FOOLHARDY PERFORMANCE IN A MENAGERIE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1445, 15 January 1887, Page 3

FOOLHARDY PERFORMANCE IN A MENAGERIE.

A. terrible scene has juat been witnessed at Dijod. A mesmeiiat, M, Toroy, accompanied by a cataleptic youug woman Darned Mdllo, Lucia, entered a cage, of Honß m S gnor Salva's re onager ie. The animals seemed at first quite btuptfi d on seeing strango persona before them, bnt they soon be»an to show signs of dangerous, temper. M Toroy lost no time, and l having sent lYfdlle Lijoia into a magnetic trance, he told her (6 (jj her gn^e on ihe lions and to place her aims before them, wbioh aho did with perfect impunity. She was then plunged into a cataleptic fit, her body was stiffened, and her feet and leg* footer ed to two atools. The . !! Anß « eoaded by the keepers, were made | ; to jump several tlx c 2 over the young woman's body. This was continued until the audienqe, wound up to the highest pitch of terror and exaltement, owing to the ominous growling of the Infarlated , lions? oried out, "Enough." The three actors m this extraordinary scene were loudly cheered by the spectators; bnt It is i to bo hoped (remarks the correspondent I of the Daily Telegraph, who describes the > scene), m the interest of civilisation, that ' the authorities of Dijon will speedily put a fttop to any repetition of ihe degrading ; spectacle, which was mere worthy of to i aisambly of Cherokee Indiana than of UA) i inhabitants of a larg^ and proeperous French city;