Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-08-22
John Robinson,s Great show.

The coming of John Robiuson's Circus
and Menagerie, ''ten shows in one" has al
ready been referred to in detail The ex-
hibition will take place to morrow. The
main tent is 500 by 200 feet and the me-
nagerie canvas is $50 feet in length when
pitched. In addition, a number of tents
for the elephants, troupe of girsffes the
employees and the horses are to be set up
There will be street display, beginning
about 10 O'Clock in the forenoon. at !
O'Clock there will be given al afternoon and
at o'clock an evening performance. The
press criticisms throughout the interior
where the show has appeared, all agree that
Robinson has made good everypromise his
bills, and since these are of the most varied
and attractive character, there is warrant
for believing that the exhibition will be
superior to any of that character yet given
here. The Santa Rosa Democrats of last week
said that the gymnastic and acrobatic per-
formances in the four rings of Robinson's
show were not only novel in many re.
spects, but the best ever given in The State,
and that the collection of animals is of
greater variety and excellence than that of
any menagerie that has visited the coast
Among the special attractions of the show
are Miss Demott the champion female
bare. back rider of the world; the Demott
and Holland families of equestrians; the
celebrated clown, John Lowiow; the ira
peZe and aerial performances; the bicycle
riding; the swinging perch; the globe toss
ing; the Zulu acrobats; the jugglers and
tumblers, and the races, of which there is a
great variety. These are all claimed to be
of the first order and unexcelled by any
circus troupe in the world. For the chill
dren, besides the fine array of wild ami
mails in captivity, is the monster elephant,
the drove of Shetland ponies, the troop of
giraffes, the camels and sacred Oxen 1.-THE
splendid display of chsriots and statuary
cars the barrow and steeple, sack, grey
hound and other ludicrous races, and the
hippodrome races, the white baby lion, and
two other lion cubs, born in captivity.
There are twenty. one scrobals and gym.
nasts in the troupe, ten women who are
skilled riders, seven male two, four and
six-horse riders, one boy rider, who rides
and drives thirty ponies; fifteen aerial and
bicycle performers, ten clowns, and twenty
gymnasts and acrobats, probably greater
number of performers than have ever be-
fore appeared beneath canvas upon the
coast. Concerning the cub lions. Joseph
Robinson's representative says: Two of
the cubs are of the yellowish color of all
lions, but the third is as white as the driven
snow. Cubs born in captivity are hard to
raise, but every effort will be made to bring
up this wonderful creature. The little
ones are not much bigger than ordinary
sized kittens. but the mother eyes them
with jealous regard, and is especially
savage and ferocious now, dreading that
her young will be taken away from her.
Every time anyone approaches the cage
she grabs one of them up in her mouth,
and fears are entertained that she will de
your them. as is the practice, for fear some
one will take them from her."