Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-02-04
WHAT CIRCUS PEOPLE EAT.

NIT. JdIIleS VI. NlhOll, tillu Wiohi Ho
living man knows more about a circus,
said to an interviewer: "There are no peO.
pie, excepting painsmen-the skirmishers
over the wild country of the west-Who
live so hard a life as circus employees, both
performers and workingmen. Their life is
not as hard now, as it was some years
ago, excepting with the small concerns:
They are the 'wagon-shOWs' that travel
through the small towns. But even with
the big concerns that travel by train it is
hard enough now.
"Take the case of WagOn-ShOW that has
to travel thirty miles after night perform
ance to get to the next town, where street
procession is to be made in the forenoon.
The workmen, canvasmen, and the like
have to take breakfast at II o'clock at night.
Then they get no meal till dinner, after the
procession-say at noon. Wherever they
are, the work must be attended to first, and
eating is second consideration. With the
performers-gymnasts, riders, clowns, and
the like-it is not quite so bad. They get
better pay and better food. AS a rule they
live on the best food there is to be had where
they happen to be, and they take great
deal of it. Most of them are great beef-eat-
ers, and are not very particular whether the
meat is cold or hot, so long as it is good and
plenty. They are very PARTICULAR, about
cleanliness. | have seen twenty or thirty OF
them get up and leave the table because the
tablecloth was dirty. And when they want
a meal they want it and will haveit have
often seen them leave a hotel where they
would have to wait fifteen minutes for din
ner that was paid for, and go to Il restaurant
where they would have to buy another
They won't eat unless they are hungry; but
they are always hungry after Il night per-
formance, and will not 90 to bed without a
hearty supper. They say they can't sleep if
they are empty.
Zone thing that is peculiar about them is
that they do not take medicine, and they are
remarkably healthy. When they are out
of sorts they diet themselves, each ore
according to his own ideas, but l don't think
l ever saw $50 worth of medicine around a
circus in all the years l have been in the
business. Yes, they drink. Not to excess,
but nearly all of them drink when they feel
like it, They are very careful of them
selves. They have to be or they would not
last long.
Gas matter of course, with their irregu-
lar habits, they are in certain sense extrav-
agant. Their extravaganza, however, is
mainly in the matter of eating. Expert
ence teaches them very soon, if their own
sense does not at first, that they must take
the very best possible care of themselves
y
nv c0nsideratiOn.-IHe he Cook.
INIIOSpITABLE, DESOLATE LABRAD0R.-
When Jacques Cartier first saw the coast of
Labrador-a desert of rock and pine, with a
gray sky above and Il gray sea beating its
shOres-he is said to have exclaimed, "This,
indeed, is the land given to Cain" Since
then it has changed little-an Outcrop of
wretched novels has sprung up on its
shores, dingy fleet of sealing boats rock in
its bays, a haggard race of half-fed, half
savage creatures struggle with its en-
COMPRISING seas for livelihood, but with
these exceptions it is as bleak, as cold, as ut
! terly inhospitable and desolate as when the
French explorer first skirted its coast. Its
history is IL record Of the terrors of the sea,
of PIRATES, Of hurricanes and of shipwreck.
| On the sunken rocks on its shores, ships
have foundered by hundreds; from its vii
lages fathers, husbands and brothers have
sailed forth never to return.
A CASE OF ROTATION OF CRops.-The
agricultural editor, ordinarily alert, has
missed an item in a Georgia newspaper,
having an important bearing on the subject
of rotation Of crops. The newspaper re-
| ferred to says: son the acre of ground sur
rounding where Tom Belts was hanged, in
Clayton county, Mr.. j. d. Graves has made
fifty-two bushels of corn, $50 bundles of
fodder, and 2,574 pounds of pumpkins"
Evidently corn should follow hemp.-Mico-
go Tribune.