A REAL SENSATION.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1670, 26 April 1884, Page 4

A REAL SENSATION.

It certainly was a '• thrilling incident" winch occurred tho other day at Chicago, when a largo African lion got loose, and took a look at things in general, An American contemporary describes the affair hi painful detail, and if its readers were not " harrowed," tho/ ought to have been. When tho ferocious monster sprang from its cage " a dreadful panic fell upon the little audience.'' which saved themselves by climbing to tho top of the hyenas' cages. But the lion did not concern itself with either the public or the hyenas. Seeing a "noble Shetland pony," it pounced upon tho poor creature, " and sinking its teeth into the neck of the animal it drank its blood to the last drop, and then tore the unhappy carcass into fragments," Almost needlessly it is further stated that " tho ories of the ill-fated animal were frightful but brief," Being wearied of its pretty play, the lion lay down, and quietly suffered itself to be operated upon by two keepers with sponges saturated with chloroform tied at the end of long sticks. In a few minutes tho " ruthless monarch ot the forest" was reduced to a lit condition for a dentist to extract its' ravenous teeth." But none being at hand, the " grand old brute' I —so tho description runswas dragged back into its den, and Chicago could onco more concentrate its mind on the manipulation of pigs into pork, In the latter connection wo can only hope that the fragments of the "noblo Shetland pony" were carefully collected and destroyed. It is said to bo the common belief at Chicago that any meat which finds its way into sausages becomes pork from that moment.