The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-09-17
BARNUM IS COMING.
BARNUM's VISIT.

Banum is coming with all his attra.-
tons, and in addition to exhibitions on after
noon and evening gives free street show
in the forenoon. The attractions are more
numerous and varied than Bornum has
heretofore succeeded in bringing togather
IN one combination. The-show employees
400 hundred men and 26O horses, and is
subdivlded into departments, each having
its chief. The trip thus far has been sort
oftriumphal tour, and Barnum is headed
this way rejoicing over well filled treasury.
In Boston the show met with great success.
and the following sketch of the perform
ance there will give people some idea of
what they may expect when it comes:
The performance commenced with the
entrance of "a men and women on pailv
caparisoned horses, while the elephants.
camels, trained horses, ETC., paraded in the
outer ring. Then the living curiosities,
Capt Constentenus the tatooed Greek. Col.
Goshen, the Palestine giant; Queer .,ab,
the twelve pound midget, and two native
zulus were exhibited, the latter indulcinp
in an African stick dance and concluded by
throwing assegais at a target with great
skill. Signora Marcellus, as performer on
horseback, attracted general attention by
her leaps through hoops and balloons,
while Mr.. Orrin Hollis in his bareback acts
OF horsemanship whirled and leaped about
as gracefully as though on the ground.
Nine. Dockrill carried off the palm as a
daring rider, especially in her management
OF SIX horses, while her dives through hoops
and balloons and skipping over strips Of
bunting had a most lively effect on specta.
tors. Sig. Sebastian, however, displayed
the Growing act in riding, standing on
bareback horse with his son Louis standing
on his shoulders. He also performed MANY
other remarkable feats and left the ring
amidst applause. But in the equestrian
line nothing surpassed for beauty and
grace the performance of Miss Emma Lake
and her beautiful trained chestnut, while
Nine. Martha and Herr Neyggard in their
double act de manege dem
onstrated their complete control of
the horse with gratifying success. The Mel
'on family were one Of the best cards, the
athletic performances of the father and two
sons being unsurpassed for their kind. Then
he fire horse, Salamander, lcaped through
burning hoops, and eaping horse made
ome astonishing jumps over A gate and
everal hurdles Two Of the most pleasing
were those in which six black
|rakene stations, in charge of Mons. r. M.
)ockrlll, and the yoke of performing oxen,
charge of Mr.. Charles White, figured.
hen there was batout leaping by acrobats;
lr John Bachelors turning double SOM
ault over the backs of eight elephants.
The entertainment concluded with Zazels
erial dive and cannon act. The first was
ally as startling as the latter, her dive Of
early 100 feet head foremost into the net.
the cannon act she was projected fully
0 feet from u cannon, and landed unhurt
the net very much to the relief Of the
pectators.
Barnums Greatest Show on earth will
sit Cairo, Thursday, on September s3d.
n the day of exhibition, ladies and those
no desire to avoid the crowds at the ticket
agon, may secure tickets and reserved
ats at the usual slight advance, by apply
< at Paul q Schuh's drug store.