The record-union., 1892-06-13
A FORBfGN TRIUMPH
Sells Brothers Return Crowned Wit
Victorious Wrcaths.

Sells Brothers Return Crowned With
Victorious Wrcaths.
On the sixteenth of October last Sells
Brothers Big Show of the World sailed
from San Francisco for Sydney, Austria
liza, thus inaugurating the most extraordi-
nary and yentureSome tour of its kind on
record, and which was destined to bear
the golden fruits of proportionate sue
cess. The leading journals of America all
backed its pluck and enterprise with the
strongest editorial assurances that its pro-
prietors were entitled to universal respect
as representatives, of the best type of gen
ulne American manhood, and their great
exhibition to all the popularity and sue
cesses such ownership ought to confer.
That they never compounded with fraud
by claiming that people like to be hum
bugged." That they acted upon the wise
and just principle OF giving their patrons
more than their moneys worth, and al
ways recognized that one mans money
was as good as another'S, by giving the
same complete show III every place OF ex-
hlbltlon, instead OF stutiing the metropo-
lis and then starving the farmer, under
pretense of serving him the same feast.
That they treated the public fairly, and
by so doing gained the full backing of
popular confidence in their promises.
Those made to the people of Australia
certainly suggested the biggest feast of
animate wonders and amazing acts ever
spread before an eager throng, and of the
tens and hundreds of thousands who pat
ronized the show during its six months
Australian season there is proof that not
one went away, disappointed or dissatis-
fed.
1t is evident that only merit, and that
OF the most pronounced kind, could Sc
cure good words from not oVer-partial
independent and critical foreign press:
and when it unanimously conceded, as it
did even before the show was able to
utilize single horse in any way, that its
SURPRISING greatness was no vain boast
1t settled the question ofhonest supremacy
both at home and abroad. The great
sydney dallleS remarked that multiplying
clrcuSeS and stages and entertainments
might appear at first sight to be waste of
energy and talent, but there was no de-
nylng the lmpressiveness that it lends to
the show as a whole. That the spectator
felt himself bewilderingly amazed by the
variety OF the efforts made for his enter
talnment. That space failed them to note
all the striking features of a programme
almost as complicated as railway time
table. This one thing, however, remained
distinctly clear: That in Sells Brothers,
amusement arithmetic, ciphers don't
~ fNS5S dtlOIt VI tu6IH Will
make unit; neither will any number of
commonplace things and unknown fill
ups make great show. The Messrs.
Sells know this, and their united grand
Australian living exhibit, monster me-
nagerie, regal Roman hippodrome triple
circus, elevated Olympian stage. aerial
displays, tribe OF wild Bedouin warriors,
chiidren's tairy-Iand frolics, darkest
Africa aquarium, spectacular pilgrimage
to Mecca, and Arabian Nights enter
tainments include and represent only that
which Is most wonderful, excellent, eX-
citing and refined. From performing
mammoth, or huge disporting amphibia.
to daintiest detail, there is nothing in
terior or commonplace about this extra
ordinarily rich and attractive alliance. 1t
possesses every feature, feat and display.
OF both home and foreign origin, in keep
ing with such an entertainment, that can
be procured, and many nowhere else to
be seen; and all will be exhibited at
Sacramento on Monday, July 4th, lust as
advertised, and with the honorably won
prestige of holding first place in two
great empires, thousands OF miles apart.