Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-10-28
A Snowman Who Knows his BMsi-
ness.

The following skit appears in a1ate number
of the London Era II shall have the biggest
list of genuine attractions that ever was taken
across the Atlantic. and il don't astonish the
showmen of our great country, a. well as the
people, I'm sinner. l have got baby
elephant, and genooine babulus, capchered
by Stanley in the interior of Africa ut great
loss of life. and am after a performer sich
as the world never seen. She does an act on
the trapese that is so risky that sooner or
later she must be killed There amt any
doubt about it. ! have seen her. She runs
up rope like squirrel and jumps from -
horizontal bar twenty feet, catching hold of
her pardner's hands, and then plungcs down
from his body head fust, at the frightful alti-
tude of seventy feet, catchin' a rope within
twenty feet of the ground. If the lights are
ever wrong by half inch, or il she ever
miscalculates by a hairs breadth, she is a
goner, sure" And the enthusiastic old gentle
man rubbed his hands in glee, as though the
death of a performer was consumation most
devoutly to be wished. "Do people enjoy
such perilous feats?" Enjoy 'em enjoy EN-!
Why, bless your innocent soul, a feat amt
ntohin'-won't dror a cent onless its morally
certain that the performer will break his
neck. This woman I'm after draws crowds
every night because she must kill
herself. The trick 10 so dangerous that men
make bets every night she will miss
her lucky and be carried out "A corpse.
I'm a goin' to have that woman, no matter
what the salary is. She does the trapeze act
and then goes on in the first part of the min
strel entertainment after the big show. Oh,
she's got talent into her. l run a whole sea-
son on lion that had eaten a keeper. The
people came in crowds, expecting every day
to see him make breakfast of his trainer
WAS he actually dangcrous?" Dangerous.
He ct another trainer, and then
lost him. His widder was actually in
love with her husband, and she swore the
animal shood be killed, and the pee
pie sided with her, as the boot was gettin'
old, and the KILN made a sensation, ! did il.
But made all there was out of it. I insisted
that the husband shood have a gorgeous fune-
| ral for she sed there was nothing to berry rs
the lion had eaten her husband. But amt
the dear departed in the lion? If we berry the
lion don't we berry the dear deceasedf Cert
| said. And we had it, and it was gorgeous.
We had percession with all our wagons in il,
the regeler street parade, only all our riders
had black scarfs on em and the wagons and
horses and elephant and sich were draped in
black and the band played dead march. The
wdder was IN an open carriage in full mourn
ing, with white hadkerchief with a black
border to her eyes, lookin' on his minatoor.
Their wasn't no minatoor, but she held sase
just the same. That mite the canvas co0dent
hold the people, and we run on that two
weeks to splendid biz. In two weeks the
woman got over her grief and went into the
lion trainin' herself, ez 'Senorita guardente.
the Lion Queen ] give her some old lions
to practis on, and in less than month she
Good do jist as well as the old man. She was
good woman, too. She rid in the grand
entree, and rid in The Halt in the Desert
did the bar'l act, rid a good pad act and is
now practsf bareback. She juggles tollablc
and does a society sketch song and dance in
a side show. When get talent pay it and
keep it. MY treasurer changes the names Of
my people every season, so as to have fresh
attractions. Oh, know my biz