Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1875 — Jealousy and Revenge. [ARTICLE]

Jealousy and Revenge.

A singular story of jealousy and revenge comes to us from Sicily.. A beautiful young girl named Fiorina, who was the belle of a traveling circus in which she figured as the lion tamer, had been for some time receiving the attentions of an athlete belonging to the same troupe. By some means she ascertained that he was not faithful to her, but had another lgdy love. No signs, however, of her painful discovery were allowed to escape. She still smiled sweetly upon him, but responded coldly to his ardent caresses. In her own bosom she planned a terrible revenge. One evening recently when the performance had been unusually brilliant —after Fiorina had whipped the lions and forced them to lie at her feet—she called her recreant lover aside and said to him“ Do you still love me?” “Always,” he answered. “Do you know that I should die if you should devote yourself to another woman?” “What an idea!” responded the young man. ‘'‘But I should first kill you,” said Fiorina. “And how would you do that?” “Thus,” cried the girl, at the same instant pushing him violently into the cage of the lions. They attacked the unfortunate man at once and tore him to - pieces, while Fiorina urged them on with blows of her whip. It might be expected that Californians would take a deep interest in a well with . a bottom so far down that 5,385 feet of fishrline just reaches it.