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ROMAN WILD HORSES

TAMED BY COW-BOYS. RIDDEN IN FIVE MINUTES. HOW "BUFFALO BILL'S" COW-BOYS
TAMED THE ROMAN WILD HORSES.

(Per the Commercial Cable to the "Herald.") ROME, 4TH MARCH, 1890.

All Rome was to-day astir over an attempt of "BUFFALO BILL'S" cow-boys with wild
horses, which were provided for the occasion by the Prince of Sermoneta.

Several days past the Roman authorities have been busy with the erection of specially
cut barriers for the purpose of keeping back the wild horses from the crowds.

The animals are from the celebrated stud of the Prince of Sermoneta, and the Prince
himself declared, that no cow-boy in the world could ride these horses. The cow-boys laughed
over this surmise, and then offered, at least, to undertake to mount one of them, if they might
choose it.

Every man, woman and child expected that two or three people would be killed by
this attempt.

The anxiety and enthusiasm were great. Over 2,000 carriages were ranged round the
field, and more than 20,000 people lined the spacious barriers. Lord Dufferin and many
other diplomatists were on the Terrace, and amongs Romans were presently seen the con-
sort of the Prime Minister Crispi, the Prince of Torlonia, Madame Depretis, Princess
Colonna, Gravina Antonelli, the Baroness Reugis, Princess Brancaccia, Grave Giannotti, and
critics from amongst the highest aristocracy. In five minutes the horses were tamed.

Two of the wild horses were driven without saddle or bridle in the Arena. "BUFFALO
BILL" gave out that they would be tamed. The brutes made springs into the air, darted
hither and thither in all directions, and bent themselves into all sorts of shapes, but all in
vain.

In five minutes the cow-boys had caught the wild horses with the lasso, saddled, sub-
dued and bestrode them. Then the cow-boys rode them round the Arena, whilst the dense
crowds of people applauded with delight.

AMERICAN WILD WEST EXHIBITION.

Editorial from the "London Times," Nov. 1, 1887.--The American Exhibition, which has
attracted all the town to West Brompton for the last few months, was brought yesterday to
an appropriate and dignified close. A meeting of representative Englishmen and Americans
was held, under the presidency of Lord Lorne, in support of the movement for establishing a
Court of Arbitration for the settlement of disputes between the country and the United
States. At first sight it might seem to be a far cry from the Wild West to an International
Court. Yet the connection is not really very remote. Exhibition of American products and
scenes from the wilder
phases of American life
certainly tend in some de-
gree at least to bring Amer-
ica nearer to England.
They are partly cause and
partly effect. They are the
effect of increased and in-
creasing intercourse be-
tween the two countries,
and tey tend to promote a
still more intimate under-
standing. The two things,
the Exhibition and the
Wild West show, supple-
mented each other. Those
who went to be amused
often staid to be instructed.
The Wild West was irresist-
ible. COLONEL CODY sud-
denly found himself the
hero of the London season.

THE FIGHTING CHIEF, KICKING BEAR, AND STAFF, CAMPAIGN 1891. PINE RIDGE.