and valor or an enemy whom they hoped to subdue by starvation and rute that is, treachory. and the mas sacre of hostages and non-combatants, me passes or Western Caucasus went defended bv tbe Lesghians and Ossetes, who, in 1795, could still muster a force of 60,000 warriors in the Spartan sense of me word ; but with the return or ever Spring a fresh swarm of Cossacks, Cal mucks and Muscovite serf's full upon tlmt devoted band standing at bay like a wild animal against a pack of butcher dogs. The valleys were devastated, domestic animals were shun the an!, or mountain villages of Western Lesghia, were burned and their defenseless inhabitants butch ered ; and in innumerable encounters the passes were strewn with the bones. and the roountuin streams of Circassia dyed with the blood of her native sons, who, though almost victorious, found no time to repair their losses before an im- fierial ukuse sent a new horde of blood tounds against them. Yet in 1824, more then forty years after the commencement of hostilities which had already cost the lives of nearly half a million of his sub jects, the Czar could not yet call a square yard or tbe Caucasus bs own, unless lie kept within cannon range of his forts. Shamyl lien lladdyn, a man whose name is almost unknown to America and Western Europe; has left a record in the memory of his countrymen about which coming generations may kindle into wor ship. Unless ultimate success alone be a criterion of merit, the exploits of Hauni bal, of Cromwell, of Kosciesco and Gari baldi appeal trifling in comparison with the fonts of the Lesghian prophet-chief tain. There is a somewhat doubtful tradition about a Gothic knight, named Pelugius or Pclayo, whose father had been slain with King Koderic, in the battle of Xeres de la Frontera, and who, when Spain was overrun by the Saracens, en listed a corns of volunteers from the Christian fugitives with thoir aidjdefended himself year after year in the fastnesses of the Pyrenees, till tho power of the Moors was broken in the seven days' fight atlours, and the little band or patriots re ceived succor from their brethren in Southern France. If the story of Pelayo should be authentic, the achievements of Shamyl lien lladdin are hardly equalled ; otherwise they stund altogether unap proached bv anything the history of the world could adduce from the records of the last 4000 years. The Pass of Ther mopyliu, though defended against greater odds, was only dofended for twenty-four hours, while the followers or bhamvi maintained their ground for more than twenty-four years. Mithridates, King of Pontus and Asyna, resisted the powers of Home ror even a longer period; minus resources were almost as vast as those of the Orbit liomamu, while the Circassian patriot, with never more than 20,000 fighting men, defied the legions of the Kussian Empire, which were increased under Prince Baryantnski to ninety-five of Regiments, forty of artillery, lOOO polks of mounted Cossacks together almost a third of a million. Frederic the Great, in the Seven Years' War, showed the siime manful self-reliance, fortitude and heroic scorn of compromise ; but would he not have surrendered Brandenburg and Ber lin aa well br Silesia, if the four-fold nu merical superiority of his enemies had been increased forty-fold, the seven years protracted to twenty-seven, and his regi ment restricted to a diet of beechnuts and water? Or, to take an illustration from the history of our own country, would the resistence of General Lee have been pro longed for. we will not sav twenty-seven years, but that number of weeks, if Vir ginia had been attacked by a combina tion or the "Solid houiii" wiiu we Honti North, East and Wes ; if all the artillery, all the horses, all the cooking stoves, medicine chests, tents, shoes, blankets, flous, sugar and coffee, as well as all, the cash had been monopolized by General Grant and Lee's own commissary supplies reduced to hickorynuls and wild berries of the Blue Kidee ? How few of our hardy ancestors would have undertaken for any for any temporal or eternal reward what the Lesghian chieftain had done, and done in vain. His followers diminished from year to year and at last succumed, worn out, in the most bruial sense of the term, by an ungenerous enemy, who increased the terror of his superior force by atrocities which make the conquest of Caucasus the blackest page in the history of the world. But to the Circassian themselves their untimely grave has, perhaps, been a refuge from worse evils, since the doom of Poland would have been the