Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1899 — Torreador Earned $6O,OOO a Year. [ARTICLE]

Torreador Earned $6O,OOO a Year.

A successful toreador published his receipts a short time ago. During the corrida season be took part in sixtyfive fights and killed 133 bulls. His net profit was $60,000, and the only injuries be sustained were a bruse on bis foot and a rather bad wound In the leg. The risks are, of course, great; but the men are so extraordinarily agile that grave accidents really seldom occur. Sometimes one will be badly gored, but a week or two of hospital will generally set him on his legs again. These men, often uneducated and proceeding from the lower classes, are courted and feared, and even the larger newspapers of Madrid are careful to give nothing but praise to them, for fear of incurring their enmity.—Sketch.