Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-24
TEN WONDERFUL BABIES COME
"wednesday wuI witness Arrival of
some Remarkable Youngsters
In Omaha.

Ten OF the most wonderful babies in the
world will arrive in omaha early wednes-
day morning They represent thousands Of
dollars and are guarded like royalty.
Their mothers arc fercely jealous Of them.
ready to fight to death to protect them.
There arc three sets Of twins among them,
which accounts for seven mothers Of ten
babies. All are American born, but OF
foreign descent BY and by they will be-
come good Americans. and are already inn
mensely popular They weigh from a few
pounds to upward of a ton apiece.
BY the way. these babies are animal ba-
| bies They are the star feature OF the
menagerie connected with EiRgliuE Bros
circus and it is quite unnecessary TO add
that they are at once the delight and de-
spair OF tho circus men.
! There is sad story Of tactless young
man who gazed spprovnsly at a baby-s
/ human baby-once and said: "He is Just
as cunning as a puppy" and now he doesn't
| call there any more. But a wild animal
baby is not only cunning; he is also rare
and valuable 1t is hard to breed him and
also hard to raise him His chances in
civilization are about as slim as those OF
a human baby would he II he were born in
the tangled jungles OF Africa. where the
Early Wednesday morning Ringing
| Bros circus Is scheduled to arrive from
Sioux City on four special trains Of twenty
cars each. The second section Of this OUTFIT
| contains one of the principal parts OF the
! circus. The families include Mrs Alice
Elephant and Baby Boo named for Bara-
boo, Wis, her birthplace; Mrs. Peruvian
Llama and Miss Llama, Mrs. Kangaroo
and Baby Kangaroo, Mrs. Leopard and
babies, Mrsl Tigeress and kittens. Mrs.
Lioness and cubs and Mrs Hycna and
baby.
Baby Boo wants to be an actor and is
beginning to find fault with the nursery
life. Her mother is a star performer, and
every chance she gets she will sneak into
the rims to watch and initiate the grown
ups. The baby tigers and lions roll and
frolic about i'm their cages like basket OF
kittens. They bite each others ears and
tails and scratch and smile and spit in
miniature rage. The kangaroo is kind
hearted animal as wild animals go She
wants her baby right close to her all the
time. so she carries him i'm a pouch bas-
ket which nature provided for her. The
baby "kang" stays in this pouch until he
Is big he just tumbles out from mere
size. Mamma has the stylish kangaroo
walk and baby won't be happy until hi
gets II. He props himself up OIL his sturdy
hind legs and tail and waddles along clum
silly, with mamma watching anxiously Il
see that he acquires good form accordinS
to Kangaroo ideas.
The baby Is already learning what power
full muscles are contained In his hind legi
and is attempting little jumps and kicks
His mamma can kill a man with one well
placed kick from her hind leg, and prob
ably baby hopes to knock down an un
wary keeper some day. The baby llama
has big, beseeching eyes and a mild man
ner and likes to be made much of. Their,
are forty grown-up elephants with tn,
show and such rare wild animals as thre
gfraffes, a tapir, a horned horse, a rhin
J oceros, a snow leopard and black panthers
= The street parade of Ringing Bros. will
3 leave the show grounds at twentieth AM
Paul at 10 o'clock Wednesday morning an,
D will move over the usual downtown streets
There are no numbers in the circus pro
y gram which opens with a spectacle, 9TH
Field of the Cloth of Gold" Stage scener
e and lights are Used in this production
e which introduces /, 200 characters, includin
Y a ballet of 800 and a chorus OF 900. Thre
@ hundred and seventy-hve performers m
d terpret the circus acts proper in three ring,
o on two stages and hippodrome track an
I amid forest OF overhangfng appliance.
2. Most OF these performers are new to Amer
T. lea and are celebrities in their home cour
:. tries. Fun is provided by nifty clowns
T. They work in groups at intervals aroun
r the hippodrome track. r
y The circus is to exhibit In Omaha o
e Wednesday, one performance at ocloc
e in the afternoon and one In the evenln
$ beginning at 8 o'clocA Admission and r,
l, served, numbered tickets will be on sal
!" Wednesday at Ringing Bros downtow
s. ONCE at exactly the same prices charge
e on the show grounds. ~