penalty of submission ; and in thus far, at least, they have still been the arbiters of their own destiny. Five successive generations have been called upon to decide between death and a Muscovite citizenship, and they have deliberately chosen death as the less horrible alternative. By a hun dred years' war, and the sacrifice of a million human lives the Russians have thus become the undisputed master of a graveyard, but they will hardly find it renumerative acquisition. The tendency of tbe cosmetic regulations ia adverse -io cruelty, and we may trust that the s.niir bv law ot nature whirh prevent the hunter from digesting the flesh of a to' tured animal will not permit the butcher of the Circassian prtnots to utilize their victory. For alimentary purposes vivi section is an unprofitable business. Country doctor to the bereaved widow of a late member of the Georgia legisla ture; "I cannot tell bow I wan pained to hear that your husband had g"i e to heaven. We were bosom f-iends, but now we shall never meet again." A Hew Custom, " I care not who writes the history of nation, if I can read its advertise- nionts," remarked Sir Isaac Newton There is no doubt that he was right Historians cannot he trusted to write the simple truth, for even if they are wholly unprejudiced, they are neverthe less constantly doeieved by tho authori ties npon whom they rely. The student of advertisements, on the other hand, loams the wants and habits of a people from tho most trustworthy source. Had the old Romans advertised in a manner worthy of an intelligent poople, we could loam from the advertising columns of the press of the period more of the real daily life of Romo than any quantity of ablo German historians could now teach us. It was through a brief advertisement in an English newspaper that ono of the most remarkable and peculiar of tho domestic habits of English life was made public. Perhaps it is hardly ac curate to say that it was made public for the first time, for the peculiar habit, or custom or question must have been long familiar to Englishmen living at home. Still, no one outsido of England bus pocted its existence nntil the advertise ment to which reforence has boon made appeared. It sooms that a young English lady re cently loft her home and disappeared totally from the knowledge of her par ents. Being intelligent people, they, of courso, did not employ a detective to find out the missing girl and to compound with hor abductors for half her valuo, but they insertod an adver tisement in a daily paper, describing hor appearance and offering a reasonable re ward for her recovery. The peculiar feature of the advertisement was tho fact that, after sotting forth the height, weight, age, dress, and color of the eyes of the desirod young lady, it mcntionod that alio was "tattooed on tho loft log." From tho way in which this assertion was made, it is clear that the fact of the tattooing was not regarded by the adver tiser as anything unusual. In fact, from the comments since mado by tho English press, it is very evident that in England it is regarded as tho customary and proper thing to tattoo tho youthful femi nine log. After recovering from the shock in separable from suddenly learning the existence of so extraordinary a custom in England, tho thoughtful foreigner at once begins to question its origin and motive. The tattooing must obviously bo done as a measure either of utility or ornament, and it is by no moans easy to decido which motive is tho true one. All statisticians agree that thore are a groat many girls in England, and certain Eng lish weekly newspapers have during the last few years dwelt with much empha sis upon the tendency of the English girl of the period to uoiy tne conven tional restraints of former days. May we not. thon. assuino that English girls are prone to stray away from home, and that boing bo very numerous, tney are frequently misload and forgotten. We have here a sulliuiunt explanation of the tattooing problem. The careful British parent dosires to mark his girls for identification. If he pastes labels on thoir backs or attaches tags to their belts, tho tags and labels can roadily be torn off or lost. To brand a girl with a hot iron, or to slit hor ear, practices which are in vogue among cattle-drivers, would obviously bo open to serious objections. 