Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1874-06-06

P. T. BARNUM's GREAT TRAVELLING WORLDS
FAIR AND INTERNATIONAL AMUSEMENT EXPO
sITIoN. Although this stupendOus amusement
combination Is to pitch its acres Of canvas
colleges for the first time in Bradford, Tues
day, June 10th, its national fame has given it
the most favorable of local iutroductions
everywhere, and there are, besides, many of
our readers who, having seen it elsewhere, are
prepared to unquali6edly indOrse the asser-
ton that it is really more than twenty superb
or shows in one, and in marvellous magnitude,
magnificence, variety and moral character,
cent, costly and extraordinary enterprise in
all the annals Of field entertainment.
When this gigantic combination was first
put upon the road, the managers of shows
previously considered tirst-eass in proportions
jeered ut it as madman's experiment. and q
crazy innovation on tn eold-rut order of things
which could never be made to pay 1.-THE of
the running expenses, and certain to break in
pieces from it's unwieldy weight, and fall in
pOnderOus irretrievable ruin upon its proiec-
tors head. The result-aven far beyond Mr..
Barnums own most sangnine anticipations-
is too well known to require comment. There
was method in his madness, utterly con-
founding the dismal sawdust prophets. His
lunacy was contagious, and soon began to set
the whole country wild Crazy millions con-
gregated from all sections to view the almost
superhunan results of this crazy curiosity
seekers managerial efforts; and his wild re-
searches and speeulatiOns have more than
kept pace with the eliminating excitement,
until the press-mOonstruck, like al! the rest
unanimously pronounces the result altogeth-
er too multitudinOus for description. In the
words Of Coleridge' priest, "Wllere all the
world Is mad tits worse than madness to be
sane j" and so, when the 900 men and horses
100000 cardinal curiosities, 1,500rare animals,
birds and reptiles, and superb procession of
THE Worlds Show" make their appearance
this community, and those adjacent, may as
well calmly prepare themselves for an cpl
demic attack of emotional insanity, which
will eliminate in visit to the vast city of
twenty centre.pole pavilions, canopying the
wonderful Talking Machine, which laughs,
sings and converses fuently in many tongues,
the only living Giraffes in the country; the
mastodonic four-ton Asiatic Rhinoceros, as
large as a common elephants the unrecon
structed FIJI Cannibals, with ineradicable
penchaat for missionary chops; monster liv-
ing Sea Lions from the North Pacific, in huge
tanks of water; Admiral Oct, the pigmy of
dwarfs and smallest man that ever lived %
steam engine operated Hall of Automatons
and Polytechnic Institute, containing hun
bred of most wonderful life-imitating figures
and fairy scenes a colossal triple circus troupe
of star performers, appearing at the same
time in two separate rival rings, in pOrta-
BILE amphtheatre: with seats for $4,000 specta-
tors; together with scores of other notable
features. each one Of which Isl show in itself,
and united return ten times the price of adj
mission in live lessons and healthful, harmless
So put your household in order,
and prepare to 90 crazy on the date above
named, over p. I +. Barnum's insane but emf
nently successful effort to put himself full
century ahead of all other Snowman, and es-
tablish veritable Travelling Worlds Fair.