The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-05-25


n. g. ssnrnurn's Great Trnyeiing
Worlds Fnir and Universal Expo
siiion Os Features.
There are some propositions so incCntro-
yertihy established as to have long since
passed beyond the proprcty of discussion
/ For example: the world is Il round body,
and PIT Barnum's Great Travelling Worlds
Fair, which is to give morning, afternoon
and evening exhibitions at Rutland Satur-
day, June 9th, is incomparably the biggest
and best show in the world neither of
which assertions any intelligent person
dreams of disputing. Among the masses
the latter fact is as well, if not better,
known than the former, but it may not be
quite as generally understood that the
great American Monarch of Marvel Land
and Nimrod of curiosity hunters grows in
ambition and enterprise with the years, and
Is constantly adding to his vast moving
collection of museum, mechanical auto
matte and animal marvels, living phens-
mcna and arenic novelties, till his repre-
sentative exhibition has grown TO nearly
three times its original stupendous proper
tions. requires the services of over Il thou
sand energetic men and superior horses,
and presents under its acres of twenty
centre pole canyasscs, something ikea hun
dred thousand curiosltles, fifteen hundred
superb animals, birds, reptiles, and amphi-
bious marine monsters, and three great
combined circus companies Of the finest
artists in every department of
amphtheatrcal exercises and achieve
ments, who appear in superb rivalry, at
this grand aggregation is fully as remark
able for quality as size, many of each of
its scores Of monopolized specalties being
show OF themselves. There are, for in
stance, ia the steam engine operated Mu-
scum and Polytechnic Institute, hundreds
of the most ingenious and costly French,
Swiss and German automaton figures of
men, birds and animals, which mimic life
in many extraordinarily illusory ways; that
wonderful scientific sensation, the talking
machine which laughs, sings, and speaks
voice; the FL Dorado dwarf, Admiral Dot,
who is a Lillputian among the smallest
pigmics; the only FIJI cannibals ever
brought from their far and fearful island
home the only living CRATES in this
county; a mastodonic rhinoccros, weigh
ing four tons the remarkable horse riding
goat, Alexis monster North Pacific sea
lions, disporting and roaring in great tanks
of water; gigantic Glands, yaks, horned
horses, tapirs and v'ack varkes monarch-
cal lions, royal tigers, and many other rare
creatures and creations, too numerous to
mention.
Most great men are credited with some
remarkable ''last Words as a sort OF origi-
nal bequest to SURVIVING humanity, and
when Mr.. Barnum's turn comes-though
may he live to walk to his own funeral-to
join that caravan to which his friend Bry-
ant refers, and the only one more "innum-
cradle than his own, he will undoubtedly
gaze longingy afar toward Afric's sands,
Arctic seas, Egyptian tombs, Indian jun
giles, and European art repositories, and re-
peat the watchword of his life--"Moro
Features This is tie characteristic which
imparts such value and Irresistible interest
to his great exhibition, and will here, a:
elsewhere, receive the tribute of attendance
from everybody.