The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1876-08-31
A GREAT SHOW.
w. w. Coles Racing Hip
podrome, Menagerie and
Circus,

| "What has become of the circuses p"
This question has been frequently asked
of late hereabouts. Those who have been
waiting for the appearance of an exhibi-
ton of this kind, and their name is ''le-
gion, will be very glad to learn that one
is coming, and that this, the first of the
season, will be W. w.. Coles Grecian Rae
ing Hppodrome, Menagerie and Circus,
now making most successful tour through
this State. Will visit Hi1Ls6or0, Monday,
Sept, IL, 1876.
Mr.. Cole is one of the youngest mana
gers in the country, and as brilliant cam
paigner he has no superior. He is cour-
ageous and enterprising, and each succeed
ing effort Of his is vast improvement on
its predecessor. His combination this year
is simply an immense affair, constituting
an exhibition of magnitude, magnifcenee,
and variety of attraction quite without
precedent. In one show, and for one
price of admission, is given what Mr.. Cole
very properly and without e1sggeration
terms
"a TIDAL WAVE OF AMUSEMENT.
1t includes, to speak in general terms, a
hippodrome in which the ancient Grecian
races are represented with all the vividness
of reality; a double ring circus in which
the most notable achievements Of the are
ma are exhibited; collection of wild beasts
of surprising interest not only to the zoo
logical student but to every adult and
child in the land; and a pageant of na-
tions of glittering magnifcenee. For
THE HIPPoDRoME,
we may mention that no less than one
hundred thoroughbred horses are required,
and very large corps of ladies and jock
eys drive the Olympian chariots and COM
pete for prizes in hurdle races around
superb track an eighth of mile in circum-
ference. Four-horse and two-horse chari-
OTIS, Asiatic elephants, and Bactrian camels,
pony-rding monkeys, and educated dom
KEYS, all appear on the track in contests
either intensely exciting or extremely laugh
able.
THE CIRCUS
performance will introduce twenty-five of
the most daring and accomplished male and
female equestrians, two of the most enter
tanning clowns on the continent appearing
alternately in the two rings. To the circus
and the hippodrome is added Mr.. Coles
New York and New Orleans Equestrian
and Geological Exhibition, spectacular dra-
ma of the Revolution, Centennial tab
leau, representations of Revolutionary bat
tie scenes, and an exceedingly interesting
museum of Revolutionary relics.
The main tent, to be occupied by the hip
podrome and double circus, will be four
hundred feet long by two hundred feet
wide, and half a dozen other tents, each in
intself large one, will be subordinate to
this. We cannot begin to enumerate the
attractions of
THE MENAGEEIE,
but important among them are the crystal
den of performing reptiles, immense ana
condas and boa constructors, all under sub
lection to an African snake charmer and
exhibited free in the e'street procession; the
largest known elephants; a magnificent
specimen of the giraffe; the largest and
rarest specimens of Abyssinian lions; the
largest white polar bear to be seen in any
travelling show; the first and only black
leopard from Central Java exhibited in this
country; Egyptian crocodiles; Malayan
tapirs; the Senegambian zebra; the African
Gland; and multitude of other interesting
and rare specimens from every zone, alto
gether comprising magnificent collection
of the finest represe natives of the animal
creation.
THE STREET PARADE,
will include no less than seven magnificent
tableau chariots, drawn by elephants, CAM
els, horses, and Liliputian ponies; the den
of performing lions, open to public view;
the thirty dens of animals; the den of ser
pents, and other almost countless features
of display.
We have thus only endeavored to outline
Mr.. Coles great enterprise of 1876. He
has aggregated an exhibition worthy the
Centennial year, and the people will be on
the gaIi gsre for its appearance.