Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-09-04
OLD JOHN ROBINsON's CARD.
Tickets for sale.

Locke's book and news stand, No. 1864
Main, near the corner of Jefferson; Il.
Lowenstein & Bros, dry goods store,
corner Of Main and Jefferson, and at
Sidney Cooks cigar store at the Pea
body Hotel. The price of tickets will
be one dollar for adults, and fifty cents
for children under ten years of age.
One ticket takes you through the grand
triple combination. Three monster pa
vilions will be erected on Wednesday
next-one for the monster museum, one
for the menagerie and caravan, and the
third devoted to the circus and MENACE
rie. The location of the show ground
is on the bluff, between Madison and
Monroe. Doors will be open at Ia pm.
and 60 pm. D
An Old and Disting uished Resident
of the Pacific Const ON n Pleasure
Tour Through the United states,
Accompanied by His WIfe ana
children.
We yesterday met very prominent
Iinember of the old Spanish house of Don
Ieoninus, venerable old seaman, who
has been engaged for the last twenty-five
years in the pearl-oyster and fishery
business, on the west coast, and, having
amassed princely fortune, takes, in our
opinion, very sensible view Of life, and,
with his family, is visiting all the princi-
pal points of interest between San Fran
| o;ooo and Naw York
There is something very romantic in
the old gentleman's history. Cast adrift
when very young, in fact, born upon the
very shores of the Pacific, he grew up
with an ardent desire to follow the sea
for an existence. In few years, after
becoming an adept in the art of diving,
he would frequently make excur-
sions to the bottom of the ocean
for oysters, in which the costly and
elegant pearl were wont to nestle, with
out any other protecting armor than
that which was furnished by nature, and
often, while making these perilous voy-
ages, was savagely attacked by that
pirate of the ocean, the blood-thirsty
shark, and the numerous deep and
Jagged scars which he will always carry
bear testimony to the desperate nature
of these bloody and sanguinary enconn-
ters He has been to the bottom Of the
ocean over FIVE thousand times, and
very frequently has been accompanied
by his wife and children. They never
yet used the diving apparatus or the bell,
and think such new-fangled ideas cause
more deaths in one year than would oc-
cur in lifetime with the armor that
nature furnishes them. His wife and
children have accompanied him so often
in his diving excursions that they are
nearly as proficient as himself in search
| ing for the treasures of the deep sea.
There is one thing very remarkable
about this wonderful family, and
that is their extraordinary appetite
for fresh fish, preferring it at all times
to the choicest morsels of meat, and it
is said that the old gentleman will con-
sumo several pounds at single meal
when right hungry, and the rest of the
family are voracious fsh-eaters. So
long have they been isolated from So
ciety that they have lost the use of the
English language entirely, and make
their wants known through an interpre-
ter who accompanies them always. The
markets are secured daily in search of
the choicest fish, and, should their inter
prefer fail in procuring the daily guam
tity consumed by them, they manifest
their dissatisfaction in bursts of anger
terrible to witness. The above would
seem to SAVIOR pretty strongly of fish, but
| if any one has any doubts about the
| truth of the story let him visit Old John
Robinson museum, menagerie, caravan
and circus, which will come to Memphis
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of
this week, and he will see the old mon
ster sea-lion, his wife and two children,
and he will be convinced that the above
is no idle tale of fiction, but truthful
representation of the sea-lion.