Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1892 — A Parisian Daniel. [ARTICLE]

A Parisian Daniel.

London Telegraph. During a discussion at a local case at Vincennes between a number of the ‘‘bigwigs” of the place, a bet was made between M. Maitre, a councillor of the District and a veterinary Burgeon, and M. Ango, a wholesale butcher, that the latter would not enter the lions' cago in a menagerie then showing at Vincennes in company with the lion tamer Lorange, the proprietor of the wild beasts. The sum at stake was £2O. The news of the wager spread through the little town, where M. Ango is well known, and as a natural consequence the show was packed with anxious sightseers at the evening performance, when the bet was to be lost or won. Punctually at 9 o’clock the lion tamer and M. Ango entered the cage, in which there were no lions, and after the cheers which greeted their appearance bad subsided the former advanced to the bars and in a polite speech informed the public that M. Ango had won his bet, having accompanied him into the lions’ cage.’ “But what about the lions?" yelled the audience. “This is the lions' cage, and nothing was said about the lions being in it,” explained M. Lorange. The public sjsw the joke and cheered M. Ango <o the echo us he withdrew from the cage. Curious to relate, M. Ataitn* flatly refused to pav the money and is to be sued for the amount, as it Iwaa understood that the wager should be spent on a banquet to commemorate tie fete of Sept. 22.