The Wilmingtonian, And Delaware Advertiser

From a late London paper.

Fatal Temerity.--A few evenings since, the following dreadful accident took place-- At the Star Inn, in Bedminster, was a caravan of wild beasts, and the keeper being in want of an assistant, a person who had from his infancy been accustomed to the business offered his services, and was accepted. He was, however, cautioned not to go within the reach of any of the beasts; this caution he unhappily neglected. A party came to see the animals, and the lion was asleep and did not appear willing to rise, the man imprudently went into his den. The beast suddenly awakened, and probably hungry, and alarmed at the presence of the stranger, darted forward one of his paws, with which he seized the showman by the shoulder, and at the same moment with the other he terribly lacerated the face. The miserable man now cried piteously and struggled to get loose, but his efforts were in vain, and the lion, now infuriated, seized him by the throat with his mouth, and held him in that situation until death put a period to the horrible sufferings of the victim. A gentleman happening to pass, who lived in the neighbourhood, brought his pistols, and another person called to a blacksmith, who had a piece of iron red-hot, to afford assistance. But it was twenty minutes before the animal would quit his prey, although his mouth was much burned; at length, the unhappy man fell from his jaws, a spectacle too horrible for description, when the body was drawn from the cage. We understand that under ordinary circumstances the animal was exceedingly quiet and docile; so much, indeed, that two women and children had actually been in the cage with him the preceding day.

With time and patience the leaf of the mulberry tree becomes silk.