The record-union., 1892-07-04
THE Big SHOW.
Sells Brothers Menagerie and Circus
Greatly Enlarged.
1t VIII Join in the Fourth of July
Parade-Two Performs
ances To-day.

Sells Brothers menagerie and circus,
now claiming rank as 1.-The big show of
the world" will exhibit at Agricultural
Park at 2 o'clock and p. NJ. to-day.
The menagerie doors open at and at
PM The circus parade viii take place
at 10 A. N. and viii follow the line of the
Fourth of July procession march, coming
directly after the Grand MarshaFs col
umn as far as Tenth and K streets, where
it will drop out. This is according to an
arrangement made with the Grand Mar
shal and the Sells Brothers.
Every year of the many in which Sells
Brothers have been here they have given
perfect satisfaction. This year they have
q larger and better show than ever. For
instance, they come fresh from Australia
sia, and everything has been frightened
and put in frst-class order in San Fran
cisco. Then they added in Australia to
the performing corps several Australian
artists, whose methods are novel to the
American public.
They have greatly increased the num-
her of other artists, employees, attaches,
and of rare animals. Then to the mem
agerie they have added two mammoth
India tigers, the largest ever seen in
America; cage of kangaroos, novelty
because no family of kangarooS has been
shown here. only single examples. Some
OF the family are not larger than turkey.
They have added a caSSoWary, a bird
with hair-like covering instead of feathers
and with single quin instead OF feathers
in the wings. This bird is very large and
strong, and it is said can carry a mans
weight.
There are twelve more cages than Sells
Brothers showed last year, and in one are
shown two performing seals, the first
ever brought here. There are other
novelties and features new to the show
and the American people. The expense
Of this enormous establishment Is 5000
q Gay on the average.
Ii we are at all to believe the Australia
sian press, the show comes crowned with
such foreign recognition as no other en-
1ertainment mas ever obtained. The Aus
1ralian press is unit in recognizing that
not one of its big advance promises was
permitted TO go TO protest. AS an exam
pie of The impression it created III q
strange land among stranger cities we
learn from an extended notice in that
great Australian daily, the Melbourne
Age, Of January 11th last, that lit must
be pronounced a brilliant success, for it
may be safely said that no such panorama
of wonders has ever before been unfolded
to a Melbourne audience" That ''all is
so good it would be hard to pick out any
particular item as being the most worthy
of praise" and that 1T would take too
much space to mention in detail all the
wonderful performances on horseback
and foot that were given" That the
''races were splendidly contested, and
furnished brilliant spectacles." OF the
startling and weird performances by the
only troupe Of Bedouin warrior gym
nasts, it says:
Decidedly one of the strangest and
most fascinating displays was given by
the troupe OF Arabs. These are led into
the arena by their chiefs, and after pre-
liminary war dance some surprising
foats in the art of handling weapons are
given. Some attack each other with the
Arab creeses, others with swords, and
whilst these latter contests were going
forward there were not few amongst
the audience who held their breath. The
men were armed with sword and buck
Ter, and they engaged in combat with the