Death Of A Lion-tamer

Driesbach, the lion-tamer, died recently 011 bis Ohio farm, a poor but contented man of 70 years. The newspapcrs are relating many anccdotes concerning him, and among them is that of the exhibition iu Now York twenty years ago, wben, after a fight in a cage with a tiger, lie was taken out covered with blood and apparently dreadfully injured. There were shrieks from the audience and muoh horror expressed, nntil a pbysician announoed that bis wounds were not daugerous. For a fortnight afterward Driosbach appeared with his arm in a sling and bis face coverod with strips of piaster ; then it was discoveml tliat the wounds were imaginary, the gore had como from a sponge fllled with rose-pink, and the whole performance was notliing but a clevor piece of advertising. A hundred lashes is a forfoiture whictí can be taken with moro precisión than Shylock's pound oí flesh. A negro living near Warrenton, Ga., rccently asked a whito neighbor to lend him some money. The capitalist dcclined on the grouud that there was no chance of his getting it back. The iipplicant vohmtarily offered to pay the penalty of 100 lashes if he iailed to moet bis obligation j at tlie appointed time. Tlie money was ' not repaid, and, on Monday last, the i en 'ilitor jjroceeded to take the debt out of thc nogro's bidé. Wben he had got $50 woitli, Wliite told Black that he oeuld go on tlje farm and work out tue remaiüder, but tlie lattor in.sisted tbat the debt should be canceled with the lash, accprding to the bond, and it was done. Mu. W. FitASEB Rab, au English traveler, who is bimself Master of one j of the oldest Masón ie lodges in the j world, was considerably surprised at tbo j public parades of Knights Templar in í tliis eountry. He says the Englisb i Knights " would as soon think of holding an encampment in a balloon as of arnuBiDg themselves by perambulating the streeta in the fnll dress of their : order." The London Times staff, from the highest to the lowest, wishcd to unite in a testimonial to be presented to Mr. Delane on his retirement, But tho intended recipiënt declined the proffered I honor, and not even the sugffestiou that it chiill take the form of his portrait. to be liung in the editorial room, wil! induce him to consent.