The Opelousas courier., 1882-11-11
A Magnificent Exhibition at Opel
ousas, Sunday, Nov. IA.

Show has Il larger amount of canvas than
any other show travelling, these mann
moth tents being matter of necessity
OF account of the mastodonic proper
tions Of the entertainment furnished. In
each and every department it excels all
competitors in quantity, novelty and
merit Of its presentations. In the circus
will be found the leading equestriennes,
equestrians, vaulters, leaperr, gymnasts,
acrobats. jugglers, etc. In the museum,
in addition to score of really novel at
fractions, will be found the greatest
wonder of the world, Millie Christine,
the "Two- Headed Nightingale, y ayoung
woman with but one body and two
heads. Miss Christine appeared twice
before Queen Victoria at her Majesty's
command, and so pleased was the latter
that she presented Miss Christine with
o handsome diamond necklace. Unlike
natural monstrosities Millie Christine is
pleasant to look upon and charms all
with her brilliant conversational abili-
ties. She sings like nightingale and
dances with the grace of a fairy. 1t
should be borne in mind that Millie
Christine is part of the big show and
not side show attraction. This great
novelty was secured by Batcheller &
Doris at an expense Of 1926, 900 for the
season, the highest salary ever paid any
single attraction in this or any other
country. The n,enagerie is the most
complete ever seen in this country, in
Guiding animals that have never before
been in captivity. The street pageant
/! is the handsomest and most gorgeous
ever seen, introducing the famous $l0,
600 beauty, the handsomest woman in
the world. In line will also be open
dcns of performing animals and snakes,
jubilee singers, bands of music, hand
some tableaux cars, gilded cages and
hundreds of gaily caparisoned knights
and ladies.
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According to the latest census the
population of London is 1864, ,3l2,
which is much larger than the popula-
ton of the thirteen colonies before the
Revolution. There are in this great
city more than double the number OF
people in Denmark, including Green
land nearly three times as many as in
Greece more than eighteen times the
population of Montenegro some thOus-
ands more than Portugal, including the
Azores and Madeira nearly treble the
population of Servia more than Nor
way or Sweden or Switzerland.
China is something of a country. II
has four canals, equal to all the rest in
the world. Some of them are five thous-
and years old; the longest was dug six
hundred years ago, and is twice as long
as the Erie canal. That Titanic wall Of
defense, the Chinese wall, was built
more than one hundred years B. c.; il
; is from twenty to thirty feet high, and
fifteen hundred miles long. and repre-
sents more labor than any other struc.
ture on the globe.