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Show BULL FIGHTS IN MEXICO. Bidlretoes MJe f tk. HMirle Sport at New dimmed. Every once in a while we read In some northern paper, a descriptive letter from some American in Mexico, giving a lurid account of some bull fights which the exiled correspondent has witnessed. A Mexican bull fijjht is one of the institutions of that country. coun-try. There is a great deal of show, noise and clamor, but very little fighting fight-ing or danger, reminding one of the revolutions that used to prevail in Mexico some years ngo. There is really very little danger in a bull fight There is more absolute peril in lighting light-ing a kerosene lamp, or calling a policeman po-liceman a liar, than there is in a dozen bull fights. The so-culled bull fight takes place in an amphitheatre built for that purpose. pur-pose. It will hold a groat many people, peo-ple, probably more than can get into it, iu which respect it seems to resemble resem-ble an American streetcar, A board fence separates th6 audience from the arena, and is so armnged that if the bull should undertake to overtake some bold matador, the latter can climb up to a place of safety, where the bull couldn't reach him with aten-foot pole. The exalted position enables the bull fighter to show his contempt for danger, dan-ger, and he makes a liberal use of his opportunities. The so-called bull fighters aro mar-velous mar-velous objects to look at. Solomon in nil his glory was never arrayed so gloriously. They are dressed in all the colors of the rainbow, are very prone to take water. When dressed up in their toggery, they hear a whimsical whim-sical resemblance to the face cards. It is really amusing to see the Jack of Diamonds and the King of Hearts, and all the rest of the male members of the pack, that are familiar to most readers, read-ers, prancing atout the arena. Bull fighting in Mexico might become be-come dangerous if the bulls wore given a fair show; for occasionally an animal can be found that has a grievance, griev-ance, and is really anxious to lift a Mexican into the next world. But as a general thing, the bulls are almost as cowardly as their tormentors. The Mexicans have a way of discouraging that really does credit to thoir in-fronuity. in-fronuity. Before the bull is presented with the freedom of the arena, several inches of his horns are sawed off down to the very quick, which operation makes the end of the bull's horns as sensitive as a ripe boil on a human being, i Now, the last thing in the world that the animal is going to do with his sore horns is to bump them a against anything whatever. There- """""TOWr'the bull develops an almost human hu-man intelligence in keeping out of the way of the heroic bull fighter. A man with a large sized boil on his person does not go about trying to bump it against people, nod the tender-horned bull has pretty much the same way of thinking. |