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Show FAMOUS LJON TAMER OF FRANCE HAS JOINED MAJORITY Special Cable to Thu Tribune- PAJJTS. Jan. IS. M. Tlldel, a Hon tamer, who seems tO( havo been, like tho poets, born, not made, has just died, after a few yearn of retirement spent in the on- jeyment of n comfortable fortune be had amassed. Tie was not S years old when he made up his mind In tanve lions. Kunning away from his home, which was a prosperous farm In Normandy, he went to Join a si rolling menagerie, and bepan his career at t he bottom of the ladder. He cleaned out the wild beasts' cages and cooked their food. Then he rose to leading tame boars, and at last reached the height of his ambition when he had a menagerie of his own, with real savage lions and tlgcm. l-'or nearly forty venrs M. Bldel toured with them all over the continent of Europe, lie met with a. fair share of accidents during his life. In 1 ISSil. at Neullly fair, his lion Sultan leapt at his throat and dragged him about the fioor of the cane. It took him a year to recover from hlu mauling. Some years ago one of his lees had to bo amputated, owing to another accident. While touring In Italy ho saved several pei-sons. attacked by wild beasts In his show and received a decoration from the king for his gullant conduct. |