Elephant in a Bedroom.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 20 January 1913, Page 4

Elephant in a Bedroom.

An elephant- paid a visit to a tobacco shop near tho Gare do Lyon, Paris, recently, swallowed (several pounds of snuff, and 200 or 300 cigars and wrecked the shop. M. and Mmo. Vaux were in their room on tho ground floor, just behind tho shop—which is also a restaurant— when Mme. Vaux awoke her liasband and said she heard burglars. M. Vaux got out of bed and picked up 0 revolver. Just then tho trunk and head of an elephant appeared through tho wall, most of which fell on Mme. Vaux, and husband and wife, in their night attire, climbed out of a window at the back and disappeared. The elephant, which Had escaped from a circus proprietor, had been frightened by a dog, and lost his temper with a carrot hung outside the tobacco shop as a sign, because it was painted tin and was not good to eat. Tn less than a (|uarter of an hour ho succeeded m leaving nothing standing except the walls, and only the outer four of those. He then followed his keeper quietly enough to tho circus.