Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-06-12
FOrep0ugh's Shoe.

Adam Forepaugh's great show will exhibit
in this city on the I'd of July. An interesting
and unique feature of Mr.. Forepaugh's show
| is that it has never changed hands. To form
it and to assemble under one tent all It's varied
attractions dozen ordinary shows would be
required. 1t Illustrates the Survival of the
! fttest," for there is not a show before the
public to-day that was before the public when
Mr.. Forepaugh started his show twenty years
| ago.
| A leading feature of the exhibition is the
| twenty trained elephants, greater number OF
| these animals than was ever got together being
being exhibited, and showing in most marked
degree the wonderful intelligence of this
| largest among beasts. Another great feature
| is the Selbini and Wilton European troupe of
bicycle riders, and still another which will at.
| tract general attention and admiration is the
| twenty-five trained stations. Mile. Ella Zuila,
the erial queen, will ride her velocipede
| over 4 inch wire 100 feet in mid-air This
| lady has been called the "Female Blondin" and
| certainly if the skill and fearlessness on the
| tight-rope she displays be considered the ap-
pellation is more than deserved. In her great
| and thrilling bicycle feat she rides backward
and forward over high wire, one hundred
| feet above the heads of the spectators, in a
perfectly easy and graceful position,
! and with as much speed and precision as
the bicycilist ordinarily displays on the
smooth floor or asphalt pavement. Moreover,
erses the same with her feet encased in bask-
cts; walks the wire with iron rods attached to
her feet, then with her head and body envel-
oped in sack, and, finally. bearing her hus-
band on her shoulders. There are feats per-
| formed on the wire by this daring and youth
| full French woman which seem almost
incredible. A splendid specimen of COM
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affol ded also in the performances of the Selbini
and Wilton bicyclers, male and female, who
exhibit on these machines all the agile and
dexterous feats of strength usually attempted
by acrobats in the arena. In the way of a
remarkably daring exhibition of human endur-
ance we have George Loyal, the human cannon
ball, who permits himself to be shot from a
monster cannon, loaded with powder, and
is caught by lady hanging head down
ward from the dome of the canvas, at a
distance of fifty feet from the enormous
mortar from which he has been dis
charged.
Space lacks to do entire justice to the
manifold attractions included in the list
of riders, acrobats, trappeze performers
and gymnasts and testers, which are COM
priseo in this immense show. We may
mention en- PEASANT, however, Rosina Dubsky,
the Polish eQuestrienne from the Imperial
circus of Warsaw, who will introduce her
Polish and Hungarian trained thor
oughbred horses in series of bold and
original performances, Miss Jennie Ew-
ers, the female fire rider, Mr.. Joseph
Ashby, the champion equestrian of
England, Mr.. Samuel Watson another famous
European rider, Mr. Charles Ewers, known as
the champion hurdle rider of the profession,
Miss Lottie Wambold, the accomplished eques-
trienne and daring mid-air trapezist: Mile.
Victoria rnld-air eOuil,Ihrist AS TO the HUI
morous and versatile troupe of clowns, harle-
quins, pantomimists and buffoons, may be
said of them that they provide for the enter
tanment of the public veritable carnival of
fun. These rare testers are headed by Mr..
William E. Burke, aided by the gymnastic
humorist, Mr.. Charles Seeley, and the prince of
punsters, Mr.. John s. Robinson.