The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-10-23
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THE MUss
was originated by the efforts Of the pro-
prietor Of the show to train hippo
potamus to run around the ring and
jump through hoops and banners, after
the manner of trained ponies, the boss"
hoping, il successful, to make all rival
establishments take a back seat. For
several days this training had been going
on whenever the exhibition stopped
long enough in one place to afford
few leisure hours, but, up to the oc-
casion referred to, the hippopotamus
had only been allowed to perform in
private with his limbs pinioned by log
chains, and a large force of employees on
hand with red-hot pitchiorks, pickaxes,
crowbars and bricks, to sabdue him and
keep him within bounds should any
symptoms OF a rebellious spirit be mani.
tested. Everything was lovely, how.
ever; the Behemoth struck his gait ad-
mirably, and with such seeming good
nature that his owners determed to un-
shackle him for short time and make
him jump through paper balloons.
The assistants stationed themselves
around the ring. a mammoth balloon
was placed in position, and at the word
go" the shackles were unloosed, and
sure enough he did 60. Allowing his
under lip to drop down like that of a
steam canal dredge when it expectorates
mouthful of mud, the hippopotamus
gave q snort that reverberated through
the tent like thunder, and then plunged
forward through the balloon, wrecking
it in a very handsome manner, but un>
fortunately killing the two men that
held it and
UPsETTING THE LIONS CAGE,
which contained four lions of unusual
ferceness. The moment the overturned
lions cage caught the eye of the hip
popotamus he bounded at it, and bit out
a mouthful of woodwork and iron bars,
leaving an aperture through which the
lions escaped, and at once began to add
their roars to the tumult that ragged on
all sides. The big elephant Horace
Greeley" who had been quietly looking
on all this time, instead of keeping
check on his trunk, began to wave it in
the air, and, after a moments trumpet
ing, broke his fastenings, and picking up
the Cardiff Giant, which lay upon the
ground near by, threw this unfortunate
being clear across the tent, killing an
other man in its passage and knocking
in the end of the cage that contained
WILD RHINoCERos,
who at onece came out, and running his
horn into the ground, gave the now at
frighted showmen some specimens OF
plo wing that were never equalled by
human or steam power. The four lions
now began to lash their tails in fury
and walk in circles around the centre
pole, up which seventeen OF the show
men assembled the moment the hippo
potamus first beloved. The latter
animal was in the meantime diverting
himself by q set.to with couple OF
grizzly bears that he had liberated.
Horace Greeley" seemed to grow
more infuriated at this juncture, and
after killing couple of camels turned
his attention to the other cages, and
with one sweep OF his trunk demolished
each, the rhinoceros following behind
and completing the work.
FORTUNATELY THE CANVASS WAS NEW,
and without flaw, and all the liberated
animals were roaming about the in
closure. Hyenas sneaked around under
the seats, bears growled from the upper
benches, monkeys shrieked and chat
tered from the ropes and supports, and
the air was filled with flying cockatoos,
parrots, eagles, owls and other birds,
while ostriches roamed at will below,
and heard above all this uproar were
the pitiful calls from the seventeen men
who hung for dear life to the centre
pole, which was new and slippery and
difficult to clingto. The only animal that
retained presence OF mind was
BLARNEYUM's GORILLA.
His cage had escaped beingupset, and
he stood inside, beating his breast, and
roaring in that half dog bark and halt
leonipe roar that Du Chaillu describes
as "curdling the very hair on your head
when heard in an African forest" By
this time, however, voices were beard
on the outside, the entire neighborhood
having become aroused by the pande-
monium, and the moment the gorilla
heard these voices he changed his tae-
tics and shrieked: "For the love of the
holy St. Patrick help me out Of this
bloody scrape, and I'll never hire out Tor
a gorilla again as long as l live" We
will leave this unhappy animal to his
fate, and return to the
AWFUL SCENE GOING ON
around us, and among the other wild
beasts who had now made their way to
that portion of the tent used by the pro-
prietors as a museum. Excited by rage
and hunger Bengal tiger was the first
to attack the contents OF the museum,
and he commenced by killing the
temperate Man and His Family"
after which he sprang upon the "Sleep-
inc Beauty" and began to devour her.
The hyenas, who are not 30 particular
in regard to their diet, sprang upon the
"Drunkard and his Wife," aud were
-. foost;no IN them, The lions