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Show GIRL FASCINATES A LION. Fair Dancer Patted Affectionately, but Her Face Is Scratched. So great was tho impression which a fascinating dnncer made on a lion whllo sho was paying n visit to a music mu-sic hall where It wob performing that the animal, after contomplatlng her for some time, got on Its legs, moved oft In her direction, and, putting Its paws through the bars or Its cage, took hold or her head and patted her race affectionately. Unrortunntclj, Samson had reckoned reckon-ed without his claws, wlilch toro tho tender skin of the pretty dancer, Inflicting In-flicting scars, the traces of which will. In all probability, never disappear. This result of- what would otherwlso havo been regarded as a good Joke, not being likely to enhance the pro-fessionnl pro-fessionnl attractiveness of the graceful grace-ful Spaniard, she hns taken legal action ac-tion ngalnst tho proprietor of tho placo of entertainment, putting In a claim for damnges to tho amount of 12.000. Tho case has Just been brought before be-fore ono or tho Paris courts, but, as tho dorendnnt ls abroad on business, tho hearing has been adjourned until November, w hen tho Judges may havo a better opportunity for fonninc an exact opinion or tho injury which tho clinrms of tho fair plaintiff have sustained sus-tained at tho paws or tho susceptible Samson. ,t |