Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-02-10
AL0Nz0 WARD.
Preparing to Sweep the Country with His
Moral Circus and Church Choir
Minstrels.
The Veteran Snowman Visits Nile.
Sara Bernhardt and the
Monster Whale
lspeshiiy writ 10 Tar GnANr Go. HrRA1D.

Monster Whale
lspeshily Writ to The GRANT Co. HERALD
CHIeAGo Staff of Illinoy,
JAN 81. Anna Domino 1881 (
Mr.. HERALD Since arrove in town
with my selerbrated troop of wild beests
and CRATE moral sirkus | have bin very
bizzy a organizin for the comm cam
pain.
John Jetiery is sculpin my hand bills
in gorgeous stile. The Hell Bender and
Kangaroo sot for their likeness to-day
and the pesky critters look lovely and
inersent. Their tiggers is being carved
onto board and their shadders forth
with struck off in all the kolors of the
rainbeaux.
Jetfery says l have struck . banna-
ma and win have the show bizness all
to myself next season, bekaus since
Barnum joined the Demilrats and
forged letters on Chinaman no decent
Abolishinist would look at his show, and
konsekently they would all wait for my
Crate Aggravation.
The Palmer House being full, am
stoppin transhently at tavern on Ca
nal street called the Salers House. re-
markt iokinly to the landlord that his
hotel smelt like tar boardin house. He
hawtily replied that it wasn't the salers,
but was some fellers in the back yard
putin new roof on the house.
As soon as possible ! will send YOU
colleckshun of my show bills, includin
kromo of my new wrinkle-bein my
troop of Church Choir Niger Ministries,
shown A. Ward seated in the groop a
playin onto banjo.
Chicago is never satisfied unless she
has the biggest things a-going. Since the
night old COW kicked over kerosene
lamp and sent the lamp and town to
blazes, things got 80 all-iired red-hot
here they haven cooled of vet
The perticklcr big things which is set
tin the town agog this week is the mon
ster whale and
SARA BERNHARDT,
Little Sally is drawing big crowds at
Mike Vickers show house. The crate
expense of emigranting this French
troop to Amerika has forced the mani
ger TO charge SO for a ticket. One box
sold for $500 for two weeks.
Sarah has scooped in $3.50, 900 doorin
sixty-tive shows since she crossed the
rollin billers of the sad sea waves.
Sadie is making good wages consider
il her work is all play.
was in the aujience the openin night,
when the tragick French mellowdramv
of "Adriennc Lecouyreur' was pro-
iooced Mademoiselle Sara asoomin the
title roll.
Ada is a actress in Paris who falls in
TO love with solier who is really dis
gized Captain General tryin to raise
militia company to lick some naberin
potato and get his thrown. A married
Princess is also mashed ON the solier,
and here the green-eyed gazelle steps
in and makes a pile of trubhle The
Princess gifts mad and buys up the sol
ier's tailor bills, liabilities for drinks, ct
set, amountin to 1000 franks and has
him sent to Jail just as he was startin
for the war. Ada soaks her sparks
(dimunds) at the pawnbrokers but is
still 10000 franks short. A dizzy acter
in the troop who is gone on Ada lends
her the bagatelle (his unkle had kindly
died) and the soljer is free The Prin-
cess then pizens nosegay and sends it
to Ada, and the poor little gal dies in
the soliers arms just as everything
looked so happy for the future.
This troop is new French fashion
and artistick success, but it is strange
why people will pay 50 and listen to
lot of jibber jabber they can't under
stand. The acters all spoke in French
and jawed around like lot of heathens
from the Hottentot Islands
1t was amooZin to see how French
gals make love to their fellers. Sally
would stand off at arms length, ketch
the Teller by the collar and flop her
head onto his vest pattern without chang
in the posishun of her feet-showin her
inclined his way about as degrees worth.
But give me the little American gal,
who will snuggle up to feliel rap her
arms around him and make him feel
like a galvanick battery has got holt of
him and he cam let 90.
Sally also has side show in town a
exhibition of her paintings, statoots, &
so 4th. Both as artist and actress she
draws well.
Between the last acts Manager Abbey
came to my seat in the parkay and
greeted me corjelly. He said while
countin the tickets he found the card of
A. Ward, Snowman, among the ded-
beds and he had looked me up to inter-
docs me to the divine Sara.
The maniger interdoosed me as one
of the perfesh,' veteran knight of
the socks and buckskins and now in the
sawdust arena, and tellin her how hit
the publick p!ayin tragedy with the
Count Joannes and galvanized New
York playin Roaring Ralph stackpole,
in the Jibbenainesy.
She said something in French that
sounded like Barn-door, mv-shoe.
Bolivoo Frenchy.' | kcrrected hcr per-
liteiy and said my name was Ward, not
Bolivar. Sally can't talk United Stats,
but through our interpreter we had a
nice chat on the sofa She and her
purity sister Janey promised to call and
see my wild bcests, and then, as the
call-boy came rushin in forMademoiselle,
she kissed her hand an revoy and flew
to the wings, and / meandered back to
my seat.
Some sneakin hyenas have been
snarlin and ieering at this brave little
girl for takin only one false step. These
snaix are broots double-dyed and would
corrupt the morris of the beests in nv
show if they could crawl under the tent
unperseeyed.
Sara is the greatest actress of the age.
painter and sculptor of acknowledged
ability. and certainly deserves the char
ity of the human family in not commit
ting crime to conceal the one mistake
of her life.
Let us ring down the curtain. Long
may she wave.
THE WHALE.
This beest of the sea was shot bv
some pirates on the coast of Moo Foun-
land while he was in swimmin with his
family, and his cold corps is now laid
out in the Expersishin Bildin.
| took my boy Bob along with me to
give him lesson in Material Histry. Bob
IS the cheeild of my adoption. i first
sot eyes on him seyril years ago when |
was manigin side show through Mis-
souri, and he was jusf disappearin nnder
the tent. / got him, but the little ras-
kal was so hansum and sharp lookin
passed him in free. He said he never
had no father or mother and was maxim
q Twin hlackin boots. He was l;ttla