Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-07-30
FOREPAUGHS
Great Trdreling Museum !
A WORLD OF WONDERS
1othtng animals and Noqag Aechon
tcai Figures!
ELVES, FAYS AND UNDINES
THE ENCHANTED LAND.
ROYAL MORiONETTESi

Heathen Idols of Wood and Stone l-Instru.
ments OF Torture Fossil Remains Stat
nary !-Chncse and japanese Curio,itics T.
MIS- Jarley's Great Wax X-work Show Bell.
ringers -Mechasical Trumpcters Il Drum.
lners lin all 10, 900 Wonderful Objects
our readers will bear in mind that he great
forcpaugh Aggregation, which is TO EXHIBIT
AT Darlington, Tuesday, August 4tb, IN actoi,
non 10 It's enormous menngeric of !, 800
beasts and 500 birds, and no two eircnses,
each IN separate rings, exhibits also the most
magnificent
TRAVELLING MUSEUM
ever presented to the American public 1t Is
quite common nova days for showmen TO
a'nX the word "mu>eum" to the title OF their
tXhloiions, but with "A single exception there
Is but one travelling museum In The United
States: Some idea of The magnitude of Fore.
paneh's museum may be formed from the
fact that $500, 900 have been expended in
organizing it. For single piece Of mechan.
ism, called the
ENCHANTED LAND,
the sum of SEQ, 900 was expended It repre-
senls the tabled and legendary abodes of
woodland dcities, stream of real water is
seen, and nymrhs, fairies. etc, dancing, and
Tiny cupids emerging from buds and blooming
flowers.
manufactured NJ Paris, represents an "orcan
grinder, turning the cnnk of his organ, pro-
ducing music, and actually smoking pipe.
TlIE FEMALE BELL RINGERS,
a eroupe Of six young ladies playing upon sll
yer bells with perfect time and harmony, is
another wonderful piece Of mechanism. The
famous
SLEEPING BEAUrY,
breathing precisely as if alive, Is n remarkable
specimen OF the art automatique. A coleo-
lion OF the instruments of tor ure, and relics
from the Holy Land pompeii, Egypt and
other ancient countries cannot but interest
The student of history Hcuhen idols from
distant lands, will give the scholars in the
Sunday School an idea Of the benighted con
dlion OF those beings who bow down TO wood
und stone,
1900 BEAUTIFUL birds,
rendered life-like by the skillful hands of the
ihXlderInist, constitute an attractive feature
in the museum, and in these days of TEN per
ance reform nothing can be more suggestive
of The evils of lndulging In spirtuous liquors
than the tablraux representing The Tenn
peratc" and "lntcmperate Family" For tho
especial qualification of the
JUVENILE PUBLIC,
Manager Forepaugh has purchased from those
celebrated French mechanicipns, Aphonse
GirouX ~ Co., variety Of dioramic, fantoclni
and transformation scenes. One of these rep
resenis travelling show (n minalurc) NOV
ing over the country An endless train of
cages is seen, draw by pgmy horses and
ponies. Elephants, camels, and chariols APP
pear in the procession, and at intervals per.
formers appear and act their various parts.
The wonderful precision with which all the
movements OF the myriad figures are regulated
and the grotesque appearance Of the riders,
leapers, etc, fill the youthful mind with won
der and delight.
PAIR OF FIGHTING BOOSTERS
represent couple of game fouls in fighting
attitude, necks extended, and darling nj each
other, precisely as is the cuttotn OF that an
cIent fowl, The victor flaps j. wings, crows
triumphantly as he heholds his adversary re-
treating. 1t should be remembered that these
effects are all the results of wonderful Mer
chanical ingenuity.
HALns OF sTATUARY,
presenting Daphne, Greek Slave, Mercury,
Venuss a polio Belviderc, oil ch,elled from
pure Italian marble, and life like figures from
Madame lussaud's famous gallery, London,
Engl md, representing Victoria. Bismarck,
Napoleon, Dickens, Baron Won Moltke, Prince
Frintz and many other distinguished person
ages of modern and ancient times, are also
MARINE WONDERS,
exhibiting specimens Of the different classes
OF fish found in the BAYS, rivers and lakes in
all parts OF The world, are ,asteiuly arranged
for the inspection OF all interested in the study
Of ichthyology
TIE TW0-lIEADED GIRL,
born in North Carolina in 1852 Two African
girls whose bodies are indissoluby Joined to-
gelhcr. The bond of union Is rs inches in
circumference
THE DYING zOUAyE
is a masterpiece of mans ingenuity Repre-
sents "a soldier in the agonics OF death, his
eyes open and close, his BODY quyefs in death
~ throcs and his lfe. blood is seen oOzing from
bul ct wound in his breast. This and the
Mechanical Drummer and Lcotard were man
nfacturcd for the great Forepaugh Musela
al cost Of $50, 900.
OTHER CURIosITiEs.
Space will not permit us to make further
allusion to Ire numbercss rare, strange and
wonderful curiO-ties animate and inauimate
contained 10 this great travelling museum
We are assured that il is well worth ait that
Is asked to visit The entire aggregation, to be-
hold any single curiosity in the lo,OoO which
the museum contains and Jet IL be bOrpe ia
MIND that an enormous menagcrie, two cir
cuses in two rings, and gigantic performing
animal show, al under q com bnatiOn OF eirbt
mammoth tents, together with this gfbDd
museum, can be visited for the small San Of
10 cents, children 25 cents, on August IN