St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-07-30
JOHNSBURY, THURSDAY

home last week from their stay of sey-
eral weeks at Shelburne. They report
a fine time, including some excellent
fishing. Mr.. Fletcher's son was made
happy by catching a fivs-pound black
| bass.
j. Irving Folsom and sister go to-
day to Kittery Point, Maine, on their
vaeation.-Jehn Barstow is in town for
day or two. Mr.. Barstow was called
home from Europe by the death of his
mother y Mrs. n. C. Waugh of Som
| melville. Mass, is visiting family
friends in town.-Mrs. F. G. (Carr)
Ellison of Springfield is visiting at her
mothers in Summerville.
z. w. Greenslitt, of Florida, former
Fly of The Caledonian, has changed
his journalistic connection in that
state, retiring from the editOrship of
tile New Florida at Orlando to assume
that of the Tavares Herald. The last
issue of the New Florida contains the
folFos-ing notice: "We dislike to part
with our accomplished editor, Mr.. L.
w. Greenslitt, but as he leaves Orlan-
do to take charge of a paper of his own,
he has our best wishes for his future
success in his new home. Mr.. @. and
our enterprising real estate agent, Mr..
Chas. ID. Sweet, have purchased the
Tavares Herald, and left Friday even
ing to take possession. Mr.. Sweet will
return in a day or two, and Mr.. Green
slit will he in charge of the Herald.
We congratulate the people of Tavarcs
upon their new acquisition"
'Barnum Returns No More"
The Biggest and Best of Shows.
The event coward which the whole
creation moved" last Saturday-that is
to say, a large part of the human crea-
ton in this vicinity-was Barnum's
mighty, moral, all over shadOwing
show with its 10000 solid tons of moral
the show unload from the cars Satur-
day morning were impressed with the
perfection of system with which every
thing WAS done, the same being true of
the putting up and taking down of the
tents, the latter being well to pieces
Saturday night before the audience
were fairly off the grounds.
The street parade was a little late in
starting, but made good its pledge of
being the 'largest, longest, grandest
and most glorious of the age. Cor
geous chariots, a herd of l6 elephants,
IL camels, cages open to the public
gaze containing tigers, lions, bears,
a polar bear and a hippopotamus, were
only part of the pageant. Actual count
showed over 200 horses in the process
sion, including some handsome ami
mails. The procession started from the
fair grounds and moved through Rail
road street, Eastern avenue, Main,
Winter, Summer and Central streets,
| and back again through the avenue
and Railroad street to the show
grounds. A heavy rain fell early in
! the morning, SO that there was no dust.
A smart shower came up about one
o'clock but passed by before the after
noon performance began. Saturday
was the beginning of dog-days in fact
as we'll as by the almanac, and the
warmest day of the season. The show
under the wide spreading canvas was
first-class throughout. In the first
tent besides "Jo-Jo," who resembled
his pictures, and the other curious peO-
pie comprising the chronological con-
gress," were the sacred white elephant,
the baby elephant and biggest of all
Jumbo. The latter has become an in
verate beggar and continually stretch
ed out his trunk for peanuts and other
refreshments. Jumbo is now 24 wears
old and is the youngest as well as thu
largest of Barnum's herd of large Gle
plants. The menagerie in the second
tent comprised an excellent and inter
esting collection of animals.
Lastly came the great circus tent
which was comfortably filed III the af-
ternoon by from 900 to 10000 PEG
pie, the evening audience being mucl
less The performance was of grca
excellence, the only drawback being
the difficulty of looking at three per
formances going on at once. The mos
beautiful feature was the artistic statu,
posings of the Gilfort. brothers. TIL,
most wonderful was the amazing feat
of the Spaniard, Juan Caicedo, upon
high single wire. The cOntortions o
Tatalia upon rings in the top of TIN
tent were also very remarkable. Tn
: funniest feature was the tricks of tn
clown elephant, "Tom Thumb" VIII
actually seemed possessed of sens
of humOr. This elephant is not a bah.
but a dwarf, and is older than Jumbo
Nala Damajante, the snake cllarmel
the trained stations, the men and wo
r men riders, Mile. Zarah's high wir
I descent by her teeth, are but part q
OIL the attractions that might justly. b
noticed. We We're glad to see til
: clowns kept in the background. TIL
!. usual .'concert" came after the per
formance, noteworthy feature bein
IL Mr.. Whitfield's clever and humOrOu
< presentations of diverse characters.
5 Among the elephants who appeare
5 in the ring was tFritz," who was tn
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