The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1866-02-16
SHOWS cIRcusEs MRNAeERIEs-sNAxEs

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SHOWS CIRCUsEsr MRNAGERIES-sN MAKES
! The editor of the Charlottesville.
| Chronicle is a very pleasant but u very
unsophisticated young gentleman. III,
lives in a portion of Virginia that il
supposed to know everything. The
universally OF the Universityls know
ledge is not bounded by books. In fact
a large volume the size of Appleton's
Encyclopedia, Webster's Dictionary, the
latest edition of Shakespeare, and Gold
smiths Natural History. would no
contain that which these 5Universit,
mep don't know--including Bancroft
on the United States, and Pollard on The
Lost Cause. Hear what our Cl,arlottes.
vile contemporary has to say for himself:
| ut seems to Us as hard to get IN the
| Union as it is to get ont. The South
respectfully asks to move one way or the
other. We arc like the fellow who was
forced to go to the show, aud then moi
allowed to go any farther than where ht
mad paid for his ticket, We have beer
dragged into the doorway of the federal
tent, and are not allowed to see any OF
the performance except to settle with
the tax collectors. We can hear the
animals growing inside, and the crack
ing OF the ringmasser's whip, but we
can't see the show unless we pay foftwy
and take in colored lady. And tile
worst OF It is, they keep q great eagle
perched over The entrance, which if You
attempt to go back, swoops down upon
you and picks hole in yoQr head. Wo
justly think this. Unreasonable: thoy
ought either let us pass in OF refund our
money and tie up the eagle"
"a. Ward, and one wife," has been
lately travelling through tho recon-
structcd section of the country, and has
endeavored to cnlighten the people with
regard to the question of shows. Il Arter.
mus is one of the greatest of showmen,
= almost us great as 1Barnun,, superior
to our friend who lives on Marc GISIaare
and has u snake '''for show, stter
than Spalding and Rogers's big circus
or any other ''cus," New Orleans
or the Incompatible Lord (the Cid Cam
peadOr), of showmen in Chicago: but
what haveVnll these got to do will, it ? 1
The fact Of the ,patter is, our friend Mt
Charlottesville is "dead head" and
although dead heads OH railroads, ,when'I
slain, can get their money returned in
the shape of damages, we never knew d
Snowman yet give a "feller bis half dol |
lar back" when he couldn't get in, and
was-a dead head. The free list at the
big concern in Washington has been
suspended. 1t is,a benefit night, and |
even the press should not attempt to
force the door Keeper when benefits ars
coming off. The perfprmances-the |
pill say it-are grand complimentary
% Sambo and Dinal--anf ''you pays
your money and you takes your choice.n
You can't crawl in under the clEtain,--I
or the elephant is there with 1t cIoven
DOT, SCARE the monkeys, and the
'amels, and the camel-leopard and the
,irafe, and the tigers, and tho great
;ongoree-which belongs to the Gyas-
utis, and the Zeuglodon, and the
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