"FIRING A SALUTE."
Tautl, the ctrcoa clowni who a short time ago achieved European celebrity by selling bia learned: pig to eoooio Russia.) noblemen animated by a devouring ambition to dine upon that intellectual animal, has himself just narrowly escaped (rom falling a victim to Polish eccentricity. During an evening, perior mapceat Warsaw of*, the SalompUßki CircuS, to which Tan ti U attache*!, he ' waa , qoovulsicg; .-hia audience -with laughter; by his quaint antics and" jests when suddenly an elegamly-dreesed roan, the sole occupant of a private-box die*??; a revolver from his breast*pocket, toot deliberate aim at the clown, and fired. Tanti, fortunately for himself,' oiit Q Rrp^igioua cappr .as the pt3tol /went pff, so that the bullet missed hiqo and buried itself in lb? sawdust eloae to hiia^tj cSuiiia^ .ibiin, however, euch alar to Vha t he» fl c d if re ra the ring like one demented, r n-The. person who flred the *hof.wai promptly -
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 244, 13 October 1881, Page 1
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