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A British Disguise.

The London Court Journal furnishes this veracious biography of Buffalo Bill: "Hon. W. F. Cody (Buffalo Bill) was a close companion of a man named Boone, who discovered Kentucky in 1869. Mr. Cody married a grand-daughter of a distinguished gentleman known as Sitting Bull frog. Cody was twice Governor of Chicago and was at one time Mayor of the Arkansaw Legislature. He served in the Confederate army, in the command of Gen. Butler, who so gallantly defended New Orleans against the threatened invasion of the Federal General Longstreet. After the war Mr. Cody went to Congress from the province of Detroit and introduced a measure for the relief of the citizens of Buffalo, which gained for him the name of Buffalo Bill. He has contributed largely to the Atlantic Monthly, a newspaper edited by Mark Twain and Uncle Tom Cabin, a man who is mainly noted for his negro dialect sketches. Mr. Cody has a ranch of many acres in St. Louis, where he keeps a large lot of Indians and ponies constantly on hand."