Transcribed by Susan Bergeron. Geo. The Carlisle Patriot Friday, February 13, 1880 Cruelty in Sport At the Alexander Palace, one Zaeo, "the flying trapezes," was advertised to execute a feat called the "Balista flight," the point of which consisted in the performer's being shot from a box by a powerful spring, under the impulse of which she was to make several evolutions and then descent into a net. In one of the rehearsals Zaeo struck her head against a projecting iron, and fell into the net senseless and streaming with blood. In speaking of this accident we said that, after what had happened, there need be no fear of the "Balista flight" being actually performed. In this respect we under-rated the zeal of the British manager. Possibly at the Alexander Palace it was not performed. But, if so, others were ready to rush in where the directors of the Alexander Palace feared to tread. The "Balista flight," or something closely resembling it, has been performed at the Aquarium, and on Saturday the waiting public were gratified by the accident which they had presumably hoped to see. The cause of the accident this time was not a projecting iron, but the over-strength of the spring by which the performer is shot out of the box. Zaeo was sent forward with so much force that she broke through the net placed to receive her, and struck the ground beneath with a crash, and received much injury. Yet she is appearing again this week. Saturday Review. .....