The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1902-06-26
CIRCUS DAY IS NEAR.
Everything in Readiness for
the Engagement of Ring
ling Bros. Big Show.

Next Wednesday July End, is circus
day. After much preliminary herald
ing and world of pleasurable anti
cipation Ringing Brothers. famous
big show will be seen here in all it's
magnificent completeness. In the Or
ganization of such collosal national
entertainment, and in bringing to the
homes OF the people the rare and curl
GUS things of the wide world. The five
famous proprietors of this greatest of
all great shows have constituted them
selves public benefactors. Ringing
Brothers. Circus is so admirably Or
ganized that there is something to in
terest and hold the attention of every
spectator. The student of natural
history is furnished the grandest OBJ
ject lesson that the human mind could
possibly conceive of, for the wonders
OF the animal world are brought to-
gether in living, breathing reality.
The lover of fine stock has here 500
magnificent, thoroughbred horses up
on which to feast his eyes. The ad
mirer of physical beauty and perfec-
ton in athletic achievement is RECALLED
with the performances of hundreds of
the worlds most famous acrobats,
gymnasts and riders. The artistic in
stinct finds qualification in the SPLEEN
dor of pageantry that out-Neros Nero.
Even the devotee of the turf is not for
gotten, for the finest racing thorough
breds of Europe, Arabia and our own
Kentucky are matched in the most
thrilling and hotly-contested trials of
speed and equine endurance. From
the initial parade that precedes the
opening of the engagement until the
close of the final performance, every
thing is upon scale of grandeur and
magnitude hitherto unknown in the
amusement world. The inaugural
street parade takes place at 10 O'Clock
in the morning, ard is fitting intro
ductlon to the wonders of the big
show. This great parade is Ringing
Brothers free Offering to the people.
No one who sees Ringing Brothers
parade will miss the performance. 1t
is splendid promise of what is to fol-
low in the big show. Its hundreds of
proudly -stepping horses, with waving
plumes and trappings of gold gilt
tering in the sunlight; it's gorgeously
custumed knights and ladies, heralds
and courtiers; it's brilliantly uniformed
soldiery and mounted military bands;
it's great herd of cannon drawing war
elephants; its res plendent gold illumi
mated chariots and cars of state; it's
suberb tableau floats, aud it's scores
OF magnifcently carved and ornament
ed dens and cages of openly-eXhibited
rare wild beasts, form a spectacle that
in wealth of display and beauty Of col
oring rivals the rainbow in prismatic
brilliancy. The opening performance
begins at o'clock, but the doors will
tors an opportunity to see the zoologi-
cal display, including the only living
giraffe, and to enjoy the grand con-
cert by Ganweiler's famous military
band. The performance introduces
hundreds of new and novel acts, en-
listing the services of 300 high-class
performers, 40 clown and hundreds of
auxilliaries, and is declared by all
who have seen it to be the grandest
and most complete arenic exhibition
ever presented before the American
public. Reserved numbered seats and
admissions show day at Hanson &
Emerson's drug store at exactly the
same price as charged at the regular
ticket wagons on the show grounds.
There will only be an afternoon per-
Torrance here.