Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-06-22
NOTES AND QUERIES.
CIRCUS DAY.
JUNE 70, 1877

CIRCUS DAY.
We who dwell in cities and towns an
Ike ccntraIizing settlements are doubl
blessed and doubly visited when circus-da
Gomez. First comes ircus-day, then com
the people who want to see the circus, an
then come the circus people who want t
have the circus seer. These bring fish to GU
net-the net which we of the city spread 70
those who are swimming in the currents tina
ike us best and are nearest to our likes AM
Drofts. Yesterday was circus day. Tn
farm people from far and near, and they VIII
dwell in the less accessible settlements hart
by, came III in great numbers.
"There were the old whose hairs are few,
Or white with the memory of the day
When first they the tall Emu
And heard the wild ass bray his bray;
There were the proud who court renown;
There were bright ringets richly curlet;
There were the boys who think the clown
The funniest man in all this world
There we're the girls who always think
That nothIng's ever half so nice
AS lemonades that lovers drink
Quite innocent OF "sticks" or ice
Served to them both in Just glass
And sucked through one conductive straw
Obvious to the world who pass
And laugh, as bright folks laugh at raw;
There were the boys who would not fail
Ii this wide world should crack asunder,
To take all chances that avail
To crawl the tempting canvas under;
There we're the blacks there the whites,
There were the rustics red and brown,
There the usual rows and fights
There were the lads who'd walked TO town;
There were the mothers and the dads
VINO lugged the babies in their arms;
There were the good ones and the hads,
And men from barrooms and from farms;
And when the pageant all WAS DER
And lids had shut tired eyes,
And there was nothing, nothing more
TO justify ones wild surprise
We thanked the gods that at last
The crcus-tima, so strange and queer,
W9s finished ended, done and past,
For whole blessed blissful year.
Upon our sacred word, we did not mean to!
Al this has oozed out of a vagabond Muse like
music out of an unthrottled steam caliope,
left to its own unchecked vagrancies. We
sat down to do some honest putting of this
circus. 1t is worth it; for it is a supremacy
good show for these far mountain parts. The
menagere is excellent-all it is advertised to
be-so far as specialties are concerned. We
have all along been assuring our readers that
the wo-holned rhinoceros was a fact And
it is fact. He Is a very perfect specimen,
very singular and interesting creature His
head is shaped like Mansard roof covered
with asphaltum His front tooth seems to
have grown up through his nose, and his
wisdom tooth has come out through his eye
brow His eye is located in his upper lip.
lie seems to be cross between a deformed
elephant and the debris of an old India-rub
Der over-shoe mandatory. He looks as if
he knew just about enough to write editorials
for weekly paper in the country, refuting
Bob Ingersoll. If his ancestors were with
Noah IN the ark, that early navigator must
have consigned him to the steerage-or else
il was just an emigrant ship where they
made no pretence Of tone, style or anything !
irst-class in the passenger carrying way. |
There is the hogapotamus, very singular
animal; a noble specimen of the Royal Tiger;
come lovely Gazelles, and the only Gnu, or
horned horse we have ever seen here. a
Grace Of hall grown lions, male and female,
yorn in San Francisco, are very fine. The
,ircus is cxcellent-as all Mr.. Cookies Sc
ections always are. (This is Mr. Cooke who
vas at one time associated with Wilson and
Zoyara. The trapeze act is superb. The
ady performer surpasses anything we have
yer seen. The tumbEng-the real charm to
Il discriminating circus goers-is frst-rate.
yoodie Cooks, riding is excellent. His
aulting is wonderfully good-almost une-
ualled Mr.. E. D. Colvin, the very capable
Ianager, is, as we need hardly say to our {
rethren of the press, one of the best and
lost oblging showmen living. In short
1ontgomery Queen still holds his mastery as
BOB INGERSOLL AGAIN.
1t affords us very great pleasure to an Y
ounce that Bob Ingersoll will lecture here y
II second time on Saturday night. He !
i'll give us an opportunity to hear his dis a
purse ON " Ghosts." The announcement is f
nough to ill the Theater. We heartily b
our friends on this second =
nance to hear that gifted talker. +
Up AT THE LAKE o
We learn that the Company's saw mill
'oke saw and shaft Notwithstanding