St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-09
HE BEARDED THE LIONS.
Remark able Nerve Exhibited by a
Welsh Professional Boxer.

Remark able Nerve Exhibited by a
Welsh Professional Boxer.
South Wales Daily News.
An announcement made by the crier
on Wednesday evening that a man
med Williams Sa muels, local inn
keeper and the champion boxer of
Wales, would enter alone a den of
lions at Messrs. WOmbwell'S menagerie,
now located at Swansea, caused con-
siderable excitement in the town, and
drew a great crowd to the show. At 9
O'Clock the band played For He's a
Jolly Good Fellow" and then
SamueIS, accompanied by Mr.. Bost-
ock, manager of the show,
walked up to a den containing
lion and about a dozen liOnesseS. A
great crowd at once assembled round
the cage. Mr.. BOStock mounted plat
form and Informed the public that his
old friend SamuelS had volunteered to
perform a deed of daring such as had
never been done in the menagerie since
its establishment in 1905. Mr.. Wilt
shire had, he said, recently at Cardiff
entered the cage in company with Nine.
Saliva, the lion tanner, and had by his
action caused great sensation in South
wales. But SamuelS was going to sur
pass this feat, for. though urged to let
Nine. Saliva accompany him, he de-
clined to enter the den at all unless
allowed to do so alone. This he was
now about to do.
The announcement was received with
great cheering, though it was evident
that, on the part of many present, there
was a feeling of considerable anxiety
and alarm. SamuelS, however, seemed
to share none of these feelings of I'M
eaSineSS. Attired as prize fighter and
with blue TOSette on his breast, he ap-
pears at the entrance to the cage, and,
cudgel in hand, boldly entered it. The
lions appeared in no way to relish this
intrusion. and it looked as though Sam
uelS would have had warmer welcome
than he bargained for. Possessed ap-
parently with nerves of steel, the man
walked undaunted up to the end of the
cage where the animals were huddled
together awaiting only the slightest en-
enlargement TO spring on the intruder,
and held his cudgel threateningly be-
fore the nose of the fierceSt. GrowlS of
rage greeted this act; but SamuelS, in
no way discomposed, walked among the
animals. and made them fly right and
left before him. This he did several
times, and on one occasion acted so
raShly that grave fears were entertained
for his safety by those in charge of the
exhibition. TheSe-whO, as a pre-
caution. were armed with red
hot irons-weTe ready to act
| promptly, when SamuelS again OBJ
tanned the mastery over his savage COM
panions, and showed his feaTlessness of
them by firing a loaded pistol at their
faces. Then, his courage maintained TO
the last, he went to the gate of the den
and waited in a dangerous position
while Mr.. BostOck presented him, amid
the cheers of those present, with a
unique chain composed of spade and
crown. and with a certificate recording
tie fact that he had accomplished his
purpose. Immediately afterwards the
band played "See, the COnquering Hero
Comes" and Samuels was borne in
triumph out of the menagerie and
through the streets.
Jack-pots afford many an ''Opening"
for young men.-Pittsburg Chronicle
| Telegraph.
"Oh, dry upI" shouted somebody in
! the crowd to the intoxicated individual
in the middle, who was trying to make
campaign speech.
"'Gen'l'men," said the speaker, stop
ping short in his harangue, and looking
about with an injured and insulted air,
Il donno what I've ever (hic) done to
make you wish (hic) that ] should ever
| (hic) come (hic) to such an awful end!''
| -SOmerYille Journal.