The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1872-07-11

A BIG SHOW.

The celebrated Mcnagerie, Museum,
Performing Animal Show and Circus, OF
Adam Forepaugh is to exhibit at Mani
towoc, Saturday, July 18th, afternoon
and evening. During a series of exhibi-
tons recently given in tie Chicago by
this mammoth combination, hundreds
were daily turned from the entrance un-
able to gain admission, and from many
fatteriug notices observed in Ctica-
90 press, the following is selected In ord
er that our readers may be informed
what Chicagoans thought of Forepaugh' S
famous show. 1t is frem the Chicago
Tribune:
THE GREAT MESAGERIE, MUSEUM AND CIRCUS of
Adam Forepaugh, made its appearance upon our
streets yesterday III grand procession and eclted
the most favorable comment from all who witnessed
the splendid street pageant. The curiosity to see
things strange and novel is an attribute OF human
nature. We accustomed to see the animals which
pertain exclusively to our own latitude but II only
occasionally that have opportunity afforded US
to view the fauna of other zones than our own. We
are also curious witness surprising ieats, where
men and women risk their limbs and lives, ana TO
see those animals to which we have attributed IN
stinct merely acting precisely as II they were pos
sesesd of the mental powers of humanity. Fore
paugh's Grand Menagere, Museum and Circus pre-
sent attractive field to the observations OF tine
mere curiosity seeker or to the man OF science
Combining it does, a museum, where many rare
cHrosties in natural history and many specimens
of ornthoogical interest exhibited; menagerie
which comp rises all the and strange ANIMALS
which are absolutely unknown to the denzens OF this
hemisphere except dcscri ed in books OF travel,
and a circus i'll which the equestrian performers
male aud female-and those upon the sawdnst as
clowns gymnasts and juggleIs and the performing
animals-ths show is decidedly the best that has
ever appeared in this city. his grand exhibition IS
presented to the people under four mammoth tents,
the first of which is devoted to collection of rare
birds living and stuffed aud number of wax hg-
ures appropriately clothed, which by machinery are
made to seem-a as natural as life Among them, as
represented are the Last SUPPER the Diving Zu-
ave- the :Sieeping Beauty, the foremost men of the
Franco Prussian either side, and some ludi-
crons musical automatons In the second that all the
animals which are usually exhibited i'll the old-tlme
menageries and others which never before were
in this country in the hash confined in circle
CT cages Here to be seen the African gnu, the
grizzly lear, the ZEBRA the south American coyote,
the tapr, the African porcul ne the lama, the emeu
and other beasts and birds too numerous to
mention. In the thi tent is the sawdust ring. Tho
equestrianism of the male and female performers is
excellent the trained animals, the dogs and ponies
show almost human INTEL gence id their antics, and
the athletes who exhibit upon the trapeze and other
modes that the human form is capable Of alone give
satisfaction 10 visitors.
1t is customary among certain portion OF our
populatiau decry the circus and all its attendants
and no quarrel can be made with any man who OBJ
jects on the ground of moral conviction that such
exhibitions tend to the deba senent of public morals
museum of natural history, the nenagerle and the
circus under separate tents, and anyone e1-
anime the beauty and wonders of each without cast
ing glance at the others If so disposed