Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-08-23
THE GREATEST ON EARTH.

Barnum and Jumbo Coming October 9Th.
One of the most popular of evangelists
is in the city. That is one of the repre-
sentatives of Jumbo Barnum and Barnum's
Jumbo materialized in our sanctum last
night, blooming and beaming like whole
arena full of rare tropical exotlcs, to Of
fcially notify the world Of St. Paul and
vicinity, through the GLOBE, that the date
of the Great Barnum and London, Eight
United Monster Shows, for st. Paul, had
been unavoidably changed to Friday, Oc-
tober 9Th, just two days later than at first
announced. Make note of this, and also
of the equally positive and important fact
this wondrous and colossal entertainment
will be accompanied by the mighty Jumbo,
and every feature, sensation, spectacle, act
and performance which made its recent Wis
it to Chicago such an unparalleled success,
and set over quarter of million people
all agog with amazement. There are two
separate menageries, three circuses in
three rings. a museum of living won
ders, huge elevated stage for the display
of Oiympian games, and the old Roman
| hippodrome; all exhibited under canvases
SO enormous that they cover eight acres of
able that our readers must resort to the
bills for anything like special information,
and even then there will be much left for
the eye to learn, for notable additions of
| the most strange and savage men have
been secured since the regular seasons
printing was completed. First came a
tribe of stalwart Nubians, 1.-the of frame
and fierce or heart, and Mohammedans of
They are strikingly interesting
people, whose history is identified
with the colossal works
and conquests of mysterious Egypt,
thousands of years before the birth of
Greece or Rome. Next arrived genuine
Bushman camp of ferocious, embruted and
treacherous Australian cannibals, black
crackers and boomerang throwers. Their
appearance is savagely grotesque, and
strange beyond conception. Their flesh
is scanned, welted and disfgured with deep,
self inflicted scars, which they regard as
chief ornaments; while huge sticks and
bones are thrust through their nostrils,
ears and lips. They have no language,
and communicate in an outlandish glib
berish and by weird gestures. A company
of genuine male and female Zulus, of
the savage tribe that slew the young
Prince Napoleon and detied the British
arms with such desperate bravery, will
challenge attention. They appear in
their singular native costume and give
marvellous illustrations of their skill in
wariike feats. Burmese priests, voluptu-
Gus and graceful Mandalay dancing girls,
brawny Japanese wrestlers and astonish-
ing jugglers and acrobats, and delega-
ton of savage Sioux Indians, chiefs and
warriors, will also be found in this depart
ment of the great show, the magnitude
and expense of which will also be judged
from its possessing whole herds and
droves of rare wild beasts, instead of sim
gle ordinary specimens. There aye, for
example, twenty nine elephants, superb
giraffes, gigantic ostriches and thirty two
camels and dromedaries. The chariot,
obstacle and other hippodrome races will
prove intensely exciting and amusing.
The array of foreign arenic talent is be-
Jond all precedent, upwards of eighty acts
being given at each performance. The
daily street parade will attract tens of
| thousands to enjoy its gorgeous displays
and sensations. In fact, as the Chicago
press declares, it is a show that cannot be
| described-it must be seen.