The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-06-20
A MERITORIOUs EXHIBITION.

Forepaugh's famous Menagerie, Museum,
and Great Circus Company, is to exhibit al
Kenesha, SATURDAY, JUNE Doth. With @
working force of 525 men and horses. a col
lection of rare animals, numbering nearly
500, from all parts Of the world, and many
thousand curiosities in the Museum, and a
circus which is said to present more novelty
than any now travelling, we predict an i'm
mense attendance TO witness the manifold
attractions to be presented on that occasion.
Week before last it was at Chicago, and the
Journal thus alludes to it;
'It can ne said without reserve of Adam
Forepaugh's circus, menagerie and museum
combination that it is the most extensive ex-
hibition of the kind ever seen in the West.
It is perfect in detail and ense nsbZe, and is so
immense when taken in the aggregate as to
require four full sized pavilions to afford ex-
hibiting space for the amin ais and orn1tho-
logical museum specimens, toget ner with the
usual large number of performers for the
arena. The tents are so situated that any
one may be visited alone, and the others
avoided. This mammoth aggregation of
wild animals from the noun tains, plains and
iungles of different parts of the globe birds
of every cline, and fishes from the deep
seas, together with one of the largest and
best companies of gymnastic and equestrian
performers in the world, gave its first exni-
bition in this city yesterday afternoon, at the
corner of Elizabeth street and West Madison.
The tents were visited during the afternoon
and evening by fully five thousand people.
While the largest proportion of the crowd
letic performances, there were yet large
numbers who chose TO feast their eyes and
Imagination on the wonders of the menag-
erie and the museum. The general express
sion was that of the most perfect satisfaction.
The first tent, denominated No. l, contains some
truly wonderful attractions, altogether forming a
most interesting museum. 1t is the usual faults
of the advertisements of shows of this class to
overdo the matter, by patent extravaganza, thus
doing harm to the establishment whose interest
they are designed to forward, but it may be truth
fully said T. at it's merits above reproach. The
second tent contains an aggregation of specimens
of the denizens of Asiatc and African jungles,
from the wild hog to the elephant Romeo
and royal Bengal tiger or the fierce African lion
TIL ere is in this collection perfectly black tiger,
the only member in captivity of family whose
numbers are few. The third and fourth tents are
devoted to the sports ofthe arena. Here are intro
duced some OF the most emmett men and women
of their profession in this country. The lady
equestrianisms, the trick animals the clowns, the
practices of ground and lofty tumbling, trapez(
performers-all are the fine st performers and per
forman ces that have been seen in Chicago. Mia
is more gratifying perhaps than any other single
thing is the patronage which this grand exhibition
receives from the better classes, those whom
writer's have never chosen to include among th
amusement lovers, but who have been reserved t.
give greater ecIat 10 the opening performances 0
f:st-cass operas, circuses. men ageries etc. Etpe
caI attention is drawn to the menagerl tent from
the fact that the animals appear so clean. and wei
cared for. There is bat the very faintest ahsn
odor distinguishable in the animal tent Tn
great Bactrian camels, the South Amencal
Llama, and hippop otamus, the gnu, the tapfr, an
all are lively and! interesting specimens ofthe an
imal kingdom. The circus will have two perfol
mances every day throughout the week, while tn
menagarie and museum will be open all the time
to whatever visitors may enter. The audlenc
was largely composed Of we'll dressed ladies yes
| terday, which was Ia surprising and gratifying
spectacle of the interest which clusters aroun
such places of amusement, swhen they are thQi
oughly unobjectionable.
ANY one who attends Forepaughs Henagarfe
ETC., will find himself amply repaid the price c
admission, on looking through tie first pavilion
Everybody who has catholic love for genuin
wit and humor, will find the circus, among tn
clowns, very entertaining.