1 he care ful parent, in these ciroumstanoos, falls back upon tuttooing, and in order not to disfigure his girls, he has them tattooed whero the indeliblo mark is not, as a rule, constantly forced upon the public gaze. The advantages or tho custom are un deniable Let us suppose that the girls of the Smith family, for example, are marked "S" in a diamond. Now, if old Mr. Smith, when taking his nino girls to Brighton, mislays ono in the railway station, or forgets another and leaves her in a cab, ho has merely to advertise that on such a dato a girl marked " 'H' in a diamond," was lost or mislaid in Bitch a place, and she will soon be restored to Inm. Or suppose that the same Air, Smith finds a girl in an omnibus whom ho fancies belongs to him, but whom Mr. Brown rightfully insists is his pri vate girl. There need be no dispute about tho matter. Mr. Smith has only to sav to Mr. Brown. "How are your cirla marked? ' Mr. Brown replies " 'J . B.' with a Btur." An inspection of the dismitod cirl shows that Mr. Brown is ight, and there is at once an end oi tne dispute. Thus, we soe that tattooing a trirl as a means of identification might be a vory useful practice, and if this is the motive of the present custom of tat tooing English girls, it commends itself to onr approval. But it is quite possible that English girls are tattooed as a purely ornamental process, it Bliouid ie noiiceu miu un original advertisement which first called attention to the matter moroly asserted that the missing girl was tattooed on the left leg. Tho pattern of the tattooing was not described, and we have no means of knowing its precise character. A year or two ago an Arkansas young lady, desirous of making a brilliant fig ure at a ball, called a paint brush and a quantity of red and white paint to Her aid. and produced on those present at the ball tho impression vnai sue waa wearing a beautiful and costly pair of striped stockings. What the Arkansas young lady did in a rough and tempo rary way, her British sister can do neatly aud permanently, with the help of a skillful artist in tattooing. Of the colors employed would be only tho light blue of the tattooing and the pure white of the original ground, but an lnuiiiie iicij u - terns could be used, no iur as me nnri lv mala mind can judge, this is the only way in which tuttooing can be used as an ornament in connection with the W. and if the motive which influences the young ladies of England is one of economy, they are certainly deserving of praise. The weight of probability is, however, in favor of tho hypothesis that British girls are tattooed for identification, and not for ornament. Whether tbe custom will be introduced here remains to be awn of course, by qualified and legiti mate eyes. Probably it will gain ground slowly among ns for the reason that girls irt not so abundant here as in England. and the danger of loning them ia, there fore, comparatively slight. Rescued by a Trout Estimated by thoir game qualities and the diflicnlty sometimes experienced in safely landing them, tho larger speci mens of our monntain tront weigh like a sturgeon. This fact is established whenever the tront, hooked in a pool with sufficient depth and spread of water, can bring to bear in his native element the full resisting force of his remarkably strong and active tail. Illus trative of this, a Btory is told of the ex perience of two professional fishers who recently went out from Helena to the Big Blackfoot, one a doctor and the other a lawyer. In a very brief time Uioy had a basket of beauties for their pains, but the fascination of tho sport kept them tossing their flics into the clear waters of the magnificent stream. Finally one man hooked a "bouncer," one on which lie had most yearned to try his skill. Tho pool was deep and broad, and, work and finesse as the doctor might, the trout held to the water. The lawyer, resting his companion, tried his strength aud tact, but with no better luck. The trout seemed to be master of tho situation, nor could he be towed or tuckered out. Tho contest finally cul minated in a most exciting scene. De termined to secure the prize, and for gotting that he could not swim, the vali ent doctor, threwing aside coat and boots, jumjied into the depths of the stream. It was a rash act, and to save him the lawyor was forced to plunge in after him. A fair swimmer, he reachod his struggling companion, and holding on to the pole aud tackle with one hand, lifted with tho other hia companion's head above water. But tho lawyer found he could not jl 4ii aaaa u in ui.u wi diiuicu nun vuij su)erhuman effort could lie keep him self and companion from sinking. On the vory point of drowning the trout came to tho rescuo, straightened out tho lino, and after a few sportive pranks, hauled the two men out of the pool to shallow water. Grateful for the service thus obligingly rendered, the fish was permitted to disappear over the riffle downstream. This story is confirmed by the testimony of both the gentlemen con cerned, and by the trout itsolf, which has since boon towing the tackle up and down the waters of the Blackfoot. Helena (Montana) Herald, Too Much Klcctrlclty. 