Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1871-07-07

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The wagons used for the conveyance of
baggage when the company IL moving
are converted into sleeping rooms at night,
by letting down shelves, which when c.
uuipped with bedding and blankets form
very comfortable berth. Each wagon ac-
commodities twelve persons. Another iea-
ture worthy of notice Is the manner In
which the baggage IL carried. If each per-
son carried "Saratoga," of course 1t would
require some fifty wagons to carry the
trunks. 10 obvfate this difficulty, the
clothing and other personal effects Of the
employees are kept in large wagon. The
possessions of each one are numbered.
This wagon is in charge OF clerk, who
has reduced his business TO science, and
with the same skill that a photographer
picks out your old negative" from among
a thousand others, when you order an ad-
ditional dozen cdTtes des visiteS, this gentle
man can produce the article called for at a
moments notice.
Having satisfied ourselves that Barnum's
numerous employees know how TO groom
their stock, as well as how to keep a ho-
tel we will now take our readers with MS
TO the great show, the doors Of which are
by this time opened (of course they must
buy their own tickets, for the management
are not in the habit of "papering" their
house rather than play 10 empty benches),
and we shall see whether PbiReds has kept
faith with tbespablie, for we have glim-
mering recollection that he promised not
long ago to make this last great effort the
"crowning success Of his managerial life,'
which we are Of course bound to believe,
although we have also sort of inquistiye
penchant to "look for the proofs Already
the masses of curious sight-seers are occl-
pying every foot of available ground, the
three ticket wagons being literally beseged,
from which the necessary cards of adnls-
sion are being rapidly distributed at fifty
cents per head for adults, children hall
price, and very soon the thres colossal tents
are full TO overlooking with anxious spec
tators.
The first impression that one receives on
entering is that of bewilderment, such il
the magnitude, extent, variety and uni
queness of the combination. Here in al
most endless variety we see gathered To-
gether from all parts of the earth minia-
ture representation of the wonder world,
that nobody but Barnum would ever
thought of or secured for travelling eN-
hibition. In the Museum we behold living
human phenomena, strange freaks OF ma.
ture, curious arts and manufactures OF all
nations, interesting relies of antiquity,
Egyptian mummies 5000 years old, lmple-
ments of warfare, ancient arms, relies OF
the recent Franco-Prussian war, gathered
from the battle fields of Gravelotte, Metz,
Sedan and Paris, such as swords, shields,
helmets, needle guns, Chassepots, cuirasses
and mitrailleuscs, fac SMILES oil Powers
japanese priests and Chinese gods, lille size
wax figures of Emperor William, Prince
Bismarck; Won Moltke, Charles Dickens
and Napoleon Ill, wonderful moving
mechanical and automaton figures OF the
dying Zouave, Sleeping Beauty, young
lady Bell Ringers, Zouave trumpeter, life
size, strictly mechanical-wherein all the
merit of these remarkable moving figures
really lieS-for it is surprising to see What
human ingenuity can accomplish in rend-
ering these objects so true 10 life as almost
to deceive an expert; mechanical singing
birds. specimens of wearing apparel used
by the EsquimauX and Fejee Islanders,
live digger Indians from this Yosemite Val
ley; sections of bark, 81 inches thick, from
the big trees of California; premium speci-
mems of patchwork and darning," sent to
the A1ricultuIiSt, New York, last winter
and spring, which Mr.. Barnum purchased
from the Old Bowery Mission-in fact ,.an
infinitesimal variety Of curious and instruc-
tive things, which must be seen hy every
one at least once in lifetime.
The most remarkable of living wonders
are Mons. Goliath, the French giant, y feet
high; Admiral Dot, the California Dwarf,
70 iricitv- hfs5i, uii, 's.sa "'t 's'.'-
Is pounds, much smaller than Tom Thumb
ever was at his e; Anna Jones, the beard
ed child, only five years old, who is liter
ally covered with hair and whiskers, and
Annie Leak, the lady born without arms,
who knits, chochets, sews, writes, and uses
the scissors, &c, with her toes with mar
VelouS dcNterity.
DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL HISTORY.
From the great museum collection we
turn to the department of natural history,
the geological garden, which contains four
royal Abysinian lions, the largest we ever
saw, black rhinoceros, three Asiatic ele-
plants, two baby elephants, about four feet
high, twelve cames and dromedaries, two
of the variety being the Bactrian, or two
bumped species, an African Gland, Th-
betian Yak, an Asiatic nyighan; South
American llama, Maylayan tapir, pair of
royal Bengal tigers, beautiful black leop-
ard from Java, said to the first and only
one of this strange variety ever seen in the
United States, n gold-spotted leopard,
giant kangaroo, Abyssinian wart hogs, or
vlack varke, pink-eyed Albiro deer,
mammoth gorilla, called the lion slayer,
looks like a Cynocephalus, beautiful live
birds of paradise, and magnificent collec-
ton of den of monstrous reptiles 20 feet
long, stuffed varieties, happy family of
bears, prairie dogs, pigeons, chickens, rats,
mice, monkeys in endless variety, cocka-
toos, parrots, and parak eetS all living in
unison and harmony in the same cages-a
sort of millennium protigured by the pro-
phet of the oden time. As ii to ''scorn tho
scanty limits of the world" the great show
man has descended into the watery deep
not to "drag up drowned honor by the
moth collection with monster sea lion.
alligator, walrus, seals, etc., aud curious
living molusks from the realms OF Undine.
In fact, our pen fairly wearies in It's at
iempts to note all the really novel and in
teresting features, animate and inanimatc,
historical and representative, contained ia
this depa tment of the exposition. Dan
Castcllo's mammoth circus, which is kind
of gratuitous entertainment to relieve the
exhibition of mono;ony, is really good,
containing some uf the very best talent in
the profession, aud the finest and best
| trained trick horses we have ever seen.
With all these unique and bewilderins
attractions our faith has been wonderfully
/ increased, and we shall no longer doubt
/ why it is that z. r. Barnum is the happlesI
/ and the most successful show operator That
! ever came before the American public, ana
no man more than he deserves, H. he j.
constantly receiving, their unstinted and
Unprecedented patronage. The great show
is now on its triumphant tour through
Northern New England, and will no doubt
be visited by myriads everywhere. rs It
/ has been here and elsewhere.