Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1852-08-25
?. L. BARNUMS
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Museum and Menagerie!

1HE largest Travelling EXHIBIT ION ia the
Il word, be Dg combination OF all the moss
popular a"d unexceptioBal amusemel Is offhe age
-enlarq,d d and improved for the season of IS52.
TEAM OF 10 ELEPHANTS
Will draw the great Car ot. Jsgger4aut,
BABY ELEPHANTf
Oaly year old, and but 81 feet high, will csrvy
upon his back around the interior OF the immense
Pavilion the Lillptutian GEN. TOM THUMB.
The Magnificent Cortege comprises $50 horscsabd
l30 men. The Pavilion of Exhibition has heeu
enlarged until il 10 capable of accommodating lbs
600 spectators al once. The collection OF lIplLg
Wild Beasts includes the most splendid specimens
ever exhibited in America. Among many otheR
will be found
Six Beautiful Lions
Fresh from their native forests.
A SACRED BURMESE BULL
From the Island OF Ceylon, worsbiped by the Pa.
gan Natives, and recently taken from Iiolalroos
Temple.
A MONSTER WHITE OR POLAR BEaRiAof
prod gious size and ierocity. -
A MAGNIFICENT ROYAL TIC GER.--The lafg-
est one ever captured alive.
AN INFANTILE CAMEL-onIy six mop,hsf of
age, the first one ever born in America, &c., SO.
The Drove of ELEPHANTS were captured in
tho JungIes of Central Ceylon, by Messrs. B.
JUNE and GEO. NUTTER, assisted by s60 natives,
after pursuit of three months snd four days in the
Jungles. They were finally entrapped and secured
in Indian Kraal or Trap, of enormous Dimensions
and prodigious strength, where they were subdued.
The Calf Elephant accompanies its Dam, and was
weaned on its passage from India.
A NATIVE CEYLON CHIEF, of high caste in
his own country, has charge ofthe Elephants, has-
ing accompanied them from Ceylon.
P. L. BARNUM,
has the honor to announce, that encouraged by the
brilliant which has attended all his Various
efforts for the amusement oftbe public, he has been
led to form the project Of organizing vast travel.
lug.
Nsuset. I'M of Wonders,
Which comprises great variety distractions, and
more extraordinary novelties, than any travelling
exhibition in the world. Every feature OF this
mammoth establishment is of peculiar and inter-
esting nature, and the whole is produced upon a
gigantic scale of magnitude. The travelling para.
phernalia OF the American Museum, II enters
each town is proceeded by the gorgeous
Car Of Juggernaus,
Drawn by Ten Elephants sup,rbly csparisoned,
being an accurate model OF the terrible engine Of
idoatrous sacrifice, finished and decorated in all
the extravaganza of Htndoo style. Following this
monster vehicle, is long procession of costly
riages, the whole forming specticle OF more shan
Oriental splendor. The exhibition will take place
within mag ni6cent Varigated Pavilion, comppsed
ofAmerican flags of waterproof fabric. The real,
genuine, original
Gen. Tom Thumb
Is attached this exhibition and will appear in all
his performances as given before the principle
Greeiau Statues, .and his admired personauoas OF
Napoleon and Frederick the Great. The Iltlc
General is twenty yes=s of age, weighs fifteen
pounds, and is but twenty,eieht inches high. Also
engaged
MIR. Nellis,
The man without arms, who Will execute his extra
ordinary feats Of loading and firing pistol with his
toes; cutting profile ikenesses; shooting at q mark
with a bow and arrow, playing upon The Accerd0on
and Vioineello, etc. Mr. Neilis, in these Perhnrm-
ftti unfa oFx hat inriaH
table energy and industry accomplish, even
when laboring under disadvantages spparantly the
most insurmountable.
A complete Mensqene Of
Living Wild Animals.
IL also included in the American Museun, ind at
a convenient period during the exhibition
MT, Pierce =,
Will enter the Dens of Wild Beasts, and give his
classical illustrate of Hercules struggling with
the Nemean Lion; Daniel 10 the Lyons Den;
Sampson destroying the Lion, sc.
One ofthe most interesting portions Of the exhibi.
tion 10 formed by the display of great collection of
Wax Statuary.
Including figures Of the size OF life, Of all the Piesi
dents Of the United States, and also of great
ber of noted characters, American and Foreign, all
of which are accurate likenesses, and approprI-
ately costumed In fact the whole establishments 10
q vast repository of
Wonderful Objects of Nature and Art,
The full particulars of which It would be mposs BILE
to give within the limits OF Q newspaper anyeitse-
meni, and which has beon brought together at an
enormous expenditure Of means, forming the largest
and most novel travelling exhibition in this any
other country.
A fine Military Band will perform the most pop~
ular airs of the day the procession enrefs town,
and also during the hours OF exhibition.
The eAmrican Museum and Menagerie
WILL EXHIBIT AT RAVENNA,
on THURSDAY Sept. ed, 1859.
Doors open from II TO 4, aud from to O'Clock
P. M. Price Of admission IS Cents: Children