Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-10-11
THE BEST AND BIGGEST. RlNcLlNc BRos.s GREAT STREET
 PARADE AND CIRCUS. The Parade Was tn 6 Largest, Most ArtIs- .. tic and Satisfactory Ever Given by Circus tn Pine Biuff.-A Great
 Performance.-Some of
 the Features.

long trains from Little Rock at an
 early hour this morning. Early as it was the small boy had arrived first, as the small boy usually does
 on the advent of circus. The first shall be last and the last shall be first.' This may be quoted of the small boy today, for he was not only
 the first to welcome the incoming trains loaded with the wealth of "Ormus and of Ind" but he has been night he will dream of giraffes, som ersaults and monkeys with red jack cts performing fantastic gyrations. There are others of maturer years who are not so far behind the small boy in their devotion to the circus. These, of all classes and conditions, filled the streets of our city today to see the gigantic street parade and this afternoon occupied all available seating capacity under the circus tent
  promptly at 10 o'clock this morning. 1t was 8 brilliant cavalcade. It
 bristled with bright new features, and blazed in the warm sunlight with the glimmer of gold and color. The eye was not only pleased. but the ear as well, by what may be termed the perfection of circus music. There were herds of elephants, cam els, curious cattle and elk; great open dens from which the captive kings of the forests viewed the crowd with complacent superiority.
 At2 o'clock the doors to the big show were thrown open and the crowds surged into the menagerie. It was veritable trip around the
 world, in a geological sense, and the crowd did not leave off admiring and
 wondering until the strains of the big military band in the circus tent called them thither.
 In one corner was Mamie" the darling of the show. genuine ~A foot giraffe, mute and silent, with eyes as geItle as that of q lawn, but
 away up where one couldn't look into them closely; a body that lacked all symetry, but Is beautifully marked, a neck so long and fragile looking as to make one think of the head toppling off by contact with the cages.
 Another great drawing card, the big hippopotamus "Pete," 12 years old and weighing fully two tons with mouth like the excavation ina New Jersey clay pit and large enough to take in q parlor stove, and with eyes like two biscuits under telescope lens.
 "Trilby." the baby elephant, is great source of attraction for the lit- tie folks; 1smonths old, from Singa- pore, India, captured by Arsting- stall the celebrated animal prOcurer, now under contract to bring over several cargoes of wild animals- for the Ringling Brothers.
 A great source of delight to the small boy is naturally the large dens of monkeys of which there are great numbers ofall kinds and varities.
 Among the denizens of their large cage is q large and ferocious animal of the man killing species, always fierce and only kept in subjection by his keeper with base bali bat.
 As to the performance, there was not stale or old-time feature, everything was new, novel and first class and such q bewildering suc- cession of good things as to fairly stagger the, ,beholder. The Dacomas' aerial act, the Nelson family of nine performers, recent importa- ton from London and without a peer in the acrobatic world, the big Landauer family troupe and many other features constituted circus performance far superior to any thing ever before seen in this city. Taking all in all, it is but just to say that Ringling Bros. are the monarch of the amusement world and their show is now without doubt the biggest and best institu- tion of the kind now before the public.
 The doors will be open at o'clock tonight for the big sllow-the per- formance commences at 8 o'clock and repetition of this afternoons entertainment will be given. Admission and reserve seat tickets are on sale at Walkers Drug Store, no Main street. at the reduced nrices. Adults. soc; Children, 25c.