Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1854-04-06
a Great Show.

orr or HIS CAGE.-There was great comuo-
to liz Broadway about II o'clock Monday night
&r1- good reason for it-a wild animal was cut
ce his cage. Such a crowd, shouting, hallooing,
! slowing, pushing, -'li, talking, running, as we
ran into on cur way up the sidewalk on the west
side, somewhere near the Broadway Theater,
where our reader may recollect seeing very
large cotton sheet. upon which is tainted IN olc-
| zhant, appearantly about six feet high, tossing
about sundry lions and other small animals, such
as a rhinoceros of about three tons weight togeth-
er with the bpeds, mixing the whole up into zone
grand menagerie."
| Whether the whole are tied together with q
knot of boa constructors, we do not now recolect,
| but it is terrible picture, and sundry passen-
ccs have grown very nervous for fear one Of
those voracious 'EhanimaIs" should walk out Of
-Is picture and eat up all thc apple women !ef :
I've after the great dust tornado in that stree.
,-lf = fsliv earaled one of the same sort IN th.
! elephants native land.
7 did appear that this fear was about to be
realized the other night, for the cry was "The
Rhinoceros is out of his ''cage." There were
hundreds of men, each one trying 70 @et a look
down the open cellarway TO what would be
the result, whether the Elephant would eat the
Rhinoceros, Or whether he would pick him up
Win his trunk and throw him out of his under
ground gas-hghted apartment among the crowd
| in thc street Nobody seemed TO anticipate that
the Rhinoceros, ugly as he is, was going TO hook
/ tho Elephant to DEATH in a fair fight yet every
one who could not get near enough tc see seemed
! to lllink there was great fight gcing on down
thsre, because there was great noise, and those
vIp could see said that great bcsst was out Of
his cage, and there was q great fuss generally.
.swhat if-he should come out into the street %
said somebody.
! LET Linn come" said somebody else-and
] prcsay ssun he did como, right out among the
crowd, and started Off up Broadway as fast a. a
horse could walk, the great ugly beast and then
| such shouting and running away of the people;
it was decidedly the richest wi'd-beast show we
have ever seen.
| Hrrah, said everybody.
.'And no body hurt did he kill nobody 2"
| "No, rna'aIn, not q soul"
ooh dear, that was clever. Was he gen
tle9''
Yes ma'aln, entirely. He never kicked while
| g hundred men with ropes pulled him o 6 o. the
cellar into the street and on to a dray."
Dear me how gentle. And what became q
him ct last 90
'Cannot say rao-aEn, though boy said (but
he vas very bad boy, with great big bleck
busly bead. with a cigarin his mouth, and no.
TO be belevcd,) that they were going totake hin
to tologna-sausage mandatory up in Dog.
town"
'~Oh fugh Was he dead ?''
''0h yes, ma 'aIn, dead as Crystal Palace stock
and sold to Barnun, who declares that he car
calvanize more life into his dead carcase than b,
can into that. He has his thick hide off befor,
this time, and done up with forty pounds oc er
senit, and somebody is picking his bones, and
few months hence you may see him in the Muse
UNI just rs good as new, and great deal NOR
durable. Viva Ia Rhinoceros. 4 bas BoIogni
saussges l'-Nelg York Tribune.