New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-08-14

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| THE SUMMER SHOWS.
These are great days for the juvenile popu-
Iation Of the United States, for they are the
| days Of the mcandering mcnagciics and cir
cusrs. The walls are glorious with the pris-
matte posters the newspapers abandon WHOLE
pages to the preliminary advertisements, and
! the grand entries of the gorgeous, magnificent,
UNPRECEDENTED and unsurpassed establishments
make a supplementary Fourth of July III every
village. This 10 a world of disappointment
no mans fortune EQUALS his dreams, and no
c,cns comes up to the respondent promises OF
| is hroldsidcs TIL. managers understand the
use of language. d" liippoGIonc" carries more
weight than simple Circus; >" Geological and
Equestrian Exposition is more impressive
than Mcnagcric." The lad, anticipate some
thing pretty loud when they are informed that
the Band will enter in a Monster Music Car; y
that the ladies and gentlemen of the company
will ride upon Priceless Stceds y Monster
of the Forest" sounds better than mere
Lion :" but when it comes to " the Partisan
Steam Calopc. emitting the most ravisling
"mclody, which can he heard for miles," the
whole ncghborlIood talks of nothing else for
weeks and impaiicnily awaits the coming of
the bowling, screcching, yelling, ilzzing and
wliAng invention
| How the young ones stare at the pictures on
| the fencc There are the sights which lend to
| the show " hlagniudc Originality, Merit,
Strength Splcndor. and Universal Popularity
and Success" There the Daniel of the con-
Germ wrestles with the Lions there Mdlle.
Calfnshi. in very short peticoat with the star
slaugled banner borne aloft. trcads the tight
rope there the most iustrious OF bare backed
performers takes a ride curlcd up head to
heels, and about three feet above the flying
secd there Sig. Aaron looks intcntly but
dauntlessly down the throat of the smiling
crocodile there the serpent gldcs through his
native Jungle and the walrls reposcs at the
foot of the towering iceberg. All is cnchant-
mcni There il Madame Atalie, the Female
Samson, fooling with the cannon-bas
there the wild Indians pitch their tents or
scalp their opponents there Roman matrons
run races in Grecian chariOs with Yankee
horses and there. in short, all sorts of things,
conceivable and incOncciyable, are going on,
and round and up and down under the Cor
| geoas Eight Ccnter-POie Pavilion! There is
nothing cheap common about the Show. 1t
has Fifty High Salaried Sensational Per-
| " formers" Ii has "the Only Female Bare
"backcd Sunmcisaut Rider on the Face of
"the Globe" and the manager. who has more
money than he knows what to do with, cheer
fully offers $4,000 to anybody who can pro-
ducc her equal either in agility or barebackcd-
ness gcnerally-"a broad assertion" he
adds, " but nevertheless true" 1t has the
Giant Ostrich. Ii has the Masodon kanga-
roo Ii has Eleven Baby Lions! 1t has the
Monster HOeapotiamus who will eat green
applcs and gingerbread with the clown. 1t
has Mast Clementine, "thc only juvenile AMI
NAL performer in the world,' and il has
the Egyptian Crocodile thirty feet long,
and "capablc of swallowing n Human
being with the utmost ease," ex-
cept 10 the Being swallowed! 1t has
the Nyighau and the Cabra Bara (amphibious)
and the OK Nunda (sacrcdD and the Chamot
and the Bari, and the Addox and the Monitor
and finally it has Herr Darius, the world
:. famed animal trainer who so narrowly escaped
"a horrible death while engaged in subduing
"a pair of Asaiic Lions and Bengal Tigers
"but now he rides in an open den surrounded
"by these sanguinary monsters, their limbs
unshackled and free" The creatures, 40
doubt cast hungry eyes upon " the children of
"Orphan Asylums who are admitted without
"charge,r but they must be contented with a
smell of the little dears-IIcir Darius will see
to it that they do not bite single orphan.
The poor lad who crwls YEARLY to bed
after his visit to the Geological and Equestrian
Exposition and IIippodramatical Arena, cannot
conceal from himself that the show hardly
came up to the promise of the bills. 1t was
good and grand and startling, but it wasn't
quite so terrific as it appeared on the fence.
When he saw the Tanner depicted there Waiting
with the Bengal Tigress, the boy thought that
it couldn't be done with safety, and that the
Lady of the Junges would certainly massacre
the Herr Darius and when she didn't do it,
when it was apparent that she was very much
afraid of the Herr and that he didn't care a
cent for her snarlng, somehow the interest OF
the scene grew less to the youthful mind
The Lad has taken his first lesson in philoso-
ply which he will better comprehend as he
grows older but even now he has glimpses
of the truth that no show is equal to It's ad-
| vertisement.
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The nows-g atherer of Fort Wayne newspaper