Evening journal., 1890-09-03

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and beat the others with whip. One OF
the contestants retRliated by breaking his
hold with his opponent and striking the
| other with brick. The brick hit the
man in the abdomen and hurt him very
much. Notwithstanding this be ran
after the man who had thrown the brick
| Both men were bareheaded and
they were followed by crowds
as they ran wildly around
the fair gounds The pursued man sue.
ceeded in escaping. however 1t Is said
that the man who ran after him was
only half wltted and would have killed
the other had he caught him. but 1t is
not known to be true.
Professor Parher's Dogs.
Professor Parker has an interesting
family Of dogs. He says 1t takes three
months TO train dog for general work,
six months for leaping, year for somer-
saults, five or six months for clowns, &C
cording to the character OF the dog.
Katy is dressed in frock and walks
sedately along the platform Duke aud
Frank do the double jumping rope act.
They are the trick dogs and ole OF their
tricksl Is for both to start through an
open basket at the same time.
They get caught In the mar
row opening and have great contest
to see which will get through FIRST
Jerry does ten flip flaps or back air
| springs in ten seconds The show Il
| given before the races and about the
middle Of them each afternoon.
The "RazzIe Dazzle"
Some fiend who did not deem the
sufferings Of men to be quite enough. has
invented machine which gives that feel
ing to people which they have on the
ocean the first forty-eight hours out,
whea they would give all their possession
for a sight of land. 1t gives the same
peculiar feeling, just as IL the bottom
had dropped out of everything and that
you went down in the terrible crash The
name of this Internal machine Is one
characteristic OF it's effects Ii is.known as
the "Razzle Dazzle. che machine is
nothing more than stout centre post 10
which a circular board, about thirteen
inches wide and fifty feet in circumfer-
ence, is ATTACHED by iron cables. The
people sit on this board and the corner Of
the "Razzle Dazzle" and a muscular as
sistant begins to pull 1t around with
ropes as fast as possible. This pulling
by two ropes at the same time gives the
board the up and down motion peculiar
to ship in heavy sea.
Advertising abe shows.
The shows which give so-called per-
formanees on the grounds here have
novel styles Of advertising them. One
show had several men dress in the most
/. ridiculous costumes and wear enormous
false faces so as to gather a crowd
} around, Then the garrulous ticket agent
easily draws the hys within his net.
} Another show had two men dress as col
ored people and cit in front of the tent
playing q tambourine and singing "a,
, When the crowd becomes large enough the
) ticket agent gets in his fine work. He tells
+ Of the wonders which did exist, and those
which never did and never will exist.
The credulous people deposit their dime
) in the slot and pass in to see few was
i works and hear q brass band Of three
pieces.
i Enterprising Fakirs.
4 The fakirs at the present fair seen
g innumerable. There Is the fakir witt
/ the silver ore, who viii sell you a SOLE
= silver tea service warranted for invent,
1 years, for IS So There is the one whC
: viii sell you solid, eighteen carat COLE
+: rings at 10 cents each Any sensibl,
/, person would surely know better than Il
, suppose that he could get a gold ring fol
], 10 cents, you say. Well, possibly any
e sensible person might, but the fact re-
mains that many people do buy these
rings and believe that they have got the
genuine article The fakir tells some
plausible story as to how the rings were
struggled into this country, or how they
were stolen and found by him or one Of
his brothers, and it is
well-known fact that every fakil
has from four to ten brothers
/ and they are all usually in the same lin,
of business. Then again there Is this
: fakir who approaches you when you are
! | by yourself in some out of-the-wa,
/ place and confidently asks you to buy
watch or a ring, dirt cheap, which h,
will not tell you how he got He say
he is in Strengthened circumstances an,
wishes just enough money 10 take hin
. to Philadelphia or Baltimore Well
3 sometimes he buys the ring for about s.
or more. The purchaser takes it 10 sum
! first class jeweler to have IL tested. Tn
n ieweler applies the acid test and return
the ring TO the purchaser with The ad
monition not to buy filed rings il tn
, future.
Tight Rope Performance.
!. tight rope walker gave some exhibi
tions on the rope and trapsze in front o
the grand stand yesterday afternoon
The rope was drawn overtwo poles 2b0n
forty feet high and trapeze was at
tached about the middle of the rope Tn,
man went through the same Of,
msneuvres Of sll the tight rore walkers
walking backward, sitting down OF
the rope, and balancing on a chair on
trapezs. The performance was not 81
extraordinary one, but the way the ma
filed his hat with money afterward wa
extraordinary He was hustler aud he
showed 1t. He went through the crow
before the people had time to collect thei
senses, and aoout the tins they came Il
consciousness they found themselve
dropping nickels and dimes into th'
mans hat.
Many additions have been made to tn
. fruit exhibits in the west side of tn
main building, and the display now Il
: one of the largest ever seen here; proba
] bly, the largest since the horticulture
9 fair held in the Opera House. All loca
4 fruit and vegetables are represented.
The show OF fine horses is the bes
ever seen in this county. All the STALL
3 are filed and the horses are not common
ones but good stock The horses are a,
e in good condition and always have
1 crowd of admiring gszers about them.
9 The fine modelling in clay by the pupils
of school No. 10 has both astonished anC
. interested the yisi ors TO the fair They