The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-09-04
MAMMOTH SHOW.
A Visit to Adam FOrepaugh's
Great FiVe-Tent Aggreg a.
liOn.
It's Superiority Over rAn Others.

Great FiVe-Tent rega.
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Its Superiority OverAn Others.
After an absence of two years, the
"Great Forepaugh Show" is to visit
this city on Monday, September 18th,
exhibiting afternoon and evening.
That Mr.. Forepaugh has the larges.
and finest Menagerie, Museum, Cara
van and Circus ever organized, is ad-
mitted by the public everywhere, and
by the show fraternity generally. In
proof of this assertion we insert the
following well-written description of
this famous show, taken from the
Columbus State Journal of recent
date, feeling quite sure it; will interest
many of our readers, and at the same
time we cheerfully commend this
really meritorious exhibition to the
patronage of our entire community.
When it comes to fitting out such mon
ster exhibition as Adam Forepaughs, the
average mind becomes bewildered, and the
very thought of it is tedious. When one
remembers that the male employees of this
mammoth enterprise alone number over
600, and that the horses are roughly con-
jectured to number GOO more, while the
ANIMALS AND BIRDS AMOUNT TO THREE
- q THOUSAND,
one can begin to form some inadequate idea !
of the prodlgious courage, pluck and deter
mination which is necessary to carry ON |
such an aggregation of wonders.
For the past ten years Mr. Forepangh has |
been recognized as the very head and front |
of the show profession. Year after year he
mas gone on, regardless of expense, shaping
public opinion and taste in the grooves they
should run, every season presenting more /
superior exhibition, increasing the size and |
merit of his show, until he now, to-day,
presents
sTUPENDoUs COMBINATION, /
such as the world never saw before, and
probably never will again. To attempt to
describe all its wonders would take avoiume
persons whom circumstances may prevent
from visiting it in person, we are convinced
that they cannot fail to relish brief ac-
count of it at least, and thus benefit by
knowledge of its manifold attractions.
In the first place, this gigantic affair is
exhibited under no less than
FIVE DIFFERENT TENTS,
each one of which is devoted to peculiar
phase of the show world, and there are in
addition probably at least forty other small
er tents, which are used by the employees
for sleeping eating and living in, and for
stablng the splendid stud of horses, and
which when erected complete a scene of al
most fairy like, beauty and ,enchantment.
The endless expanse of snowy canvas, the
sea of gaily colored flags, the neatly uni
formed servants. and the countless and
beautiful horses, make visit to the ground
alone well worth undertaking.
The first of the exhibition tents is devoted
to the TssFs-. z i1gsLlA
FREE MENAGERIE!
While admission to the geological gardens
in several European cities has been fixed at
very moderate fee, to Mr.. Forepaugh be-
longs the honor of being the first man in
this or any other country, to exhibit to the
public free Of all charge, as large and fine !
a collection of wild animals and rare birds
as are to be seen in any travelling menager-
ie in this country, for an admission fee
Never before have the public had the priv
ilege of witnessing, without money and
without price, free RaenGgerie! embracing j
all the rare animals exhibited in first-clasS
menageries as elephants, camels,
lions, tigers, hyenas, etc, etc. To many
struggling, honest, hard working mechanic,
to many poor shop girl, apprentice boy, I
and others, in every community, tins great
free wild animol show can but prove
source of pleasure and to many of great in
struction, as affording them a preliminary {
knowledge of that most interesting of all |
sciences-Natural History. The visitor
next enters the
MUSEUM,
and in the language of John Milton
"Herc all the wonders of most wondrous art,
And many strange things meier conceived of here
tOfOre
Were gathered in great prodgal abundance"
Among the most prominent of these in
animate euriosities are the
FEMALE BELI-RINGTRs ,;
These are group of mechanical figures,
seven in number, all elegantly dressed, who,
with silver bells, execute variety of charm
ing melodies in a most wonderful manner.
We next behold a representation of
sleeping maiden, radiant with beauty, and {
breathing precisely as if alive. This piece
of mechan SIN is said to have cost Mr.. Fore
paugh five thousand dollars.
Passing by vast and interesting collec-
ton of relics and mementoes of the Revo-
lutionary war, and unrivalled gallery of
statuary, the famous Siamese Twins, the
mechanical dog, monkey, cat and birds all
of whom are engaged in making music, and
the two-headed girl, we come upon THE
Dying Zouave," which is life-sized moving
figure, dressed in French uniform, strug-
Cling in the
AGoNIEs OF DEATH,
while Sister of Charity leans over him try
ing to staunch the wound, the whole COM
pleting scene of great naturalness and So
lemhity. . g-f.A "a ~ 5,ttr-
We now reach the entrance to tents 9,
and 4, containing the unequaled menagerie
and aviary.
Moreover this commander
Had summoned every living thing beneath the
skies
To come and worship at his sovereign feet;
Quadrupeds, bipeds, elephants, and flies,
The bird republic also there did meet"
The first thing we notice on entering tent
g is large and richly caparisoned herd of
camels and dromedaries, crouched in differ
ent positions aronnd the center of the tent,
and irresistbly reminding the spectator of
the sandy deserts of Arabia, which can only
be trayersed by these truly wonderful beasts.
Here are also pair of black and white
6actrian camels, which are double-humped
and the only specimens of the kind ever
brought to America. We next come upon
GIGANTIC RHINooERos,
inclosed in an iron den of the most capa-
c!ous dimensions. This huge monster can
be better imagined than described, for in
the words of The Bible, s'His bones are as
strong as pieces of brass: His bones are
like bars of iron" The weight of this ami
NAL is over four tons; his cost was $4,000
and twelve of the heaviest horses obtainable
are required to convey him from town to
town. After giving passing glance and
handful of ginger cakes to the performing
elephants, whose education seems to have
reached the highest point of elephantine
training, We halt before den containing
two lions and two tigers, who appear to be
extremely feroclous. These are the ami
mails that made such savage attack upon
their keeper, Herr Darious, about year
ago, but who now allow him to enter their
cage and perform them in the presence of
thousands of spectators. One of these lions
is a genuine African, and the other large
Caf1re, and both of them pace up and down
with restless dignity.
"Poor conquered lion-from that naughty glance
Still speaks the courage unsnbdued by lime,
And in the grandeur of thy sullen tread
Lives the proud spirit of thy burning clime!"
We are next attracted by full-grown
African Eland. This rare animal is five
feet in height, and its horns are eighteen
inches in length. A ioness and her cubs
are next noticed, and passing by Russian