The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-07-04
THE CIRCUS OF LONG AGO
IT HELD FIRST PLACE IN GRAND
FATHERS MIND.

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His Astonishment at Being Told Of the
Wonders of that of To-dey-Now He
Wants to See It's Many Attractions
for himself
From the NeiD York Times
One of grandfather's hobbies was the old
time circus be never tired OF telling Of
its wonders as he saw them when he was a
| boy. or the circus of to-day he had vast
contempt, and commended that as compared
with the circus OF his youth it was no cir
Gus at all. It was to overthrow his hobby
that took home the advertisement of " The
Greatest Show on Earth"
"By the way, grandfather" began, I'M
folding the advertisement, "there's great
circus in town, aud I'll take you down 20
see it. l want to open your eyes"
Where's the lot?n he asked, Frightening
"Lotl It's going to be in a big build
Fla, ha, hal" laughed the old gentle
man. "Ha, ha, hal A circus in a build
ing! You mean a toy circus, worked with
strings, like Punch and Judy. You'd
oughter see the circus Of my dayp'
He was wound up and proposed to listen
to him run down.
"Them was the circuses What do you
think of ten horses in the ring all at one
timer"
THAT must have been a corker," re-
sponded.
~ should say sol And 500 or 600 people
In the tent all al one timel HeyG Don't be-
lieve Itl Why, I've known 'em to come ten
miles to see the showl Then there was a
band of six or eight performers. and they
wasn't a bit proud, an sot up among US an
played jest as il we wus as good as they wus.
Tha, khAxy oil ID 49, -
after the show they had minstrel per
formance, an only charged quarter extra
to see it, o, myl o, myl but them wus the
cIrcusesl"
Didn't have any clowns, though" /
ventured.
Didn't, ehl What's the matter with Joe
Pentland. and Dan Rice, an all them fell
fers. Why, Joe told me onct that it cost
nearly 81, 900 a week 20 run the shown
"You mean a month, don't you?h
GA month nothin'. A week. That's wot
How does that strike youp'
He looked at me as il he expected to see
me take At, but only shook my head and
said that feared he was entering his SEQ
ond childhood.
mo hain't, nutherl I'm teliin' you the
| trewth. What do you think of a CIRCUS
travelling over 1000 miles In one season9"
Come, now, grandfather /" l cautioned,
ARE you sure that you didn't mistake the
pottle When you TOOK your last dose OF
rheumatic medicinem
That's all right But it's true, all the
samel And what do you think of havin' a
real tiger an an annyconder, an live
monkeys, an tame zebry in cages9 How
does that strike you? | wus savin' that to
the last T. paralyze you'll l seen circus
onct with all them 10, but tn man wot
owned it bit of more'n he could chew and
he busted"
you're rare one, grandfatherp ex-
postulated; "pm afraid you've been read
ing Baron Munchausen again, and pretty
soon you'll tell me that you saw an elephant
dancing in the ring. Baron Munchausen
and the bottle bring those things on"
''Ahl Many's the time have crawled
under the tent to see the show and had
all thoughts oft knocked out of me with a
picket Many's the time have walked
miles and miles TO see the circus and found
out when l got there that I'd lost my
money! I'd give 81 to see real circus once
againw
I'm take you to this one and
mo, you don'tl Not IN no buildin', you
don't! When see a show want to see
real animals an a real ring and real every
think. You don't get me inter no room 90
see a circus!"
''But this is great big building covering
over an acre Of ground, aud we'll see over
1000 persons acting at the same time
and
People wot's looking on, you meanP'
"No. acting. Five performances all at
the same time"
''Eow yer goin' Z see 'em ala Look
through a penny poppy show while some-
| body turns a crank like they do in a sickle-
rammer, wot they call itP'
mo, no. thousand and more persons,
all In spangles and costumes, acting at
once, and from 10000 to 5000 or ~, 900
persons in the audience ALL
ibid you mistake the bottle while you
| were down towing
mot drop. 1t costs over $1,000 day
to run the show, and they take in nearly
| SO, 900 day."
Baron Munchauser, an Annynias, an
Sophiar."
Last year the show Travelled 7,793 miles
visited 127 towns, aud eighteen different
states"
"Pooty good drivin'p said grandfather
| saroasticallY. 'Do you know how long it'd
| take ter drive Z, 793 miles? If they travelled
that fur it'd take em all winter, m they
wouldn't have emmy time t. showi pve got
| you there, m boy. You'd better go up
stairs m sleep 1t off"
"This show owns its own railroad cars
and has 20 of them. In one day 1t Travelled
| POS miles, and its shortest run was miles 4"
"Go ahead Mebbe [ deserve it fur put
tim in the live tagger an the annyconder,
| but I'll swear to the restr'
"What do you think of a show having
| over 500 horses, ID elephants, camels, 4
dromedarieS. lions, tigers. hyenas, kanga-
roos, giraffes, bears, wolves, hippipotami,
buffaloes, monkeys--"
| The old man shook his head commiserat-
ingly.
"And every known kind of beast, bird,
and creeping thing that was ever heard of
| and"
| "a catch on" said grandfather. "You
want me to go an see a pammyrammy of
/ tn anlmiles goin' inter Noah's ark, an ri
have T. go you. l hain't seen pammy-
rammy in menny year, an don't mind if
| ! take peep at IT,"
| These animals are all alive, and you can
| walk right In and touch 'em up with your
| umbrella If the keeper isn't looking"
IN take Off the zebry II you'll stop, fur.
come T. think Of it, the tame zebry was
stuffed. DO you give upp
mot hair. Why, grandfather, this show
has elephants that do everything but talk.
They play the organ, dance, box with hal I
dozen clowns"
"Half dozen whatP'
| Clowns