, 1876-07-17
ALL FOB TEN CENTS,
A Crude Specimen OF tho Chatham Street
Side Show.

A Crude Specimen OF tho Chatham Street
Side Show.
On the northwest corner OF Dearborn and
Randolph streets, IN @ vacant lot, stands 4 tent,
decorated With the most remarkable specimens
Of the painters art. Tho tent itsclfs not largc,
but Its surroundings, tho indscca to tic cou-
tents, arc fearful and wonderful. Thu mlracu-
lous creatures, In very rcd paint, are described
by the legend below to bo the Aztec children,
the 1ast OF tlclr race, while close beside them Ia
figure Of mummy, who, II she ever walked in
ancient Thcbcs, must have carried newspaper
route. 1ndians como next, sbold, bad Indians,
with large legs ard q suspicion Of uakedncss.
Most Of tho 1ndlnns arc engaged In tho harmless,
which may ho the poetic and proyrrhial herbs Or
roots, but which looks good dcal like pIe, and
ono gifted With prodlglous nose, y snufllng an
imaginary battls from patcl Of WOODS
sGn'''4s en Hsootser &c 'ss sith ''es' sS spa ,nat
buttons up in tho back lprobably trophy from
tho bloody corpse Of m English toutlst. Is sharp
| cnlnE green to,nahnwk On u blue stump, pre-
paratory to bury!ug 1t fn tho llcai Ut u pieTecr
IN a swsllow.tailed coat md white neck-tic,
In tho foreground atll another fedskla IL tear
| Ing tho halF from the head uf Il wonanj whose
long body and short legs aru half buried 10 four
ilIuatsatcs tho beauties Of naturo q exempl[tied
through the humble !nstrun,rntality OF o boa
| ceuatfictor, winding his slow lcugth around Il
tree mud larting his fungs nt tile passcr-by. H.
lllstrattons Of thu Darwinian theory conl0 next
| In the shape Of seycrM monkeys, who arp up
parcntly introducing the galnu Ut baseball Into
the jungle8 Of Africa, uang tic primitive cueoa-
nut fur the ball, aud tho red branch Of ayclloW
tree for but.
But the attraction OF the whole Is non-
dcscrlpt who 4tands ut tho door, and whu has
BY aosilo occult means acquired . smatteEing OF
tic Euglsh language d It would be II III puuct.
uatlou had ever been introduced.
"'EEe Yer fayc tlc most wonderful exhibition
Of natural wuullcts and distorted humanity ever
known u tte So fur explored world which Es tho
Aztec children nuyer before seea on tho shores
OF civilization and preserved ut enoTtHous ex-
penaD fur this show mt tho bon constrtetur
which III themselves Is sclaDnl seen out of tho
cIa9s Of lia native l!omo and the baboon that
snatchcy from its heights tho coeoanut whielihe
throWs. ut tho missionary and thu mummy
bora and hurled before thu world was dis
eoycrcl for unly tan cents walk right up mud
,1Ay your money and sec the genuine Indian
Liking to ills forest with tho sealps Of Ills foes
hu 9g On Ills belt aud all tic beauties VI dis
coytTed nature tor only ten ccnts 'ool 'aye
another sold aEnln to see the greatest wonders
ever exhibited OH the American continent which
Il tue Mormon dwarf only W inches high snd all
Tor ten cents walk right ~ ladies' aud gentle
meu for f4erc VIC have tho boa constructor of the
Andes that catches his prvy saa Swallows hlm
for ten eents.'
A TnlBpNE reporter, contemplating tho pic
turcs, aud feeling interested III tho possibilities
OF the jutar1yr Ut tho tent, clippe1 ln dl1nt,
and passed tbs wicket. Az he entrsel the eau
VA Ii was manifest thAt the beat part Of tie
shvw Hss in tho pittu5ra outside. Two yery or.