Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1892 — Bull Beats Lion [ARTICLE]

Bull Beats Lion

“The lion has been called the king of beasts, but I will back a bull of good fighting stock against anything that wears hair,” s»id C. W. Courtright. “I was traveling in Mexico a few years ago and at Monterey a little one-ring circus with menagerie attachment was exhibiting. In the outfit was a large and ferocious-look-ing lion, which was proclaimed as the terror of the animal creation. A Mexican cattleman wqs ,an interested spectator, and while the tent was full he mounted a seat and offered to bet the proprietor of the show SI,OOO that he had a bull that could whip the lion in ten minutes. The wager was accepted and the next day set for the battle in the local bull pen. The lion was turned loose in the inclosure and a young lamb thrown to him. He killed and ate it, and the taste of blood seemed to make him frantic. Then a black, wiry, Spanish bull was turned in. Without a moment’s hesitation the lion sprang at him, but taurus caught him on his needle-like horns and threw him thirty feet. The lion did not appear anxious to renew hostilities, but the bull was in for a fight to a finish. He rushed at his enemy and gave him another savage toss. The lion retired to the farthest corner of the inclosure and tried to scramble out, but was clubbed back. The bull made another rush, and this time he drove a horn into his antagonist and nearly disemboweled him. Every bit of fight in the lion was gone. The bull stood in the center of the inclosure, pawing and bellowing, and the terror of the animal kingdom was dragged out and an attempt made to save his life. The bull was boss from the moment he entered the arena.” —St. Louis GlobeDemocrat.

The art of advertising is carried pretty far in these days, but after all therms nothing new under the sun, and very likely if the hieroglyphics of the Egyptian sculptures were properly understood they would be found to be merely advertisements of patent nostrums, cosmetics and jimcracks generally. At least as far back as the publication of newspapers has extended the art has been always much the same. An instance is to be found in the advertisement of a hundred and seventy-five years ago, in which were set forth the virtues of a quack medicine, which cured all sorts of diseases “by promoting the cheerful Curricle of the Blood and Juices, raising all the Fluids from their languid State to one more florid and sparkling, restoring a Juvenile Bloom, increasing the animal Spirits, and evidently replenishing the crispy fibers of the whole Habit with a generous Warmth and balmy Moisture, and thereby invigorating to such a degree as not to be imagined. It is an admirable Pcmedy in all Weakness of the Body or Decay of Constitution of any Kind, and even seems to keep Back the Effects of Old Age itself. ” This is hardly to be outdone in these days of abundant advertising, when the profession of writing advertisements is recognized, as a legitimate business, on a plane somewhat lower, it is true, theoretically, than the writing of epics, but equally legitimate and far more profitable.

TnE price of anthracite coal is to be raised again. . The gentlemen associated in the Reading combine assert this is purely in order to get the business on a stable basis, but it looks much as though they would furnish their stable with a dog ip the manger. “The first and most repulsive characteristic of Chicago is its business center of sky-scrapers,” says the iS'ew York Sun. “The elephant is too big to be beautiful,” brays the wild ass. A contributok, who signs himself “Office Stool,” is probably accustomed to being sat upon.