The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-08-26
The Largest Show OH earth coming to
Toledo, Saturday, August 2Sth.

Yesterday the Great International Me
nagerie, Museum, Aquarium and Circus
inauguratcd their second annual tour at
the Industrial Exposition Building, the
stockholders of this magnificent cdifice
having consented TO let this great show
occupy it for one week. The days fes-
tivitics began with grand gratuitous
street display, which was grandeur
itself, and was witnessed by crowds of
spectators along its entire route. Last
night we found the Exposition Building
thronSed with the most brilliant and fash
ionable audience, without exception, that
we have ever seen drawn together here.
The Meiiagerie and Museum are alone
worth the price of admission. At least
/ 800 rare wild animals and remarkable
curiosities are to be seen. The various
cages and vans are admirably arranged,
and the attendants well-informed and
polite. After seeing all that was to be seen
in the Menagerie, Museum and Aquarium,
we after somo difficulty in consequence of
the immense jam, found a seat, and not
minute too soon, for the grand entree i'm
mcdately began. This was magnificent
y costumed and brilliantly executed,
and was fitting prelude to the truly
magnificent entertainment that followed!
Where all was so perfect it is hard rfgt$
tcr.to specialize any particular act ara
call it best. Every one was excellent,
while our old friend, julie Kent, as he is
called, was in his drollcst humor, and kept
the audience in the best possible spirits
The whole entertainment passed off with
the greatest eclat, and we pronounce the
Great International the largest, best and
most admirably conducted show that 1t
has ever been our lot to witness. Wefeel
somewhat proud of this, for it is, in
reality, Kentucky show; as here in this
city, at the Gait House, the idea was con-
ceived, and here, also, was the Great In
ternational equipped and prepared; so we
can safely call it a Southern Show, and,
as it is really the largest in America, this
is something to be proud Of. Every one
that we met at the Exposition Building
last night was Of our opinion. The gen
eral verdict on all sides expressed the
one idea the best Show in the world
| Louisville Courier Journal
Enough has already been said by the
press where it has been this season, TO
satisfy everybody as to the colossal pro
portions of the Great International. All
agree that it Is the ne plus ultra of enter
tainments of its class No exhibition has
excited so much remark, and none has re.
ccived the unlimited praise and the great
patronage which have at every point
been showered on the Great International
In this age, when there are so many insttu
tons of similar pretensions before the
/ public, claiming SO much, it is exceeding
ly gratifying to chronicle the presence of
! one grander, greater, and more stipend
Gus than all the rest, and such one is
this establishment. In its march South
ward it has met with little less than ar
ovation.-Neu Orleans Picayume.
It's indisputable, from the evidences
given yesterday, that the show is the
finest of the kind in the world, and thai
its projectors have originated an exhibi
ton, wonderful in its pleasant variety
and unriyaled in its Observation-Disclosures
polis fInd.) Sentinel.