Arizona weekly citizen., 1892-10-08
THE GREATEST CIRCUS
Rohinscn's, the World Renowned,
 Appears in Tucson.
To Vast Audience.-Sceue in and
 Around the Great Tents.

On the 3rd the much advertised and
 well known popular circus of Robinson made US appearance in Tucson, con- posed Of 600 people among whom were 6O lady performers. The trains that
 pulled them into the city were elaborate.
 Three trains pulled them into Tucson,
 each train had six passenger coaches,
 and each coach was sixty feet long and
 600 people were occupants of these
 castles on wheels. Huge elephants and
 giraffe and African lions and black
 tigers, spotted leopards and peculiarly
 marked iaguar.
 There were two immense African
 liens old and tawney and five young
 handsome, powerful lions of which
 three were years of age and two was
 II months of age. There was little
 honey bear the size of pug dog and a
 great tall comeley necked giraffe who
 appeared to be tall enough to peer over the peaks of the Catslinas. There
 were three monster elephants. One
 wrlnkled and old rated at 15S years. An other, a vast deal younger, chased at 2S years. and a younger that had pot reached her teens yet, and rated at four years younger than sixteen.
 There were tour beautiful and sight ly ostriches. African ostriches and one Australian ostrich. There was a male nylgrinhyn of the wild COW species with a face and countanance and short horns similar to deer or antelope. whilst large beard extended half way between the upper neck and the foreshoulder.
 There was coal black faced monkey with face bearing many expressions of human being and most of his express ions were those of an intelligent person age, whilst his face was black hIs body was blue as indigo.
 There was horse that was beautiful in form from its shoulders to it's ex- tremities. A very pretty animal, whilst its neck was hardly foot long and in order to eat hay from the ground it was compelled to place one of its fore legs forward some distance and the other some distance backward before it was enabled to reach the ground with it's mouth to pick up the hay.
 There were monster black eagles; there were prairie wolves and the west ern coyote. There were Russian Ooars with savage and vicious appearance, with sharp hideous tusks which they sharpaned against the iron rods of the | cages; there were sacred bovines with | horns of peculiar structure and to emu merate the extent of these various and varied species of interesting animals | would take up many pages. It would | Ina wall ta rln1nm hor fhaf all fhnoa | animals hailing from Africa most all of | their tongues were black; that the | giraffe is the largest out of the only five | that now exest in the United States; l that the two lions are the largest in the | United States. MT. Steele, the great | animal subduer, and who swings a | powerful influence over these animals. | lost ne'of his fingers by the tooth of | the largest king of the forest coming in contact with 1t.
 The grand parade took place through | the streets of Tucson during the fore- noon and a large crowd thronsed | Meyer and Congress streets and gather ed thickly around Military plaza. The parade was at its best and in addition to the great menagrie of wild beasts | there were soDgsters in the world of and series of bag pipes | played by the motive power of little I steam boiler. There will evidently be | as there always IS, large crowd st the night performance. Robinson's show has always kept up its reputation IS record surpasser in all pertaining | 5o animals and likewise excellent ring | work. Their athletes are good and heir actors are likewise stars.