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Show DEATH FROM BLOW OF LION Unfortunate la Struck by King of Beasts and Death Follow Instantly. Some men are naturally dttcd to tackle a lion, others are doomed if chance brings about so undesir able a meeting, says the St. Jump Gazette. The unfortunate jnan whom lions have killed at Rlack pool is of tho latter category. It is by no means certain, however, that the three inmates of thed mi into which lie so unwisely entered attacked him. There was a siiu ilar adventure nt Astley's. A man entered the thenler in the early morning and found to his horror that the four lions then-had then-had broken from their cage. One gave him a blow with Its paw", then took him in its mouth. The blow from n lion's paw is sal 1 to ' be, after tlu stroke of a whale's tall, and the kick of a giraffe, tho strongest thing in nature. So the victim was deau when the keeper , went to the rescue. Only one lion had concerned itself with the man. and wac sitting over him ns a dog sits over a bone. Two of the lions "were playing on the stage with a "property" garland and the fourth wae seated in the royal bos. placidly surveying the gambols on the stage and the terrible banquet in the auditorium. The murderer relinquished its prey immediately its master appeared, and all four bolted for thoir don like children detected in some ralscouduct. |