8loux CUy Joaraal.l A little story is told of a scientist from the eastern part of this State who was making a tour of Nebraska and finding himself in the vicinity of the Winnebago agency, thought ho would go thore and take in an Indian Fourth of July cele bration. There was bow-shooting and rifle practice, pony and foot racing, a war dance anil all that sort of thing. Tho man of learning, who is a grave, sad-faced individual, that would not wittingly do a wrong, thought it but just to add his mite in the fund of amuse ment and so produced an eloctrio bat tery, and the Bimple experiments of Faraday's science. Thon he put on the boards the common farco known as "Not gotting the money." Everyone remem bers ''ow this basin of water is charged with electricity and a silver ooin dropped in ; how gonerously the showman offers the coin to anyone who will take it out, and how as one after another tries to take the money from tho water his hand is erampod and paralyzed by the electricity in the water. This little ei perimont ploasod the bucks greatly. As ono after another retired discomfited he was greeted with five loud guffaws of merriment and shouts of applause The water was gotting charged with tho eloc trio fluid to the point of saturation when the last Winnebago presented himself to try his luck. The water was so charged that instead of acting in the usual way, cramping the hand and causing an in voluntary jork out of the water, the shock went directly into his whole sys tem and he was powerless to remove his hand. The man ot science seeing him, as he thought, grasping for tho Bilvor, redoubled his efforts at the crank, and ground so much concentrated lightning into him that he all but diod. His head dropped on his breast, his pulse was weak and his breath nearly gone. Then our traveler saw his mistako. To Bay that he was frightened, but foebly con veys the idea, lie ceused his labors at the crank, and called for cold water to dash in the face of his red brother, lie walked said brother around, stood him on his head and tortured him generally, and at the end of noverul hours, had the satisfaction of pronouncing the brave out of danger. But the show was over. Path Piiices. The thousand francs a night that Adelfna Patti is to receive at St. Petersburg is tbe theme of a good deal of conversarion in art circles here. "My face Is my fortune, sir," she said, is an old quotation from an old ditty, but varying the word "face" by voice, or "sinuous ness," or "cheek," how especially true it is in the present day. There are men here, as there are in most capitals where art in any form is at premium, who spend their existence in scenting out likely tal ent. When they do strike a vein.it is wonderful what a paying propeity to all parties it becomes. Talking of this re minds nie of the first steps to fume of the greut Rachel. Hers was not a type of beauty to catch the eye of the art ex phUeur. At the very beginning of her career she ventured to ask the frank opinion of Provost, then one of the first in the ranks of the Theater-Francaise. The great comedian surveyed the frail creature from head to foot, and with a mournful shuke of the head said: "My good girl, you were never meant for the stage. Take ray advice ; go and sell flow ers on the boulevards." Any one but Rachel in a similar position would no doubt have done something more desper ate than flower selling even. She, how ever, continued ber course, and. a few years after became a wciriaire of that very Tbeater-Francais from whose chief actor she had received such a terrible rebuff. She avenged herself the first night of her appearance on that historic stage. Bou quets and wreaths, applause and felicita tions were the order of the night. At the end of the nlav the great actress selected a dozen of the finest bouquets, and, put ting them in her robe, held basket-wiee. advanced modestly lows rus rrovwi. iuu advised me to take lo flower selling, will yau bny a bouquet, Monsieui ? "You niiugiity gin, repneu me eietu ui , "forget the fulse prophecy and forgive the false prophet" 1'arti Curr. Jlnltimure Sun. An exchange says that one girl In the kitchen is worth two at the front gate. i