Show An Imported I Snake Story London Globe I American Inventors of snake stories must look to their laurels The educated Bengali has entered Into competition and judging from the sample given in good faith by a native pauper at Calcutta he will b hard to beat Some time back the lovely daughter of a wealthy Zeminder was bitten by a cobra and died In the course of a few hours As her remains were being conveyed to tho Ganges for sepulture a passing patriarch patri-arch of reverend mien proposed that ho should be allowed to experiment with resuscitation re-suscitation As he bore a high reputation as a professor of occult science the sorrowing sor-rowing relatives heartily consented The sage then Obtained three cowries and after af-ter praying very energetically threw the t lfl nfhe J shells on the ground Instantly one disappeared dis-appeared and the spectators were wondering won-dering what had become of i when a huge cobra burst out of the adjacent jungle Jun-gle bearing the missing cowrie on Us forehead fore-head It must have been an humble sort of reptile for when ordered by the sage to suck the wound of the deceased lady it at once complied I and then died to savo rr g r rt further trouble Within an hour Its human hu-man victim had quite recovered and went on merrily with her husband and relatives none the worse for her little Adventure Such was the marvelous treatment treatment says the narrator of the peasant Moulo 3ux professor of the occult science i which with the spread of the socalled western civilization had almost died put I of the land I U |