BROUGHT DOWN THE HOUSE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume I, Issue 66, 27 November 1880, Page 2 (Supplement)

BROUGHT DOWN THE HOUSE.

About twenty years ago, when' H. A. Langdon was younger than be is now, the played in " The Oataraot of the Ganges Vim the Winter Garden, New York, i The scenery was gorgeous < and ;startli»g. .Inone soene, Langdon was- chained to nn .immense granite piUan <in a " dungeon cell " >ot .some ' snob place. An elephant xusaeß on, team aw*y fiie obusf, .and xeaeaoe JLaogdcn. - Tiafty bad a teal trained elephant, jaopasteboajrd , buiineis, and (he act took imm«n»ely. Oat night tome tUIaUm gave the, elephant^o bottles of whiiky, and.the huge brut* got beyond the control of it«. keeper, inrfao|, t it began to chaie that estimable 5 individual aiound the back of the 'stage.. .Meanwhile the chained Laagdon began, to. ge^aniioui, as he stood bound, before the audience hearing qraah fftift crash; behind .tlj^aofne"., lll{ i '/' What'a , the , matter ?" h« , oned, Jjgj • hoMie whitptic tQ t a man in die wingh.Wmv? , a "Elßphjmt'iuTunk, 1 ; 1 ;the man, as, he sought aplaof.of aafety. , , - "Tha.elephanfc.made a break r |or, Langdon, who tried to releiie His ,chalned v hands, but could not^ Down^came the wing ne'x^ him as" the tUphant toame through ; it, and as there wfa no tima.to lo«e, Jjaogdon atroda out iato t^a^bflUni QitrsinK oa bif MMk the ( pillar, apparsntly weigbiag hundtedi of toni. Sinoe the time aimpMn jbrougnt down" the house, ' there never was «uch.!an exhibition of strength. It was greeted' with a tumult of yells, and wasthesuccew of'tb* evening.— Detroit' Free Prest. t , \\,/^-

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