Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1913-09-20

human beings. Bats, ball, mask.
gloves and bases are utilized. II nm
ishes with home run a a critical
moment.
The Mikado's Royal Troupe of lap
anese wrestIers and jiu iitsu experts
are a new feature. These Wild looking
visitors from chrysanthemum land are
built upon the plan OF a square piano,
reinforced by the super structure of
the Lusitania. and their fierce, roar
ing, bustling combats made the stages
tremble.
Another newcomer is Johannes
Josefsson. the champion wrestler OF
Iceland. who demonstrated the China
mode of self defense, in vogue in the
land where the sun comes from since
the eleventh century. He concludes
his thrilling exhibition by rcpelling
the combined attack upon him of
three men armed with revolver, knife
and club.
Victoria Davenport. a dashing sew
enteen-year- Australian girl, is the
star of the rings. She is the only
equestrienne who has ever successful
ly accomplished a forward somersault
from the back of n running horse.
Her feats dumbfounded spectators
here yesterday.
But there are other riders, too, with
names generations old in the circus
world. Fred Derrick, Charles Siegrist
and Orrin Davenport. the conceded
men champions of the world. Ella
Bradna and May and Victoria Davcn-
port performed feats which were the
despair of all feminine imitators.
Mile Lupeta Perea, pride of Mexico
performed the evolutons in midair
which have no like or equal in all the
long history of the circus. The De-
koe family introduced the champion
boy acrobat of the world. Bird Mill
man accomplshes feats on slender,
swaying thread of wire that amazed
all beholders. The Jardys, Weiss
Troupe, The Silvas, the Avallons. and
the Schiavonnis from Italy astonish-
ed in equilibrism. John Ducander in
troduced novel numbers in menage
and Lady Royal illustrated the Won
der-products of patience and skill in
animal training with her statue and
turkey-trot horses. The Imperial
Viennese Troupe and the Six Nea-
politans, in desperately dangerous
and daring aerialism, are collective
and individual gymnasts whose claims
to pre-eminence are not disputed.
Trained animals were in great va
riety and numbers. Balloons. wear
ing boiled shirts and store clothes.
ride bicycles. Geese, dogs, ROSTERS,
donkeys and kangaroos afforded brain
specialists food for reflection. More
than two score disciples of Grimaldi
furnished ceaselessly convulsing non
sense during the three-hour whirl OF
Kaleidoscope activity. 49,
The freaks have returned to the
Barnum & Bailey tents after an abb
sence Of several years and are exhi-
bited this season in vast exposition
Interest in the curious creatures who
seem to be the products of natures
most whimsical moods has proved in
tense everywhere. Zip, sixty-fivt
years old, P. T. Barnum's origina
'What-is-it?' is the dean Of the com
pany and he and his companions com
prise a unique collection of human alb
normalities which for variety ant
completeness has never been excelled
Ada Glare is as heavy as six women o.
ordinary size. Princess Wee Wee II
seventeen inches tall. Captain Tarvel
looms eight feet. Harold Rasmussen
thrusts pins and needles into his face
arms, hands and feet. LaBelle Ca
mile Is human picture gallery, ev
cry inch of her body tatooed will
brilliant indelble designs. Baroness
DeBarcy has the beard of patriarch
Bal Broma has the mysterious powe
| OF defying the elements; fire is foo'
for him. Mile. Clifford possesses tn
| ability to insert in her mouth, throa
and stomach swords bayonets AM
spear swithout injury to herself. 10
Kramer possesses skin as elastic a
rubber. schlitizic Aztecs Uranium !
! the shape Of a pear. :.
More than two score of physlca
prodigies were on view in the Barnnn
q bailey museum. AZ,
At night the Barnum and Bailey en
campment, comprising more than.