Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1898 — New Method of Taming Lions. [ARTICLE]

New Method of Taming Lions.

Perzon, the great French lion tamer, owed his success to the use of electricity in taming his beasts. When a wild lion or tiger w’as to be tamed, live wires were first rigged up in the cage between the tamer and the animal. After a time Perzoq,would turn his back, and the wild creature would invariably make a leap at him, but encountering the charged wires, would receive a paralyzing shock sufficient to terrorize It forever. This lesson wojild rarely have to be repeated, as the mysterious shock was not readily forgotten. A combined walking-stick and table has been placed upon the market, having the cane split In three longitudinal sections, which are hollow at the top Andcontain the braces which prevent the pivoted legh from opening beyond • certafn’polnt. The table top is formed of heavy fabric stretched over tbo distended franje