Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-08-02
AT THE CIRCUS.
Avery Good Museum, Menagerie and Ring
Peformance-Where Was the Sl0,-
900 Beauty and the Woman
Fired From a Cannon

Yesterday was circus day and ii rained
Rain does not interfere with circus a
all, but it does sadly with the people VIII
come to see it. Circus people are accus
toned to rain, and as it only saves them
work, they don't mind it. A good healthy
rain puts a stop to the grand street pag
can't" which disappoints the small boy
and gives the van drivers rest, but doe
not interfere with the performance. Yes
terday was good old rainy day from Day
vile, but just as many people attended
Forepaugh's circus as though bright sur
had been shining. The streets OF the city
were crowded early in the morning, thu
hotel.hnd restaurants drove thriving trade
and when the immense throng took its way
to the old fair ground, REGISTER reporter
helped swell the number.
The peanut and lemonade vendors were
as plentiful and noisy as usual, and the
ground bore such resemblance 10 an ould
Ireland bog as must have made many an
Emerald Islander homesick. And such 9
crush and jam was not seen since the time
of the deluge. 1t took a half hours fight
to get in the main entrance, and when
once inside our young man had on him
enough real estate to satisfactorily answer
the conundrum President Scott puts at the
surety on a liquor license bond. Corraling
a reserved seat and looking about him, the
journalist took in the entire show, and de-
scribed il in the tlowry language OF man
moth blue and red poster.
THE CTpCT-S
The Colossal Circus is presented in two
vast rings. A special feature of this truly
great show is the wonderful herd of q
trained elephants who appear in the grand
street pageant, and in the two great rings,
in a series of astonishing performances.
Sig. Leonati, the celebrated spiral bicycle
ascensionist, has been brought to this
country by Manager Forepaugh, and daily
performs his great act of ascending and de-
scending spiral roadway sixty feet in
height.
In the line of new equestrian specialties,
the veteran Manager has engaged all the
frst-class talent in Europe. Among the
female famous foreign riders are Louiza
REM, Lizzie Deacon, and several others OF
European fame and included in the list of
male performers are the ever-welcome Her
bert Brothers, the great Silton Troupe,
from Paris. and clowns and Humorists from
England, Ireland, Germany, France and
America, and Messrs. Samuel Watson, a
leading English rider, John Purvis. the
clown who introduces his talking Donkeys;
and the Lloyd family, OF musical and aero
batic clowns, from London, and Prince Sor-
bro, from the,Court of the Mikado Of Japan.
a wizard performer of wonderful SKILL and
Mile. Victoria. we'll known trapeze artist,
and the Dorr family of equestrians from
London.
THE MANoTH MENAGERIE
contains now, as in the past, about every
animal that flies, Swims, CreepS or crawls.
A special feature of this immense collec-
ton is the great herd of q elephants,
valued at 100000, and veritable parti-
colored Tapir, one-half its surface being
snow white, the other black, and agenuine
Guinea Ant Bear, the first ever brought to
and pair of monster Rhinoceri
one of the single and one of the double
horned species, and the most magnificent
and largest collection OF lions, leopards,
tigers, bears and wild beasts and rare birds
Of every name and nature ever exhibited in
the New World.
In the great circus in two rings appear
all the famous circus celebrities of Europe,
prominent among whom, in addition
10 those heretofore men toned
are to be seen Messrs. Watson,
Pervis, Barry and Mccarthy. from the lead
ng circuSes of England and Ireland, and
the well known American artists, the Her
bert Brothers and Messrs. Worland, Cooke,
Castle, Leandro, Munson, Geyer, and many
others, all occupying the front rank in the
,irCus world.
THE MUSEUM
s replete with living human curioSities
md mechanical wonders. Not the least
ImOng the attractions of this department
S the first time appearance in this country
# the famous yorkshire giants" Harry
Alexander and his wife, whose united
height is nearly nineteen feet. Time nor
pace permit us to detail onehalf the new,
iovel and attractive features OF this, the
eally greatest and best tented exhibition
IN this continent.
NARY BEATTY.
The REGISTER young man looked about
him for the $4,000 beauty, Miss Louise
Montague. lie had great expectations of
Ter. He had read in history of the Helen,
whose beauty caused the long and bloody
Trojan war; and in song that Mark An
hOny, intoxicated by :he caresSeS of the
'star.eyed" Egyptian queen, Cleopatra,
'madly flung a world away" The beauty
If either of these historic characters, how
ever, he knew was excclled by this rara
wis and he looked eagerly for her. She
vas not there. Presumably she had gone
10 her ma and had not returned. We can
give our readers the opinion of a Phile-
ielphia man who did see her and was evil
ieRtly very much mashed. He says:
Miss Montague is about twenty-five
80 har haa ,. IS 81, H.,
nette type; her hair, which would shame
he raven, is long. wavy and abundant, and
possesses that silky texture which is such a
pleasant contrast 10 that dead ebony we so
often meet. Nature has not dealt to Miss
Mon tague with sparing hand. for in addi
lion to her luXuriant hair, which crowns
Shapely head, she possesses u face so striE-
ngly beautiful that one wonders how so
much loyelinesS can be concentrated in one
human being. Her features are regular
md classical, and of the Greek type, with
he exception, perhaps, OF her nose
,urving little from the acquiline,
md bordering on what is usually term
I'd the American. Her lips are full and
expressive, and when parted in a smile
display double row of teeth that are typ
Cal in their regularity and dazzling white
ness. But, more than anything else. Miss
hNuldSue eyes give neT tue Cldln 10
great beauty. They are large and of
black brown color, and are so changeable
hat one is at a loss to describe them by
my definite phraseology. Her long, curved
'ye-laShes seem like sentinels to keep
watch over the various emotions that find
in the twinkling orbS below.
Her face is one that once seen can never
De forgotten. 1t is one that would be Sc
ected from thousand as a most excellent
ype of queenly beauty! Her form is re-
ilistic tangible form-a form tall and
'hapely, with a carriage at once easy and
graceful. To say the least, this famous
'eauty whom Forepaugh has brought be-
ore the public, will compare very favora-
~ with Mrs. Langtry or other celebrated
There was another disappointment. The
great lola, the renowned wonder of the
century, who is blown from the
mouth of a cannon and shot high into the
Iir and into the arms of her sister, who is
inverted for that purpose, also failed to
1t was too sad. However, the
s. 900 people who attended the two per
Ormances, did not know what they had
missed, in losing these two specialties, and
'Oted the CircuS q success The concert