Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1899-07-25
ELEPHANT COMEDIANS.
Lockhart's Famous Elephant
Actors With Ringing Bros
Big Circus. ~

LOCknarCS elepnanC cOMeulduS,
which will be seen with Ringling
Brothers circus when that famous
big show exhibits in Little Fails,
Saturday July 20, are undoubtedly
the most remarkable trained troupe
of animal performers in the world.
Lockhart's elephants have been the
most pronounced sensation Of Eu-
rope for several seasons, and the
amount of money paid by the Ring
ling Brothers to bring this wonder
full troupe of animals to America
would be sufficient to equip and in
definitely operate a dozen good-sized
'circuses. These elephants are not
simply GRAINED animals" They
are veritable animal actors, display
ing as much good sense and judg-
ment, as great an appreciation of
the humor of their several roles and
as sincere desire to please and en-
tertain the audience, as any human
performer in the great exhibition.
Probably the most amusing comedy
presented by these elephant actors is
one portraying the arrest, trial, con-
viction and incarceration of an ele-
phantfor intoxication. The spectacle
OF the clown elephant, rolling from
side to side, apparently in the
sportive stage of intoxication, is.
ludicrous in the extreme. In the
midst OF his revelry, the policeman
arrives, armed cap-a-pie with a huge
official helmet and jauntly twirling
a club in his trunk. The offending
elephant attempts to escape, but the
policeman is too quick for him. The
offender is seized by the ear, marched
away to the magistrates office,
solemnly tried and sentenced by an
elephant Judge sitting in his judicial
dignity upon his judicial bench, and
finally hurried away, a condemned
prisoner, to suffer durance in the ele-
plant Jail. The Lockhart elephants
are, however. only one of three
troupes of elephant actors. They
are an English Importation. From
Germany comes Herr Sonder's Won
derful elephantine brass band. In
credible as it may seem this CON-
pany OF prOboscidian musicians not
only play upon huge helican horns,
but they actually master popular
air in a way only possible to such a
mammoth twenty-ton band. France
is represented in this triumvirate OF
elephantine wonders by Marchand's
pugilistic pachyderms, a company of
clever elephants carefully schooled in
the manly art of self-defense. In
every kind of trained animal exhibit
ton, in the size and completeness of
it's geological collection, in the num-
Der OF the high. class performers, in
the hippodrome, and in the magnifi-
cence of it's professional displays,
Ringing Brothers famous circus is
without a rival on earth.
-Indianapolisshas taken the lead
in the Western base ball league, just
now a few points ahead OF Mime
apolis.
The Monarch elevator, at this
place, has closed down for repairs.
Old wheat is about all marketed so
the company is out nothing by the
stODDing Of the machinery, The
wheat bins are being cleared out and
repaired. Considerable new spout
ing is also being placed in. The
lower ends of the old spouting had
worn and given out SO that they
would not hold wheat. About
twenty-five bushels of grain was de-
posted in the basement of the eleva-
tor; all OF which had leaked out o