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Show Splinting a Lions Leg. Tlio invalid lion Nero porformed on an operating tablo yesterday afternoon. A whole college of sergone woro proscnt to assist iu splinting nnd bandaging the noblo Nero's left hind leg, which was fractured somo tlmo ago by tho bite of n lioness. Nero H an Ill-tempered beast. Touch him nnd ho turns u;on you with it viclousncss that cows the oldest llon-tamcrnnda llon-tamcrnnda inlltncM that rivals Benjamin's Ben-jamin's Ughtntug making its decent on it kllc-Btrlng. Assistant Houso Scrgeon Henry Amllng began to load up Nero at noon wlthcoploushypodcrmlc injections of sulphate of lAorptnnc. Tho puncture of the needle Nero stood with loyal fortitude. Ten grains ol morphine and two of atropln qultcd him. Hisdamlgcd leg was bandeged, and then tl.o difficult task ol restoring him to his cage was commenced. When Hie ropes and chains were loowuio-I the mighty tyrant o( the forest gavo a yelp and a leap, overybody shuddered, and then, witli alngle Instinct, tho formidable creature ro-cntercd his cage, the Iron gato was dropped and tho "clinic" was over. ForTlvo or six weeks Ncrowlll Ihj given nn opportunity to convalesce AVw Yotklftmhl, |