, 1874-04-23

MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT.
A literary md musical entertainment will DO
given ut Crows Opera Hall, Tuesday ovoning,
April %. There will bo readings by Prof. q.
Dnle Armstrong and musical selections BY Mrs.
Addie Hayous. Mr. e. q: stobbins, md Mr. O.
a. Hayons. Tho proceeds will aaaiat tho oauee
of temperance.
Whom the Roman mentioned as tho two grcat
necessities Of lfo OF his day bread and cironseB,
ho probably had but little ilen TINT hundreds Of
thousands OF years after lis day tho first would
be as great necessity or tho last as great d
plons'ro as thcy arc locked upon nov and
il he woro called upon to-day to inspect
a specimen Of latter-day bread or to visit nino-
tcenth-century circus, Ao would doubtless won
dor how Lis fcllow-couutryman co,ill have not
only put up with, but actually sighod for, such
poor bread and such miserable Bido-Blows. Tho
fact stands, howover, that though c1npires have
pasacd away, now worlds layo been discovered,
and tho oart Of to-day would to man Of the enry
ages be llke vast lnagfclan's tomplo; still tho
human heart Hhowa a woaknesa for tho Eroat
| necessity, bread, and Tho equally great luxury,
circuBcs. Tho circus Of to-day il In every respect
an improvement upon tic show with which the
| AuEustan Roman nBcd to try to cure lila ln-
onviahle ennni: 1t is needless to mention tl,es
| the circus Of tho days OF Horace WAS horrible
| place, where man againBt man and beast against
boast were pittcd in oontcat Of fo and death. aa
| spartacus Mccullough last week set the fact
forth III tho most prcsontablo manner, bit it
may bo well to say that nowadays the circus is
! highly moral entertainment, and that tho nhoW
OF a1r. Montgomery Queen, at present exhibiting
in the city at tho open lot on the corner Of Ada
and Madison streets, is as good q specimen
Of tho trst-class circus OF the day aa
Gun be anywhere seen. It is to certain extont
| Chicago exhibition, as tho menagelio andraany
Of tho performers hibornated horo Hince an ILL.,
timed gale turned tho circus tent upside down
performances would, like. the fret ap~
pcarnnco Of new play, be marrod some-
what by the lack of .praetice Of the
performers, but this anticipation was agrooaby
disappointed. Notwithstanding tho early soa- a- :
aon tho circus has boon vol filled at each Of its
performances, aud last night every seat was
crowded. The nonsgerio WIS none tho worse
for ta period Information. Tho h9Se elephant
as it did last tall, aud the only change dr.
which lad figured tLon as mere cubs,
had grown into roportlpn,s which rendered tnns t%
entiro troupe who formed Scamp m thu
Desert was the opening plece OF last nights
performance, aud, when tho acknowledgement
performers took up their respective p, positions.
Equestrian oaaestranism " Of Philo Nathans, which
showed that winter'a reat has not lost that per
y formor any Of ls cunning. Il; Little i; Mols Ill.,
> did not come up to time OIL tho bareback somor-
sault, sho promises that this afternoon tho foat
will not SO unaccon1plishod. Tho trapezo act Of
, , Leopold and Geraldine WIS 1lno gymuastle per-
l fornlance. aud the management OF tho globo oa
, horseback, by George Slonlan, was very goot:
i, indeed. an educated pony which said yea aut
no III most unmistnkablo manner, and q
| mule which no ono in tho placo was able to ride
wore tue most amusing beastsin the ring, and th'
,nerrimont thoy created almost equaled thu
= called forth by tho two clowns, Nat Austin a'!<
Billy Burke, whose fun It may be well to slate il
: | not single instance eyon vergod npor
:. tho vulgar. Take 1t altogether, tho shos
ia ono which any lady IN the cit.
O might 60 to with "a little fear of having eye O.
o ear offended aH ut any OF the theatres. lrsda:
= the circus moves to the South Side, but ther
will bo two moro performances at tho prosen
! piaco,-this morning and this afternoon.