Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1880 — Cost of a Circus. [ARTICLE]

Cost of a Circus.

If you have any idea of going into the circus business, know ye that pn even $60,000 will buy 100 work and ring horses, twenty-nine ponies, five elephants, five royal Bengal tigers, eight hyenas, two lionesses and three cubs, one lion, one jaguar, five panthers, one eland, two peccaries, one hartebeest, two antelopes, one llama, one sacred cow', one elk, one zebra, one camel, one emu, together with sixteen cages for animals in which such animals are kept,

three cages for birds and small animals, two tableau ears, two railroad cars, one band wagon, one small chariot, one dragon chariot, one ticket wagon, six truck wagons, eight circus wagons, nine circus tents, with seats, and clothing for live sleeping cars.