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Show Most Deadly of Snakes. Hj Tho cobra de capello, which kllli from 20,000 to 25,000 people a year in flfl India, Is ono of tho most beautiful j creatures you aver saw. With a reed l a yard and a half long his koopei flfl arouses this most deadly of all sen j pouts, which lifts its head eighteen Inches from tho ground, and, stand- BJ ing perfectly erect, expands Its neck into a hood, as soon In the tales ol Indian Jucgling. The two greenish- H yellow spots, ono on each side, look like two enormous eyes. Tho inaki is ready for a strike. Its bite is iur H death In eight mlnutos. Science dm H found no antldoto for It In striking. iH tho head goss downward and forward, cot straight out Tho fangs are per BJ manently erect, not movable, as in th HJ rattlesnake. HJ |