The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1872-09-28
P. 7. BARNUM!
THE GREAT SNOWMAN OF THE WORLD
COMING.
Saturday, Oct. IL, is the time fixed
A Worlds Fair in Ottawa,

Our readers have been f:om time to time
informed that Phueas, the presiding genus Of
anusements in America, was going to visit OF
taw
The hero OF forty years battles with the
world and It's vici,situdes, will b. here with his
great sensational exhibition OF Saturday the
18th day Of October next This simple an.
nouLcement will make a stir among the people
Of La Sale county, equal TO that which will al.
nounce to the world, for the first time the result
Of the presen. campaign. Barnum !. equally as
popular as Grant or Horace himself. We are
not sure but he would make better President
than the champion Of the silent cigar He
can certainly make a better speech, while his
colossal amusement enterprises in fact al his
projects in lie, have resulted in the most as.
tonishing, il not brilliant success. Notwith.
standing the recent immeuse turn out at our
State Fair, which brought in the multi,udes
from all seeti ,ns Of the state We shall see
twenty ,hOusa, neople in Ottawa on the 18th
OF Oct. TO srec; Earnun and bis big show
His tour III he west has been one Of triumph.
Il has hlled the passenger cars Of all contigu.
railroad-, filled all the hotels, and generally
lett from $4,000 to $1,000 il each town it visits.
In fact, nothing like the excitement caused by
this show was ever before known either in this,
country or Europe. 1t is said to eclipse the
Jenny Lind excitement of lSjl.2. In the time
OF Jenny Lind, it is true, there was felt natiln-
al Interest aad anxiety to see the Swedish
Nightingale when she WAS first introduced by
M'. B.rnumin New York, which continued in
fact a. !o"y she remained in America But
this LIST grand achievement Of the eminent
Anerr.n Snowman, which il said TO be bril-.
t+nt a. .in''ion o' hi- Inan.gerial life, appears
II be rnr y 'i- .i>Orbiu. topics Of conversation
every .a'.r ia amn.e,nenr circles
h,' = 'Hi'ion IL n' immense proportions. a, it
rr1ur'- 'hrre sep .r,'e tr,in. OF Z r.. 10 trans.
port II. Thr whGl- !. eshited in SIX separate
n.mmo'c ptsiiiOus, rov-rin. ne,rly five acres
OF x'oun'. fne largest II these he yrea, hip.
po1rnm~ '~r,,. /. >,. to hold fifteen thou. ~
psop'~. s'v'"- "".h person c,m:nr'ube .ea,
l. n 49,. I'D three times -itre the -how
LEFT New iot> ~ April 1T. Many v,lu ,ble
additions. both to :he Museum, Poy',rnio ln.,i.
tute and Geological Gardens have ,i.o ben
made. The x -.a. Snowman has numerous gents
established in All part, of the void, who are
/ constautly shipping some rare novelty to add to
The s,t,so;ions Of hi- already colossal ex position
The beautiful giraffe, the wild FIJI c.nnibals
the live digger chelivan the frmou. eqaestri
| cdprtcor'sas, or horse..iding goat Alexis the
large group Of living monster sea.lious, which
| require to be kept in massive water tanks, the
| collection OF living human curiosities, strange
freaks of nature. Hundreds of thousands OF Gu.
rious, interesting and instructive features which
nobody but Barnum could secure, besides hun.
dred first.class artists in his hippodrome, are
sufficient Of themselves to call forth from the
public press, just such encom,ums as We see
everywhere in the wake OF this gigantic affair.