An Unpleasant Experience.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 788, 3 April 1905, Page 3

An Unpleasant Experience.

'At Constantinople the new manager of the Royal Italian Circus (says M.A.P.) met with an experience which he was afraid at the time might lead to his being taken .before some high Turkish power to be sentenced to an unpleasantly ingenious death. By command of the Sultan, Mr Volpi went to the Yildiz Kiosk with his company of animals to givo a special performance. One of tlio "star" turns of the entertainment was that provided by the monkey Fascoline, who goes through all the evolutions of a human trapeze artist. A trapeze had been lilted up in the roof of the saloon, which was lighted in the centre by a huge oldfashioned lustre chandelier. Fascoline, when he reached his place on the trapeze, looked about him in an odd sort of wuy, and paid not tho slightest heed for Mr Voipi's signal for him to begin. Then he began swinging, and it was thought that he had now started his usual turn. But he had quite another intention, lie leapt sideways on to the chandelier, and, to the consternation of everybody, began tearing off the lustres, and pelting the Sultan and his suito with them. The Sultan so far from ordering the execution of Volpi, sent for him, and ''decorated him," and ofTcred him a largo sum of money for Fascoline, .wliicli ma politely reliiEcdi