Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1875-09-17

brllllant campaign throughout the Cam
adas.
1t as been in this State nearly three
weeks. 1t travels Independent of rail-
roads and visits many towns where a
show of its magnitude never has been
seen-this it is obliged to do-for unlike
all other tented exhibitions, of the pres
ent day, it is all on wheels, and does not
skip over the country, with ten or a doz-
en- freight cars, selecting the most pop
ulous towns and cities, enveloping the
place in flaming hand bills, and in forty
eight hours, remove itself five hundred
miles away from the town where it last
exhibited. 1t is great overland com
biuation, requiring a working force of
1000 MEN AND HORSES
and cannot travel more than twenty-five
miles daily. Hence our entire popula-
ton will have an opportunity of visiting
this most merritorious exhibition
During the time it has been in this
State, all the papers in every place where
it has exhibited, speak of it in the most
culogistic manner From all sources,
we hear that it " is the first tented exhi-
bition that ever was brought into Yer
mont and completely filled its bills" All
can see it, as it goes marching over the
country, with its elephants, camels, cages
and immense paraphranalia, and Fore
paugh says, if any one, after looking at
his great show, as it moves over the
roads or enters town, does not think he
has an exhibition worth coming to see,
he won't ask them to patronize him. In
proof of what Mr.. Forepaugh claims for
his combination, read the following from
the st. Adams Messenger of a recent
date:
EoREPAUGH's PEERLESS EXHIBITION -
WONDERS OF THE ANIMAL KINGDOM
THE MUSEUM AND THE CIRCUS.
The most charming chapter in Victor
HugO's last book is that in which he de-
scribes the three little children watching
a woodlouse, the swallows and bee. 1t
illustrates the intense delight infancy has
in learning more of animal nature. The
child, in witnessing new and rare animal
forms, has his sense of wonder excited.
his mind expanded his knowledge en-
larged, and his little heart filled with 10Y.
MANY THOUSAND CHILDREN
were yesterday made very happy by the
sight of the beautiful horses, the cum
ming little ponies, the elephants, drome-
diaries, tigers and lions of the great Fore
paugh menagerie as it went in process
ion through the principal streets of the
city. That gave only brief views of
few of the animals that many children
will get no further sight. How intense
will be the pleasure of those who have
an opportunity to see the tigers bound
ing in their cages, to view the
MAGNIFICENT GIRAFFE.
to hear the lions roar, to watch the an
tics of the monkeys, and to look up at
the stately elephant as it strides around
the great arena This show has no ri
val, and affords as good an opportunity
for the study Of natural history as any
geological garden in the world True,
its animals are not arranged in groups
and classes, since this with vast trav.
cling menagerie is not feasible, but it
comprises over
TwENTY-THREE HUNDRED BIRDS AND
BEASTS AND REpTILEs,
who represent all the great classes of
animal life. There is not a real bird or
beast mentioned in the Bible, that has
not its representation in the show, except.
perhaps, the old dragon. Some idea of
the immensely of the collection NAV be
had from the fact that Mr.. Forepauch
has lost over 100000 by the death of
animals whose places had to be supplied
to make the exhibition complete. Ger
tainly this great show is as
MORAL, AS INSTRUCTIVE, AS DELIGHT
Full,
and as heightened as theatrical exbibi-
tions, where comfortable seat costs a
dollar, yet the admission to this grand
combination of menagerie, museum and
arena, whose canvas covers four acres, is
only fifty cents. In the whole show
there is not the slightest feature that
should offend the strictest sense of pro-
priety. 1t is strange, grand, curious and
IN some respects very funny, but there
is nothing that can harm the morals of
children or shock the modesty of any
one. True, there are fifty men and wom-
en- who exhibit daring horsemanship.
great athletic power, wonderful agility
and astounding feats of balancing and
tricks that can only come from long
practice, but there is really no more
harm in seeing man turn summersault
than in seeing Polar bear tumble
around in Its cage; no more sin in a
clown doing funny things than in mon.
key playing funny tricks, or one of the
magnificent macaws giving very funny
advice to the young people who stop to
admire her plumage. 1t has been the
object of Mr.. Forepaugh to make his
show the
MOST COMPLETE IN THE WORLD.
and at the same time to make il unex.
eeptionable in its tone. Ii comprises
over thousand curious things in the
museum department alone; among them
are statuary representations of notable
people, geological specimens. and other
objects well worth seeing. That the ex-