American citizen., 1881-10-22
streets of Yokohama. This programme
was thus worded in English:

| HONORABI.F WILLIAM BATULCAR.
LAST REPRESENTATIONS,
BEFORE THEIR DEPARTURE FOR THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
FTHE
LONG NOSES! LONG NoSESl
| GoD TINGOUi
GREAT ATTRACTION
1.-The United States of America,
cried Passepartout, that's just what
wantr'
He followed the man with his pla
card, and thus soon re-entered the jap
anese quarter. A quarter of an hou
later, he stopped before large hous
surrounded by clusters of streamers
and whose exterior walls represented
without perspective, but in violent col
ors, a whole company of jugglers.
1t was the Honorable Batulcar's cs
tablishment, who was a sort of Ameri
can Barnum, director of a troupe o
mountebanks. jugglers, clowns, aero
bats. equilibrists. gymnasts, which, ac
cording to the piacard, was giving it.
last performance before leaving thu
Empire of the Sun for the States OF tn.
Union.
Passepartout entered under the porot
in front of the house, and asked for Mr.
Batulcar. He appeared in person.
What do you wish?" he said to Pas
separtout, taking him at first for ma
tive.
"Do you need a servantP' asked
Passcpartout.
| "A servant" cried the Barnum.
stroking his thick, gray beard hanging
| heavily under his chin. q have two,
obedient and faithful, who have never
left me. and who serve me for nothing.
on condition that l feed them. And
here they are," he added. showing his
two ro bust arms, furrowed with veins
as large as the strings of abass viol.
81" So 1 can be of nogood to yeup''
None"
"The deuce! 1t would have suited
me so well to leave with you"
"Ah. 1 see"' said the Honorable
Batulcar. "You are as much a jap
anesc as am monkey! Why are you
dressed in this wayP' r~rt. -
Zone dresses as one can"
Very true. You are a French
man?"
"Yes. a.Parisian from Paris"
"Then you ought to know how to
make grimaces?"
Indeed.'' replied .Passepartout.
vexed at seeing his nationality call
forth this question, 1--WE Frenchmen
know how to make grimaces. it is true,
"Just SO. Well il do not take you
as servant can take you as a clown.
You understand. my good fellow. In
Franco they exhibit foreign clowns, and
abroad. French clowns"
..Ahr' --rt --
''You are strong, are you not?''
Particularly when have been at
the table"
land you know how to singP"
YES" replied Passepartout, who
had formerly taken part in street con-
certs.
"But do you know how to sing on
your head. with top spinning on the
sole OF your left foot, and a saber bal
anced on the sole of your right?"
Parbleup' replied Passepartout,
who recalled the first exercises of his
youth.
"Then; You see all is rightr' replied
the Honorable Batulcar.
The engagement was concluded
there and then.
At last Passepartout had found a
position. He was engaged to do every
thing in the celebrated Japanese
troupe. 1t was not very flattering. but
within a week he would be on his way
to San Francisco.
The performance, SO noisily announced
by the Honorable Batulcar, was to COM
mence at three O'Clock, and soon the
instruments of Japanese
orchestra. drums and tam tams, sound
ed at the door. We understand very
well that Passepartout could not have
studied a part, but he was to give the
support of his solid shoulders in the
grand feat of the "human pyramid"
executed by the Long Noses Of the god
Tingou. This attraction of the per-
formance was to close the series.
Before three. o'clock the spectators
had crowded the large building. Euro
peans and natives. Chinese and Japa-
nese, men, women and children, rushed |
upon the narrow benches, and into the |
boxes opposite the stage. The musi- |
clans had entered, and the full orches-
ira, with gongs, tam-tams, bones, flutes, |
and large drums went to |
work furiously.
The performance was what all these |
acrobatic exhibitions are. But it must |
be confessed that the Japanese are the
best requilibrists in the world. One,
with his fan. and small bits of paper,
the graceful trick of the but
,erfiies and Howers Another, with the
odorous smoke of his pipe, traced rap
dly in the air series of blush words,
which formed compliment addressed
10 the audience. The latter Juggled
With lit candles, which he blew out in
'uocession as they passed before his
ips, and which he lit again, one after
he other, without interrupting, for
Jingle moment, his wonderful jugglery.
The former produced, by means of
pinning tops, the most improbable
Under his hand these
iumming machines seemed to be gifted
With life of their own in .heir inter-
whirling; they ran over pipe
TENS, over the edges of sabers, over
wires as thin as hair, stretched from one
ide of the stage to the other; they went
ound large glass vases, they went up
nd down bamboo ladders, and scat
cred into all the corners, and produced
effects of a strange character
y combining their various tones. The
ugglers tossed them up, and they
urned in the air;f they threw them like
with wooden battledores,
nd they kept on turning; they thrust
hem into their pockets, and when they
ing-until the moment when a relaxed
pring made them bud out into Chi
ese treeI E. |,
1t is useless to describe here the
feats of the acrobats and [
ymnasts of the troupe. The turning
n ladders, poles, balls. barrels, etc, (
'as executed with remarkable precis-
IN. But the principal attraction of the ;
erfOrmance was the exhibition of the I
ong Noses. astonishing equilibrists, !
18th whom Europe is not yet acquainted.
These Long Noses form a special /
ompany placed under the direct pa s