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Show Romance nt Rostock's. ' The lion with the ro-c 1 is far.t becoming becom-ing a thing of the print and one of It.' pretties) touches In the training act ol Capt Jack Bonavlta ai Boetbck a Coney Isiand, Is fast disappearing, "he abac lute refusal of Schley, otherwise an obedient obe-dient anlninl to carrj the roc given him oiordlng to an old cistom will probably be quoted as an example of animal instinct in-stinct The story of Schley's carrying the rose Is a romantic one One day at the Paris hippodrome n long thin box and a sweet-Ij sweet-Ij scented note came to Bonavlta In the box was a red rope and the note explained ex-plained that It was for Schley the lion, and that one would be sent twice a day for each performance That was nearly eight months ago. and Bonavlta Immediately Immedi-ately set about teaching Schley to carry the rose In his mouth during the entire performance This he did readily and seemed to anticipate the arrival of the favor ine evening Bonavlta. to try him. offered an artificial rose, and he declares Schley at once attacked him Since coming to this countn the favors h ie,, ceased and Schley has displayed an antipathy to the roses given him here, until no amount of punlshmi 111 will make htm arr the rose more than a moment. The attempt to force him will probably be abandoned |