The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-08-13
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Trained Beasts In P%FoTuHlon.
In an elaborate and unquali6edly eulo.
CYSTIC notice OF this %stupendous consolida.
ton, which Is to exhibit in this city on
Wednesday, August Il, the New York Sun
Of March 20 says:
The hrBt performance Of Mr.. Barnum's
show this season was given at the Madi.
son Square Garden last evening. There
were three rings In a row, and at eight
o'clock the beats, stretching from the
point making the inner edge Of the old
pedestrian track up to the caves OF the
great building on oil sides, with black and
gorgeous respectively with male and fe.
ma 0 speCLstn,B Ths place were Ia q glare
from o score OF more Of electric lights,
A the hUl 7 named O bur N.of music iBsu
ing from numerous brass instruments
allsd the building, and q csvalcade entered
he tripleRateha from four points through
gateways under the lofty benches. The
whole company vas mounted on steeds
which msgni6cently cayorted. How many
there were nobody could tell, but there
were enough to all the great Enclosure
with a delicious glitter oil ~spangles, which
was broken here and there BY the sombfe
expAnBe Of IN elephant or q camel. Al
one moment there were 0 score or more
Of elephants pAradlng Ia 0 row, and the
next moment there was nothing but 4
broad simmer OF gold and silver apparel
SpriDkled with elephants Ia q hardly mo-.
ticeAble degree.
When the civalcade had become alb.
sorbed once more under The benches GER.
efal and Mrs. Tom Thumb drove up In
their carriage and descended Upon The
blue and red carpet In the central ring,
and Chang, the Chinese giant, one Of
whose shoes would have furnished roomy
lodging for the General, sauutefed into
near proximity to the little pair. Tbs
colossus and the pignies had barely
departed when the Enclosure was filled
with the comprehensive tame animAls oil
the show. Elephants, horses, canels and
oxen mingled In seeming confusion for a
lew moments, until one Of the steers die.
charged q pistol, which had been conven.
ienlly attached 10 q stake, and the cattle
were replaced by.a troop al spanpied
gymhasts, including q clown Ia bSpVy
trousers, who, atlef q period Of CLUMSY
deception, ouidid all the rest,
After that A man got up Oh d pile Of moro
chairs more precatiously. placed than ahy
other man could do; d beautiful woman,
who looked az II che had been melted And
poured into q pair Of green bilk tipbts,
made herself quite at home on a elAck
rope; a man with a dull and io%nRsuifef.
air IVES whopped about by everybody,
and g%rotesquely and frequently buried 70
sawdust a woman, with an iron law, hung
10 q block and tackle with her teeth, ard
was drawn up TO the roof, Japanese jup.
glefs permitted base. balls 10 rebound ii an
apparently painful manner from their
.ct0ynsj little elephants, the size
nf hogsheads, stood Ia The most amaSibR
and aide splitting fashion upon their
heads, and looked ashamed Of themselves
liketwArd; large elephants drilled like
band, constructed LhemselVesihto A
nsmmoth pyiamldi ladies smiling, 1.-THE
,ui al Aptly, neW Upon The tfapeSe and
ode. atnii 4 general bSeAth.holdihR, upon 1
nedled chargers 10 did less i~nteiestihp
nen-Ahd ali The leapefs and tumblef6, a.
Ast Jumped over all the horses and oil tie
llephanis, and, amid tbundefb oiApplGu6e,
loeed the show