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a stable-keeper named Jarvey. In 1861, at the same theatre, a 

 lion named " Havelock " tore off a heavy iron bar in front of his 

 c.9,ge, and burst open the door. An under-groom, named Smith, 

 entered the place and found the lions prowling about. " Havelock ' ' 

 sprang at him, pulled him to the ground, then fixing his teeth in 

 the poor fellow's throat, worried him to death. A lion that died 

 in the Central Park, New York, in 1876, named " Parker," was a 

 man-slayer of the worst kind. He was exhibited in Cook's circus in 

 1859, and on the second night of his performance he killed his keeper 

 Roberts ; afterwards in Glasgow he slew another keeper named 

 Stuart, a.nd badly mangled another man shortly afterwards else- 

 where. He was taken to America, and there killed a Miss Hardy. 

 Barnum then bought him, but deemed it prudent to lodge him 

 in the Park Menagerie, where he ended his career. The well- 

 remembered case of Ellen Bright' s death, who was killed by a 

 tiger while giving a private exhibition to some officers of her power 

 with her performing animals is alluded to by Mr. Fairgrieve, who, 

 attributing her death to the shock, writes : " The Lion-Queen fell to 

 the ground and the tiger sprang upon her. The tiger, however, 

 scarcely grazed her skin, and her death, which was instantaneous, 

 was caused almost solely by fright." (This was afterwards con- 

 tradicted, the tiger's tooth had torn the thoracic duct, which caused 

 her death.) "I may here mention," he continues, "as a curious 

 fact in natural history, that a full-grown lion named ' Eoyal 

 G-eorge,' which happened to be in the same den when the death 

 happened, took the sad event so much to heart, that it began to 

 pine away and hang down its head, and died in about three 

 months after his queen, to whom he was greatly attached." 



A similar trait in the lion was exhibited by one at a menagerie 

 in Cassel. Another lion-queen who used to show her power by 

 putting her head in the jaws of a tame animal, had it bitten off 

 with a sudden snap, which is supposed to have been unintentional, 

 for the brute grieved over her death so much that he refused food, 

 pined away, and in a few days died also. 



In the newspapers of the present day a paragraph is going 

 the rounds, giving the history of a poor man who had tamed a 

 Hon which he was in the habit of exhibiting. This man appears 



