The menagerie belonging to a showman named Pezon haa been totally destroyed by fire at Boyan. It was the oldest collec tion of the kind in France, M. Pezon having ancceeded to his father and grand father, both of whom were in the business before him. The animals, fifty in number, were in eight large cages, placed in the centre of the grounds where a fair was being held. Some houses in the neighbourhood caught fire, and the wind carried the flames over the way to the temporary structure in which the show was being held. Fortunately no performance was going on at the time. An immenee^orowd aasembled, and once or twioe there was a panic when the liona and tigers were heai-d roaring as the fire came nearer and nearer to them. All the poor brutes were either suffocated or roasted alive. One pair oJ tigers are aaid to have been worth •£IOOO. The total value of the animals is estimated at and none of them were iusured, no insurance company having been found willing to take the risk. It happened that it was high tide on the sea shore when the fire broke out. Bat for this fact, it is believed that the entire town would have been destroyed, as at low tide the supply of water would have been alto gether inadequate to cope with the con flagration.
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