Semi=weekly graphic., 1895-10-12
THE BEST AND BIGGEST.
RINcLiNc sRos.'s GREAT STREET
 PARADE AND CIRCUS.
The Parade Was the Largest. Most Artls- tic and Satisfactory Ever Given ay Circus in Pine BIaf.-A Crest
 Performance,--some of
 the Features
the Features.

Ringling Bros. Worlds Greatest Shows arrived in several sections of 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 q 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 tOrmus and of Ind" but he has been omnipresent all day long, and to- 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.
 The parade left the grounds promptly at 10 o'clock this morning. It was a brilliant cayalcade. It bristled with bright new features, and blazed in the warm sunlight with the glimmer Of goid and color. The eye was not only pleased, but tine ear as well, by what may be termed eperfection of circus music. There were 4A4e herds .da -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'@ock 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, a genuine IA foot giraffe, mute and silent, with eyes as geEtle as that of a lawn, but away up where one couldn't look into them closely; a body that lacked all symetry, but is beautifully marked, 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 a mouth like the excavation in a New Jersey clay pit and large enough to take in parlor stove, and with eyes like two biscuits under a telescope lens.
 "Trilby the baby elephant. is a 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 of all kinds and varities.
 Among the denizens of their large cageis a large and ferocious animal of the man killing species, always fierce and only kept in subiection by his keeper with a base ball bat.
 As tt the performance, there was not a stale or old-time feature, every thing was new, novel and first class and such a bewildering sue cession of good things as to fairly stagger the beholder. The Dacomas' aerial act, the Nelson family of nine performers, recent importa- tion from London and without a peer in the acrobatic world. the big Landauer family troupe and many other features constituted a 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 a doubt the biggest and best institu- tion of the kind now before the public.
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